Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense

Earlier this year, Virgin Atlantic removed a word from its in-flight menu and apologized for any offence it may have caused after some passengers threatened to boycott the airline. The offending word? Palestinian. It was ... Read More »

April 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

By Elaine Craig

Sexual assault victims contemplate the legal system with foreboding, their instincts for self-preservation sharpened by the experience of sexual assault itself. The punishing cross-examinations of victims in sexual assault trials are well known. Progressive changes ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

By David Frum

David Frum is a conservative. He has been affiliated with both the right-wing U.K. think tank Policy Exchange and the American Enterprise Institute, and was a senior adviser to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Edging Forward: Achieving Sustainable Community Development

By Ann Dale

With a constant stream of newsfeed images showing communities caught up in extreme weather events – catastrophic floods, droughts, and wildfires – juxtaposed against increasingly outrageous political stories and fake news, it’s often difficult to ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction

By Travis Lupick

Vancouver’s Downtown eastside might qualify as ground zero for drug addiction in Canada – the locus for everything from heroin and crack cocaine to crystal meth, Oxycontin, and fentanyl. Travis Lupick, a journalist with experience ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs

Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming – in Alberta, and in Ottawa

By Kevin Taft

For all the wealth they potentially possess, Alberta’s vast petroleum reserves have proved a mixed blessing at best. Even the industry’s staunchest defenders have to concede that the laborious extraction of oil from sand has ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands

By Chris Turner

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough

By Doug Saunders

You might expect the country’s 150th birthday to be an occasion for books celebrating Canada’s past, but a couple of new titles take the opportunity to consider the country’s future instead. This may be fortuitous ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Could It Happen Here?: Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

By Michael Adams

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey

By Payam Akhavan

When Payam Akhavan casually comments, midway through In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey, that he spent his youth “making history,” he’s not pulling a Trump, but stating a fact. The McGill ... Read More »

September 6, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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