March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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 »
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 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
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
Given the state of the world over the last seven-plus years, it is worthwhile to hear from the voices in Belonging and Banishment, a new collection of essays edited by University of Ottawa law professor ... Read More »
January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In The Tristan Chord, Bettina von Kampen brings opera’s heightened aesthetic and drama to the quieter, more realistic realm of the novel. The title comes from the first chord of Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, ... Read More »
December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
One of the more mystifying aspects of soccer is how a low-contact sport that so disdains physical toughness has attracted a fan base whose violent criminality far exceeds that of those who worship, say, the ... Read More »
December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
At the outset of Who Killed Jackie Bates?, University of Saskatchewan history professor Bill Waiser seems to make it pretty clear that Jackie’s parents, Ted and Rose, murdered their seven-year-old son in cold blood in ... Read More »
December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
For the better part of their history, the Alberta tar sands have been out of sight and out of mind for most Canadians. A thinly populated wilderness and (in the words of one early bitumen ... Read More »
December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The title of John Ralston Saul’s newest book, A Fair Country, sounds like a rejected Liberal Party campaign slogan, but its contents are much more combative, provocative, and stimulating than anything likely to be uttered ... Read More »
December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs