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An Open Letter to Don Cherry

Peter Usher November 22, 2019

Dear Don, I watched the clip of your comment directed to “you people” on Hockey Night in Canada. Even if I don’t always like what you have to say, you’ve been a Canadian fixture for a long time, and I like that. And how could I not have at least grudging respect for the guy…
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Remembrance Sunday in England, 10 November 2019

Peter Usher November 11, 2019

Went to the service in Canterbury Cathedral this morning, as we do each year. The impact of this astonishing space, and what goes on in it between 11 and 12 on Remembrance Sunday, does not diminish on me over time. “A British Subject I was born,” with all the good and the not so good…
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Remembering

Writing Joey Jacobson’s War

Peter Usher August 15, 2018

Joey Jacobson was a personable, athletic, and ambitious young man from upper class Westmount. He was the only Jew on McGill’s 1938 intercollegiate champion football team. He volunteered for the air force in the spring of 1940, and he was buried in Europe before his 24thbirthday – one of nearly 10,000 Canadians who died in the…
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My book, Joey Jacobson’s War, was published in January 2018. My website is mostly about the book – what it’s about, how to get it, when and where I will be speaking about it, and how to contact me about it.

I will also write a blog from time to time, as the spirit moves me. Some of my blogs will be about my book and its themes. Some will be about what I have done and seen, spanning my years in the Northwest Territories to what I see around me now in the forests, fields, and waters of the Canadian Shield here in Lanark County, Ontario. Some may be about what I am reading and thinking. All of them will be less frequent when the days are better spent outdoors.