Politics & Current Affairs

Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada

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

The Tristan Chord

By Bettina von Kampen

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

The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime

By Declan Hill

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

Who Killed Jackie Bates? Murder and Mystery During the Great Depression

By Bill Waiser

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

Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

By Andrew Nikiforuk

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

A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada

By John Ralston Saul

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

The Absolute Violation: Why Torture Must Be Prohibited

By Richard Matthews

It’s a sad comment on the human condition that moral issues thought to have been settled by the grim experience of history are frequently dredged up and reopened for debate. Take, for example, the recent ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

By Margaret Atwood

The evidence is in: Margaret Atwood simply sees more clearly than the rest of us. In her five-part 2008 Massey Lectures, the author applies her familiar cultural X-ray vision to dark material. Debt is usually ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar

By Monia Mazigh; Patricia Claxton and Fred A. Reed, trans.

On Sept. 26, 2002, Monia Mazigh’s life changed forever. Her husband, Maher Arar, had cut short his vacation with his family in Tunis to return to Ottawa for work, flying home via Zürich and New ... Read More »

November 10, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP

By Paul Palango

Paul Palango has a lot of material to work with in his new book about the ineptitude, incompetence, and, in some cases, outright corruption of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Having drifted far from the ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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