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‘If you live here, this concerns you’: Elbows Up! book of essays out this fall

Plus: condolences for former Conservative MP Guy Lauzon who died on June 22, former Liberal minister Catherine McKenna has a memoir coming out this fall, and a Canadian-made social media platform is migrating to screen near you.

CBC Radio host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, top left, is the editor of a forthcoming book, Elbows Up!, featuring essays by novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald, academic Niigaan Sinclair, author Margaret Atwood, former CBC correspondent Peter Mansbridge, bottom left, filmmaker Atom Egoyan, former broadcaster Carol Off, and ex-Liberal minister Ken Dryden.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, Jake Wright and Stuart Benson, and courtesy of McClelland and Stewart

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

June 30, 2025

“However you feel about ‘Elbows Up’ as a frame, if you live here, this concerns you,” posted broadcaster Elamin Abdelmahmoud on X on June 19 about the forthcoming book he’s edited: Elbows Up! Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance, p...

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