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    • To Forgive and Forget? Homonationalism, Hegemony, and History in the Gay Apology
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    • Bodies of Water, Not Bodies of Women: Canadian Media Images of the Idle No More Movement
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    • Debating Canada’s Future: A Night at Montreal’s Sohmer Park, 1892
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    • So What Is the Story – Canadian History Round Table
    • The History of the Recent: Reflections on Social Movement History, Research Methods and the Rapid Passage of Time
    • Undetermined by Borders: The Commonality of Counting
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    • Synthesizing or Fragmenting What? Nation, Race, and the Writing of Canadian History in English
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    • The re-writing of history: The misuse of the draft “dodger” myth against Iraq war resisters in Canada
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    • Reviewing Booze: A Distilled History by Craig Heron
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