Good morning, and welcome to the weekend. Grab your cup of coffee or tea, and sit down with a selection of this week’s great reads from The Globe. In this issue, we present an excerpt from A Nation’s Paper: The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada, a collection of history essays from current and former Globe writers all about the newspaper’s lasting impact on this country. The excerpt dives into the life and work of The Globe’s founder, George Brown, his rivalry with fellow father of Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald, and how their reconciliation saved the Canadian...