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Judging from yesterday’s Globe & Mail, Briarpatch indeed has its finger on the pulse of emerging ideas in Canada. Not only was the Saturday Report on Business dubbed “the debt issue” (a topic we covered in some depth in our May 2008 Money & Debt issue), but it featured interviews with both literary icon Margaret Atwood on her new book and forthcoming Massey Lecture Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. and, in the Focus section, with respected public intellectual John Raulston Saul, who also has a new book that will be of interest to Briarpatch readers. Saul’s new book A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada starts from the idea that “Canada is a Métis civilization,” a notion that will ring true to readers of our June/July 2008 “settler/indigenous relations” issue.

Is the Report on Business editor reading Briarpatch? Are Peg and Jack? It would seem that good ol’ Briarpatch is leading the pack.