Politics & Current Affairs

The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy

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

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

By Chrystia Freeland

Perhaps the most frequently reported economic trend in recent years is the growth of global inequality and the rise of a super-rich overclass, indelibly dubbed “the one per cent” by the Occupy movement. That said, ... Read More »

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

The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?

By Doug Saunders

In a refreshing break from the past decade’s monotonous stream of Muslim-baiting titles, Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders sets out to demolish what he sees as myths surrounding immigration, Islam, and alleged national security ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection

By Deirdre Kelly

The prevailing image of the ballerina is one of lightness and grace, more a diaphanous swirl of fluid motion than flesh-and-blood woman. She is, for many, an idealized notion of femininity. But her reality is ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk has written extensively on the oil industry; he won the 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil. With his new book, Nikiforuk adds a robustly researched and ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Curiosity of School: Education and the Dark Side of Enlightenment

By Zander Sherman

There is a lot about school that is curious, as Zander Sherman outlines in his provocative examination of the history of formal education. Finnish students, for instance, consistently rank at or near the top of ... Read More »

August 27, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Nasty, Brutish, and Short: The Lives of Gang Members in Canada

By Mark Totten

Initially, it might seem ill-advised to have purloined the title for this book from the most famous passage in Leviathan: a rather modest work on Canadian social policy is, after all, unlikely to share many ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Thieves of Bay Street: How Banks, Brokerages and the Wealthy Steal Billions from Canadians

By Bruce Livesey

During the global economic meltdown of 2008 and the subsequent recession, Canadians maintained an unusually triumphant mood. The apparent strength of the banking system and the absence of a collapse in real estate prices led ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

By Taras Grescoe

With his talent for description and rhythmic prose, it is easy to appreciate the accolades Taras Grescoe has garnered in recent years. Grescoe is the author of four previous books, including Bottomfeeder, a bestseller and ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The End of Growth

By Jeff Rubin

In 1967, when Leonard Cohen sang that the mysterious Suzanne “feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China,” the distance those delicacies had travelled magnified their exoticism. You’re unlikely to find ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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