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Sudan in one of the places in conflict from which we must not turn away. (UNHCR)

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It Can Happen Here

Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939. A 30-foot-tall portrait of George Washington is flanked by American flags and swastikas. (New York Daily News Archives)

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Not so Innocent Abroad

Canada House in London where some of the action is set. (Public Archives Canada).

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Missing Pieces Fall Into Place

Before the war: Edward Switocz, in back with his father Piotr, his sister Jadzia and mother Juliana. They are walking on a Warsaw Street. (Courtesy of Alice Switocz Goldbloom)

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A Big Hand for Small Books

Some skinny books on my bookshelf.

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  • Bryan Demchinsky

    Former Montreal Gazette editor. Still writing, still editing.

  • David Goldbloom

    I'm a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto who has retired from clinical practice and academic hospital life - so now I have more time to write.

  • Steve Eadie

    Steve lives and writes in Hamilton ,Ontario. He has known Bryan since university when we lived across the hall from each other in residence and then shared an apartment. But that's another story.

  • Barbara Black

    Barbara Black Is a writer, broadcaster and museum docent in Dorval, Quebec.

  • Marianne Ackerman

    Montreal-based writer of journalism, plays, novels and short stories. Her new novel Oyster will be published by Dundurn Press in February.

  • Joe Neuhaus

    Joseph Neuhaus is a Montreal-based IT consultant specializing in enterprise software systems.

  • Joe Neuhaus

    A software architect with over thirty years of experience in business-to-business systems, machine learning, and technical management.

  • Cynthia Davis

    Cynthia Davis is a retired art therapist who finds meaning in creative expression in diverse media including painting, film, ceramics and writing.

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