Book on Order of Canada recipients profiles those not just desiring a better country, but working towards it

The Hill Times takes a look at five of the past Order of Canada recipients profiled in the new book.

Order of Canada award recipient Aaju Peter is one of 50 honourees profiled in a new book, They Desire a Better Country: The Order of Canada in 50 Stories.Photograph courtesy of Michelle Valberg

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

June 26, 2017

Dressed in a sealskin amauti, her face and hands adorned with traditional tattoos, Inuit activist Aaju Peter’s spark and resolve aren’t lost in translation on the page, as one of several Order of Canada recipients celebrated in a book released earlier this year titled They Desire a Better Co...

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