Politics & Current Affairs

The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country

The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, so we can expect a flood of flag-waving, chest-thumping museum exhibitions, television documentaries, and books devoted to the subject. Chances ... Read More »

September 27, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Down the Drain: How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources

By Ralph Pentland and Chris Wood

Except for hundreds of First Nations communities perpetually suffering under boil-water alerts, it’s doubtful most Canadians know much about the source and safety of their tap water. That will change if they read Down the ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Ballad of Jacob Peck

By Debra Komar

On a cold winter night in 1805, a New Brunswick farmer named Amos Babcock stabbed his sister to death in a fit of religious fervour that may have been inspired by the hellfire sermons of ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ascent of Women: Our Turn, Our Way – A Remarkable Story of Worldwide Change

By Sally Armstrong

Journalist, activist, and author Sally Armstrong’s latest book tells the stories of women around the globe who create change in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Armstrong spares no detail in describing the violent crimes ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?

By Neil Gross

The new book by University of British Columbia sociology professor Neil Gross sets itself quite the challenge in its title. The answers to this double-barrelled question, after all, appear complicated enough to justify devoting more ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why

By Donald J. Savoie

For the last 30 years, politicians throughout the Anglo-American world have inveighed against big government in the name of greater efficiency, while governments have simultaneously become bloated and less efficient. In an attempt to shed ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

By Edward Keenan

Invoking Toronto’s recent history alongside its more distant past, political observer Edward Keenan, an editor at the city’s alt-weekly newspaper The Grid, has written a succinct, accessible book that brings some much needed context to ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Honour on Trial: The Shafia Murders and the Culture of Honour Killings

By Paul Schliesmann

Listening to the tragic news story in the summer of 2009, it was clear that something was very wrong. A car containing the bodies of four women had been found submerged in a lock station ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change

By Stephen Collis

When poet and professor Stephen Collis sat down in 2011 to write a book about how political change happens, he had no idea his plans would be broadsided by the Occupy movement. Enticed to become ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Power Trap: How Fear and Loathing Between New Democrats and Liberals Keep Stephen Harper in Power – and What Can Be Done About It

By Paul Adams

In September, at a conference in Boulder, Colorado, a couple dozen academics crowded into a room to listen to Canadian university professors describe the Harper government’s disastrous energy and environmental policies. The audience was told ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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