Politics & Current Affairs

In Defiance

By Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

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: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle

By Brad Evans; Henry A. Giroux

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

Mayors Gone Bad

By Philip Slayton

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

★ The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet

By Sheila Watt-Cloutier

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

Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy

By Anna Porter

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

★ The Last Bonobo: A Journey into the Congo

By Deni Béchard

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

Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Agenda

By Brooke Jeffrey

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 »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

#IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada

By Ken Coates

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

Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call

By Arthur Manuel; Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson

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

The Carbon Bubble: What Happens to Us When It Bursts

By Jeff Rubin

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

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