May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs
The latest entry in the swelling ranks of books about the problems with Prime Minister Stephen Harper is Concordia University political science professor Brook Jeffrey’s Dismantling Canada. Like other titles in this category, Jeffrey’s book ... Read More »
Every few years, Canadian complacency is punctured by potent wake-up calls about unresolved indigenous rights issues, from the tense standoff over expansion of a Quebec golf course on traditional burial grounds at Oka to the ... Read More »
May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs
The seminal political scientist Benedict Anderson coined the term “imagined communities” to describe modern nations – political entities so large and diffuse that they are held together not by direct personal ties but by shared ... Read More »
May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs
When Stephen Harper went all-in on his gamble that Canada could become a world-leading oil producer, he set the country up for international environmental pariah status. He also, argues Jeff Rubin, made a dramatic and ... Read More »
May 14, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
A book about the struggle to repatriate Canada’s Constitution in the 1980s has no right to be as entertaining as Frédéric Bastien’s The Battle of London. The journalist and Dawson College history professor created a ... Read More »
February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The life of John F. Kennedy has been examined from so many angles it would seem hard to conjure a fresh perspective on the man. Yet in Two Days in June, author and journalist Andrew ... Read More »
February 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
For many readers, Donald Gutstein’s new book will only serve to fuel fear and loathing for the current prime minister and the way he governs. It describes, in great detail, Harper’s links to the philosophies ... Read More »
December 4, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free is a book that’s very clear about what it is and what it isn’t. What it is: a toolkit for anyone with a stake in making a “creative wage” ... Read More »
November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment
On October 30, 1995, Quebec voters headed to the polls to answer a convoluted question about their future relationship with the rest of Canada. While the political rhetoric cast the vote as a decisive choice ... Read More »
November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The first novel by Vancouver-based playwright Michael Springate is the latest in a small wave of fiction focusing on the fraught relations between the West and the Middle East. A small wave, not because the ... Read More »
November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Politics & Current Affairs