May 31, 2022 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Social Sciences
A balm for despair, Rehearsals for Living is an epistolary dialogue between Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that takes stock of our collapsing society and imagines what we might build from the wreckage. Over ... Read More »
It’s been challenging to read during this global pandemic; I’ve lost my attention span for anything beyond a long-form essay or some short stories, so when I was asked to review two books about “the ... Read More »
January 4, 2022 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Rinaldo Walcott locates his contribution to the Field Notes series on current issues, On Property, in the present political moment, while using historical references and events to argue for the abolition of police and property. ... Read More »
May 10, 2021 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s Fighting for a Hand to Hold explores how a policy in Quebec disallowing Indigenous parents to accompany their sick children on medevac flights resulted in significant, actively constructed barriers to care. These barriers ... Read More »
December 14, 2020 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended everything we know. Isolation, fear, and confusion reign; for many, the world no longer makes any sense. Journalist Ethan Lou’s non-fiction debut serves as one possible map for this fog ... Read More »
December 10, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Toronto’s Bruce McArthur was a regular feature in the city’s gay village. He regularly met other local men for purposes of intimacy. When circumstances permitted, he also strangled them to death. The circuitous manhunt that ... Read More »
October 8, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
By now, everybody knows that Francis Fukuyama got it wrong. When he declared, in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, that the fall of the U.S.S.R. and the Berlin Wall ... Read More »
September 28, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
“We’re doomed.” Thomas Homer-Dixon, a university research chair in the faculty of environment at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C., has been ... Read More »
September 14, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
In Take Back the Fight, Quebec City writer and podcaster Nora Loreto has crafted a meticulous look at how we can address barriers in contemporary Canadian feminist organizing. She defines her feminist framework as one ... Read More »
September 3, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
“Today everyone who values cities is disturbed by automobiles,” wrote Jane Jacobs in her 1961 classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities. “At present public transportation languishes, but not from a lack of ... Read More »
June 18, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment