Politics & Current Affairs

Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World’s Most Notorious Mayor

In the realm of Toronto municipal politics, the months between May 2013 and Oct. 2014 resembled a conflation of Shakespearean political drama and Marx Brothers farce. Every day seemed to bring new revelations about extra-curricular ... Read More »

November 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford

By John Filion

The saga of Rob Ford, the unlikely and unfathomable former Toronto mayor, is the rare political story that fascinates long after it has effectively ended. Ford, who is fighting cancer, is out of the international ... Read More »

November 2, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

By Dan Gardner; Philip E. Tetlock

In 2010, Dan Gardner published Future Babble, a fascinating look at the often dodgy business of expert predictions. Much of the scientific core of the book was derived from the research of Philip Tetlock, himself ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun

By A.J. Somerset

Earlier this year, a YouTube clip of comedian Jim Jefferies talking about gun control in America went viral (the clip has since been taken down due to a copyright claim). Jefferies, an Australian, took direct ... Read More »

September 21, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption

By Brian Gorman

MacEwan University assistant professor of communication Brian Gorman argues that the Internet and the 2008 economic downturn had deleterious effects on ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada

By Robert Bothwell

University of toronto history professor Robert Bothwell traverses Seymour Lipsett territory in his new examination of how two countries so close in proximity can have developed in such divergent ways, concluding that “Canada oscillates on ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Disarming Conflict: Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield

By Ernie Regehr

“Peace, no less than politics, is the art of the possible.” So writes Ernie Regehr, activist and founder of Project Ploughshares, in his new book about the futility of trying to solve global conflicts through ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada’s Lost Promise and One Girl’s Dream

By Charlie Angus

The new book by NDP MP Charlie Angus is actually worthy of all of the positive clichés of non-fiction book reviewing. The subject matter is important. The story is at times inspiring, at other times ... Read More »

August 24, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Stephen Harper

By John Ibbitson

A series of curious adjectives pepper the first half of John Ibbitson's biography of Stephen Harper. “Calm.” “Measured.” “Reasonable.” These are not, safe to say, words that are commonly applied to Canada’s 22nd prime minister, ... Read More »

August 17, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Generation Rising: The Time of the Québec Student Spring

By Shawn Katz

According to the authors of two new books about Quebec’s Maple Spring – the headline-generating student mobilization of 2012 – mainstream media was generally unsympathetic, if not outright hostile, to the movement, leaving citizens poorly ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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