Politics & Current Affairs

Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World

Every Canadian knows the analogy about living next door to the United States: “like sleeping with an elephant,” we are “affected by every twitch and grunt.” The analogy may be well-worn, but the challenge of ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places

By Christopher Pollon

In a disturbing case of the cure possibly proving as deadly as the disease, Christopher Pollon’s Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places provides an eloquent, clear-eyed warning that, absent a radical ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada

By Gabriel Allahdua; with Edward Dunsworth

From John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie’s song “Deportee,” to Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 Harvest of Shame broadcast and Canadian filmmaker Min Sook Lee’s documentary Migrant Dreams, the brutal working and ... Read More »

April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By Quinn Slobodian

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that stripped Walt Disney World of its special zoning – a move critics said was blatant retaliation for Disney’s opposition to DeSantis’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law – ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Business & Economics, History, Politics & Current Affairs

Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Mother’s Ordeal to Free Her Son from a Kurdish Prison

By Sally Lane

In the fall of 2014, Sally Lane’s son called to tell her he was in Syria. Eighteen years old at the time, Jack Letts was a recent convert to Islam and, according to Lane, idealistic ... Read More »

January 25, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Next Supper: The End of  Restaurants as We Knew Them,  and What Comes After

By Corey Mintz

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

On Property

By Rinaldo Walcott

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

★ Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada

By Samir Shaheen-Hussain

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

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