Book Notes: Karen Dubinsky on Cuba

Queen's University historian Karen Dubinsky has a new book out: Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters. It's an exploration of many Canadian networks of contact with Cuba during the long American crusade against the island: everything from engineering to cattle breeding to salsa music. It includes her own contacts: Dubinsky has co-taught a course at the University of Havana for years and has visited constantly.

The Canadian government does not seem to think Cuban survival in the face of Trump holds much value, but over the decades a lot of Canadians have seen it differently.