Terry Glavin is an author, editor and journalist. Currently a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post, Terry is the author of seven books and the co-author of three. His assignments in recent years have taken him to Afghanistan, Israel, the Russian Far East, the Eastern Himalayas, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Geneva, China and Central America. His books have been published in Canada, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. He has won more than a dozen literary and journalism awards, including the Hubert Evans Prize and several National Magazine Awards, and the B.C. Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. Terry’s most recent book is Come From the Shadows: The Long and Lonely Struggle For Peace in Afghanistan.
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- A glorious stubbornness: Ireland’s islands and islanders
- Remembering our Cantonese Forebears: Looking for Mr. Bing
- THE RETURN OF THE MEDEEK
- “The Israelites in Victoria are a large and highly respectable body.”
- A Liberal Hopeful’s Unseemly Syrian Political Associations
- At Last, on Anti-Terror Law, the NDP’s Mulcair Starts to Shine.
- Canada, China and the Foreign Investment Protection Racket
- Dear Alan Borovoy: Please come back. We need you.
- It’s All Bibi’s Fault? Right. Pull the Other One.
- On Bill C-51: Yes, Democracy Can Be Corrupted by Totalitarianism.
- On war and peace, there’s nothing “progressive” about the NDP
- Reaping the whirlwind of our unseemly intimacies in Beijing
- Shock and Awe: Yes or No?
- The Case Against Modi is the Case Against Mother India
- The Courtship of China’s Princelings Made Vancouver Canada’s Unhappiest City
- The Enduring Awkwardness of the Komagata Maru
- The Lonesome Death of Makayla Sault
- The Long Slog of Emancipation: Tá, Comhionannas.
- The Most Aggravating Thing About John Baird.
- The Quagmire of Parliament’s “Mission Extension” Debate
- The questions Ottawa doesn’t want us asking about rotten yuan in Canadian real estate
- Tom Mulcair Among the Townies: Sticking to his Strong Suit
- Tory tokens, NDP in fright, & Justin Trudeau? Narcissism on Methamphetamines
- Ataturk Boulevard: Off-Ramp for the ‘Jihadi Highway’
- In Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan: “Where Is The World?”
- Syrian Patriot Leader George Sabra: “The whole world is against us.”
- THE FATE OF THE KURDS: NO FRIENDS BUT THE MOUNTAINS
- The PRIMARY COMBATANTS
- The SYRIAN EXODUS: JORDAN
- THE YAZIDI POGROM: TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
- WITH THE KURDS FIGHTING THE ISLAMIC STATE IN SYRIA
- Collaborations & Co-authorships
- Come From The Shadows
- Dead Reckoning: Confronting the Crisis in Pacific Fisheries
- Death Feast in Dilmahamid
- Ghost in the Water
- The Last Great Sea
- THIS RAGGED PLACE: TRAVELS ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE
- Waiting for the Macaws
Terry Glavin 
Mr. Glavin –
Your work on the China file is indispensable. I have come to believe over the last few years that this is an existential issue for Canada. It is more important than climate change, than pipelines, than Quebec. And the knobs in charge seem completely oblivious. It is no accident that the US has still not opened its border to us, no accident that Keystone was cancelled, no accident that Biden (Joe frigging Biden!) openly scorns my country and courts the Aussies.
Don’t let up on these fools. This national project, 150 years in, is on perilous ground now.
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Putin is winning
Very sad but BRILLIANT article, thank you for an intelligent read
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