April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Consider the following miserable assortment of facts: on Amazon you can buy a book entitled The Pimp Game: Instructional Guide by Mickey Royal; enterprising hip-hop stars market energy drinks called “Pimp Juice” and host television ... Read More »
The new book by Hugh Segal, Conservative senator and longtime party operative (including a stint as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s chief of staff), is among the most engaging of the books attempting to situate and ... Read More »
March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Saskatchewan wheat farmer Robert Latimer, the man at the centre of Canada’s most contentious euthanasia trial, is given an extremely sympathetic treatment in this new study. A passionate advocate for more permissive end-of-life legislation, author ... Read More »
January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The role of federalism in building and sustaining democracy, and the necessity for democratic nations to guide autocratic and strife-ridden nations to homegrown versions of federalism, may seem like esoteric topics for a non-academic book. ... Read More »
January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Roméo Dallaire came to global attention for his efforts to stop the Rwandan genocide while serving with the U.N. He also received enormous praise for his book on the subject, Shake Hands with the Devil, ... Read More »
December 13, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
The Trouble with Billionaires isn’t exclusively focused on exposing the problems caused by individuals with buckets of money. It is more concerned with how our culture, our government, and our economic system has allowed a ... Read More »
November 22, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Poet and scholar Wayde Compton’s collection of essays on race in Canada is a refreshing series of investigations into the national myths that have resulted in Canada being dubbed a “post-racial” nation. Focusing on the ... Read More »
November 8, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The first book by The Globe and Mail’s European correspondent promises a vivid globetrotting trip to urban neighbourhoods filled with rural migrants, a demographic reality that, Doug Saunders argues persuasively, is shaping the current century. ... Read More »
November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
That we cannot predict the future with any certainty is not all that shocking a revelation. Nevertheless, Ottawa Citizen columnist Dan Gardner provides an engaging tour through the recent history, science, psychology, and economics of ... Read More »
October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Earlier this year, New York University’s journalism school released a list of the top 10 works of journalism produced in the U.S. since 2000, as voted on by a panel of journalists and educators. If ... Read More »
August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs