Articles By Lee Skallerup Bessette

The International Office

The beautiful kaleidoscope of international The Office adaptations: exploring culturally specific versions of white male managerial toolishness.

Slugging

Salting the Roads

My Airport: YUL

Having grown up in Dorval, my attitude was always, Look, you knew where you were buying your house.

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My Dictator: Jean Chrétien

Whenever I told people that my great-grandmother taught him English, they would joke that she hadn’t done a very good job.

The Whites of Quebec

How could anyone think white Canadians playing the roles of slaves was a good idea?

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Chlorine

A little to drink, a bit more to swim, a lot to kill.

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Pure Laine

There is a toxic purity myth lurking behind the image of socially progressive Quebec.