Politics & Current Affairs

Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge

By Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard, and Nick Rivers

Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson and Simon Fraser University profs Marc Jaccard and Nic Rivers go to town with this look at Canada’s abysmal record on climate change. They’re mostly preaching to the eco-choir ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power

By Tom Flanagan

Harper’s Team is a lively and intriguing firsthand account of Stephen Harper’s rise to power, as well as a valuable historical document that does not pretend to be unbiased. With an infectious excitement about the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Art of the Possible: A Handbook for Political Activism

By Amanda Sussman

The title, as well as the content, of Amanda Sussman’s guide to lobbying the federal government neatly demonstrates just how far we’ve come since the heady days of the 1960s, when “Be Realistic, Demand the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide

By Laura Murray, Sam Trosow

Canadian Copyright is a timely but risky book. Its arrival falls smack between the Liberals’ failed attempt to revamp Canadian copyright law and the rumblings of an imminent Conservative foray into the same territory. If ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

By Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes EverythingDon Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams; $32.50 cloth 978-1-59184-138-8, Portfolio/Penguin, Jan. Wikinomics is a thoroughly researched survey of 21st-century digital success stories that makes a compelling case for the transformative power ... Read More »

October 4, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

American Power: Potential and Limits in the 21st Century

By Rudyard Griffiths and Patrick Luciani, eds.

American Power gathers together seven transcribed “talks” from the first two seasons of the invitation-only Grano Speakers Series, held in an upscale Toronto restaurant over the past few years. The list of speakers is extraordinary ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq

By Gwynne Dyer

Books attempting to explain “what went wrong” in Iraq (to borrow the title of a canonical neo-conservative text on the Middle East) are getting to be very thick on the ground. Indeed, The Mess They ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Unlucky to the End: The Story of Janise Marie Gamble

By Richard W. Pound

Dick Pound is probably best known to Canadians as the former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee and later the crusading head of the World Anti-Doping Agency. He also finds the time to serve as ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By Naomi Klein

In Dr. Seuss’s story “The Sneetches,” the star-bellied Sneetches discriminate against those plain-bellied Sneetches with “none upon thars.” That is, until arch-capitalist Sylvester Monkey McBean rolls into town with a machine that puts stars on ... Read More »

August 30, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Young Thugs: Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs

By Michael C. Chettleburgh

According to criminal justice consultant and youth gang expert Michael Chettleburgh, every Canadian city has, or will soon have, a problem with youth gangs. He shows us the statistics: 62 gangs, with over 1,100 members, ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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