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Take the Torchis a compelling memoir from one ofBC's most widely accomplished and animated politicians, Ian Waddell,QC. Waddell takes us on a journey through his life and career as a storefront lawyer, anNDPMember of Parliament, a Minister of Culture, a writer, a teacher, a film producer and moredelivering a smart, humorous, endearing and impossible-to-forget exploration of publiclife.

Waddell endeavours to pass on some of the lessons I learned about setting goals for social change and the methods to use to get there debating, protesting, and marching to biting dogs' at press conferences (following the old adage dog bites man is not a story; man bites dog is a headline'), writing op-ed pieces for newspapers, getting elected, taking on prime ministers, dictators and kings, grabbing maces, lobbying diplomats in the lobby of the United Nations, and bucking your ownparty. Waddell got his start through his involvement as a young lawyer, from an immigrant family, in both th

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      Publisher Nightwood Editions
      Published 11 April 2019
      ISBN-13 9780889713475
      978-0889713475
      ISBN-10 0889713472
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      Book Synopsis

      Take the Torchis a compelling memoir from one ofBC's most widely accomplished and animated politicians, Ian Waddell,QC. Waddell takes us on a journey through his life and career as a storefront lawyer, anNDPMember of Parliament, a Minister of Culture, a writer, a teacher, a film producer and moredelivering a smart, humorous, endearing and impossible-to-forget exploration of publiclife.

      Waddell endeavours to pass on some of the lessons I learned about setting goals for social change and the methods to use to get there debating, protesting, and marching to biting dogs' at press conferences (following the old adage dog bites man is not a story; man bites dog is a headline'), writing op-ed pieces for newspapers, getting elected, taking on prime ministers, dictators and kings, grabbing maces, lobbying diplomats in the lobby of the United Nations, and bucking your ownparty. Waddell got his start through his involvement as a young lawyer, from an immigrant family, in both th

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