Politics & Current Affairs

Blue Thunder: The Truth About Conservatives from Macdonald to Harper

Conservative Party insider Bob Plamondon’s new book, Blue Thunder, promises to tell “the truth” about all the leaders throughout the Tories’ various incarnations. The truth, according to Plamondon, is that party leaders who managed to ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

By Jeff Rubin

For more than 20 years, Jeff Rubin has been known as one of Canada’s top economists, and a major voice for the energy sector. In Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places

By Terry Gould

When one hears of a journalist dying in pursuit of a story, one immediately imagines some strafed and cratered combat zone. But as investigative writer Terry Gould is quick to point out in his new ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights

By Ezra Levant

At a time when Canada’s police and CSIS are implicated in the arrest, rendition, and torture in foreign prisons of Muslim Canadians, while the current Prime Minister refuses to intervene on their behalf, there are ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A History of Canadian Culture

By Jonathan F. Vance

As a rejoinder to those critics who find Canadian culture boring (or non-existent), Jonathan Vance’s ambitious, insightful new book provides proof that this country has a rich and often under-appreciated cultural heritage. Defining “culture” as ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Blowback: A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home

By Chris Arsenault

Most people associate the deadly chemical defoliant Agent Orange with the U.S. war in Vietnam. But freelance journalist Chris Arsenault has uncovered a disturbing Canadian connection that paints a portrait of human and environmental devastation ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future

By Thomas Homer-Dixon, ed.

In these early years of the 21st century there are two related challenges facing human civilization. As the global economy continues to grow and consume more energy, what happens when we start running out of ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It

By Victor Malarek

In Canada, it’s nice to pretend that prostitution isn’t the dangerous social ill it used to be. For one thing, this country no longer has any prostitutes. It now boasts “sex workers” who march into ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The World and Darfur: International Responses to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan

By Amanda F. Grzyb, ed.

The ongoing crisis in Darfur confronts us with the remarkable phenomenon of scholars, anthropologists, legal minds, and activists documenting a lengthy genocide-in-progress, with all parties seemingly powerless to stop the carnage. How can such intolerable ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism

By Joseph Heath

Like many things around us, the free-market system is a mechanism we blithely ignore until something goes wrong with it. So it’s no surprise that the recent economic downturn has also seen a rise in ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Blue Thunder: The Truth About Conservatives from Macdonald to Harper

Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places

Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights

A History of Canadian Culture

Blowback: A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future

The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It

The World and Darfur: International Responses to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan

Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism

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