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Coverage of the issue in The Mark News

 

http://www.themarknews.com/articles/7190-race-canoes-and-astonishing-ignorance

 

From: Andrew Baldwin
Sent: 23 October 2011 00:07
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Subject: Globe and Mail columnist attacks Canadian academic geography

 

Here's the article. This kind of polemical garbage is Wente's bread and butter, but this represents a new low...

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/they-hijacked-the-humanities-then-my-canoe/article2209828/

 

you can download the chapter in question from the UBC website here: http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173304

 

the original Wente column we cite is here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/how-i-became-a-real-canadian/article1199231/

 

Incidentally, Pierre Berton never said 'A Canadian is someone who knows how to have sex in a canoe.' It's 'common knowledge' that this quote belongs to Berton but he's on record as saying that he never actually did. 

 

 

Andrew Baldwin
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