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JACQUES POITRAS is a journalist and author of five books of non-fiction, including Irving vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won't Tell, a national best-seller shortlisted for the National Business Book Award; and Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future, shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the John W. Dafoe Book Prize. He is also the author of The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy, and Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border. Poitras lives in Fredericton and has been the provincial affairs reporter for CBC News in New Brunswick since 2000. ...more

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Irving vs Irving

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This book was for sale ahead of its official publication date. It's excellent. The women who were determined to put this league together come across as kind, determined, principled -- just excellent people all around. Karissa Donkin tells the story w ...more
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The Road to Confederation by Donald Grant Creighton
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This is a gripping account of the negotiations that led to Confederation, with zestily drawn portraits of the colourful characters who made it happen. The portrayals of Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, and of George B ...more
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Sir John A. Macdonald by Patrice Dutil
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This book is described as a balanced account, and I was open to a re-balancing of the John A. debate of the last several years. Dutil paints a persuasive picture of Macdonald as more modern than we think and as bringing all his political skills to be ...more
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A very entertaining read. Not quite as suspenseful as Macintrye's The Spy and the Traitor or A Spy Among Friends, but if you enjoyed those, you'll still like this. ...more
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“Neil Reynolds was one of the best persons who ever went through that place down there," J.K. reflected when he spoke to me two decades later.
"We liked him a great deal," interjected J.K.'s son Jim.
"The guy had great talent, great vision," J.K. added. "Mr. Reynolds hit the ball out of the ballpark."
In August of 1994, Neil Reynolds was fired.”
Jacques Poitras, Irving vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won't Tell

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