Politics & Current Affairs

Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb

As Canada’s ambassador to the United States from 1981–89, Allan Gotlieb developed a new strategy to accommodate the diffuse power system in Washington. Gotlieb distinguished himself by transforming the Canadian embassy into a networking hub, ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art

By Joshua Knelman

In Hot Art, which expands on an essay that originally appeared in The Walrus, journalist Joshua Knelman takes an in-depth look at the big business of art theft. His method is straightforward: interviewing investigators and ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca

By Carol Bishop-Gwyn

Back in the 1990s, when the first biography of Celia Franca was attempted, the haughty ballet diva snatched half the advance money the publisher gave to author Frank Rasky and demanded “complete control” over the ... Read More »

December 12, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Writing the Revolution

By Michele Landsberg

While second-wave feminism had been mounting for more than a decade by the mid-1970s, there was scant evidence of it in mainstream Toronto media. For “libber” news, you needed to seek out Broadside, Toronto’s feminist ... Read More »

November 28, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border

By Jacques Poitras

Most modern North American works of political science and political history – both academic and popular – focus on two interrelated themes: security and sovereignty. Added to those preoccupations in the decade since 9/11 is ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944–1965

By Max Nemni and Monique Nemni; George Tombs, trans.

Trudeau Transformed is the follow-up to the 2006 bio Young Trudeau by husband-and-wife team Max and Monique Nemni, taking the enigmatic and controversial “son of Quebec” and “father of Canada” from the shock of attending ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Rock & Roll Literacy

By Sigmund Brouwer

Sigmund Brouwer has written some 19 novels for both the adult and YA markets, as well as numerous fiction series for early readers. Rock & Roll Literacy, a companion to his popular school presentation of ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid

By Samantha Nutt

Angry, impassioned essays are not the general currency of Canadian non-fiction, so it’s refreshing that physician Samantha Nutt breaks the mould with her forthright attack on militarism and misguided aid efforts that exacerbate the poverty ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa

By Gary Geddes

Prolific B.C. author Gary Geddes, whose literary peregrinations have for decades landed him in countless war zones and sites of human misery, brings to his latest work of non-fiction the veteran traveller’s wise insights and ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Among the Truthers: A Journey into the Growing Conspiracist Underground of 9/11 Truthers, Birthers, Armageddonites, Vaccine Hysterics, Hollywood Know-Nothings, and Internet Addicts

By Jonathan Kay

The truth is out there ... and so are the truthers. National Post editor Jonathan Kay uses this label, originally derived from the 9/11 Truth Movement, to designate conspiracists of all stripes, not just those ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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