An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.

America is more open to an authoritarian form of government than Canada – because the American Constitution has never been as awesome as it has been made out to be

What are the prospects for keeping democracy alive in Canada? Another great topic – Aug. 29, 2023 MCHS picnic in Toronto

Former students have shared some great new comments regarding 1950s and 1960s-era Cartierville and Elmgrove Schools in Montreal

Notes on a Writer’s Life: A Memoir (2023) by David Adams Richard is an excellent read

CBC The Current – Link to Monday August 21, 2023 Episode Transcript (John Vaillant interview plus a great podcast)

Update: biography of Einer Boberg (1935-1995), who co-founded – with Deborah Kully – a world-class stuttering treatment centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1986

Stuttering treatment methods: Uniform prolongation of syllables gives rise to a slow monotone; another method gives rise to the speech rate and expressiveness of normally fluent speakers

The careful, conservative language of science provided the springboard for a powerful, multi-decade, anti-science public relations campaign promoting catastrophic humanly enhanced combustion