They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

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: Why Too Much Money at the Top Is Bad for Everyone

By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

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

★ After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region

By Wayde Compton

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

Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World

By Doug Saunders

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

Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe Them Anyway

By Dan Gardner

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

★ The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth About Mulroney, Schreiber, and the Airbus Scandal

By Harvey Cashore

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

The Canadian Century: Moving out of America’s Shadow

By Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens, and Niels Veldhuis

The Canadian Century is tantamount to a manifesto for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a policy think tank for which lead author Brian Lee Crowley serves as managing director. It is a political tract that, at points, ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard

By Valerie Fortney

On May 17, 2006, at approximately 7 p.m. Afghanistan time, Forward Observation Officer Captain Nichola Goddard earned a tragic place in Canadian history: she became the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat. Although ... Read More »

August 16, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America

By Derek Lundy

The events of 9/11 changed the borderlands of the U.S. irrevocably. The longest undefended border in the world is disappearing, soon to be a memory. The Land of the Free is quickly becoming Fortress America, ... Read More »

June 14, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research In Motion

By Rod McQueen

Rod McQueen’s new book features a foreword by tech giants Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, co-CEOs of the Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion. Typically, this would mean that the main figures in the book have, ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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