September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
“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 »
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
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
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
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
Disposable Futures is a political and philosophical manifesto of sorts, but it is not always easy to follow. This is mainly because it is primarily constructed as an academic work, with roots in French critical ... Read More »
August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
For someone who has spent a chunk of his book-writing career fixating on terrible lawyers (2008’s Lawyers Gone Bad), interventionist judges (2012’s Mighty Judgment, about the Supreme Court of Canada), and now terrible mayors, Philip ... Read More »
August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Reflecting on a girlhood spent in the Arctic town of Kuujjuaq, Sheila Watt-Cloutier describes herself as “a cautious child who didn’t like taking big risks.” That characterization may seem surprising coming from an Inuk woman ... Read More »
June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment
It’s telling that the only reference to a serious critique of George Soros in Anna Porter’s new book about the mogul-philanthropist comes in the final pages. Sure, there are references to Glenn Beck’s anti-Semitic attacks ... Read More »
June 18, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs
To tell the story of Earth’s last wild bonobos – along with chimpanzees, humankind’s closest genetic relatives – author Deni Béchard travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Bonobo Conservation Institute, a small ... Read More »
June 11, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment