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Alastair Gillespie’s MADE IN CANADA – reviewed in Globe and Mail and Literary Review of Canada

“Gillespie became … the voice of economic nationalism, responsible under the Foreign Investment Review Act to screen foreign investment, requiring that it provide ‘significant benefit to Canada.’ He regrets bitterly that later governments, Progressive Conservative and Liberal, ‘emasculated’ FIRA. The book’s greatest contribution is his passionate plea that the federal government use its powers of intervention to develop and retain multinational head offices in Canada.” William Johnson, Globe and Mail, February 27, 2010

“Trudeau was an enigma, even to his senior ministers. He gave his Cabinet members a large degree of autonomy, a latitude that must seem strange in Stephen Harper’s Ottawa. Trudeau was suspicious of nationalism, but sensitive to the political situation in the early 1970s and willing to experiment with moderate measures to deal with the challenges posed by the multinational firms.…
    … Gillespie succeeded in promoting both nationalism and good business principles. He bridged the divide by being neither a typical nationalist nor a typical businessperson. Today, in Stephen Harper’s Canada, that brand of nationalism is a moribund force.”
Stephen Azzi, Literary Review of Canada, May 2010

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LATEST NEWS ABOUT ROBIN BRASS STUDIO BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Military units, like families, have ancestors. Thus many modern regiments perpetuate the memory of earlier units that served in the two world wars and before, and they bear on their colours the battle honours of these earlier conflicts. Why then cannot Canadian regiments officially recognize their links with regiments that served in the War of 1812? For the answer see this YouTube clip.

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Author Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail chosen Maverick of the Year by Chatelaine Magazine.

Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, author of For the Love of Flying was chosen Maverick of the Year 2011, an award richly deserved for her energy and initiative. For more information go to www.daniellemc.com/2011/10/chatelaines-maverick-of-the-year/

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Jonathon Riley lecture and book signing
Jonathon Riley, author of A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock, appeared at Fort George, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, on Saturday, October 15, 2011, on his recent visit to Canada. Also on the itinerary were events at Brock University and Fort York.

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James Elliott’s Strange Fatality wins major provincial award.

Strange Fatality wins J. J. Talman Award
The Ontario Historical Society has announced that James Elliott’s Strange Fatality has won the 2010 J. J. Talman Award for the best book on Ontario’s social, economic, political and cultural history. The judges’ citation reads in part: “Well researched, well written and well illustrated, Strange Fatality brings to life the Battle of Stoney Creek, one of the most decisive reversals of military fortune in the War of 1812 that, in no small measure, determined the fate of the colony that would become the Province of Ontario.” For the full OHS press release, click here.

Strange Fatality wins Hamilton Literary Award
James Elliott’s acclaimed War of 1812 book, Strange Fatality, won the non-fiction book prize in the 17th Annual Hamilton Literary Awards. The award was made November 15, 2010, by Arts Hamilton in a ceremony at Theatre Aquarius. Elliott’s study of the Battle of Stoney Creek has been widely praised on both sides of the border for showing how a largely-forgotten action in June 1813 changed the course of the war and quite likely saved the future province of Ontario. Elliott’s revelations on the neglect of soldiers’ remains on the battlefield were instrumental in convincing municipal politicians to approve a major reinterment project set for 2011.

Toronto Public Library “Keep Toronto Reading Week 2010”
Councillor Paul Ainslie extols Strange Fatality in this Youtube clip.


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Celebrating the Bard
Earl Chapman and Ian McCulloch celebrated the publication of A Bard of Wolfe’s Army with pipes and drum at the historic Morrin Centre, home of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, on November 18, 2010.

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Donald MacKay’s Safe Passage reviewed in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald: "What present-day journalist wouldn't envy Donald MacKay's career? Over the course of a 65-year stint in the news business, he covered the repressive Salazar dictatorship in Portugal, Franco's fascist regime in Spain, the Hungarian revolution crushed by the Soviets in 1956 and China during the Cultural Revolution."

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Dragon Rampant: The Royal Welch Fusiliers at War, 1793-1815 is the latest book from Canadian author Donald E. Graves and an important addition to Napoleonic military history.

“Donald Graves has an entertaining and engaging style of writing….” Soldier Magazine [more reviews]

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