The Duel

JOHN IBBITSON is one of Canada’s best known and most respected journalists and authors. At the Globe and Mail, he served as Washington bureau chief, Ottawa bureau chief, chief political writer and writer-at-large. He co-authored Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline and The Big Shift, both with Darrell Bricker, and is the author of Stephen Harper, the bestselling and award-winning biography of Canada’s 22nd prime minister. He is currently at work on Crucible, a sweeping social history of Canada during World War I, to be published in 2027.