Politics & Current Affairs

Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada

Recent events in the news have rendered Claws of the Panda, the new book by journalist Jonathan Manthorpe, even more timely and important than it might have been mere months ago. In the wake of ... Read More »

January 24, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Power, Prime Ministers and the Press: The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill

By Robert Lewis

Robert Lewis concludes his enjoyable survey of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa by answering a big, complex question in a somewhat obvious and simplistic way. “Does the press gallery still matter?” Lewis asks. His ... Read More »

November 22, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption

By Stephen J. Harper

“I do not want this book to focus too much on Donald Trump,” writes former prime minister Stephen Harper at the outset of his new volume on conservatism in the 21st century and the future ... Read More »

November 19, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward

By Tanya Talaga

In 1907, Duncan Campbell Scott, the superintendent of the Indian Act, turned down a request from the chief medical officer of Canada for additional funding to improve conditions in certain residential schools where 25 per ... Read More »

November 8, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1%

By Lars Osberg

In The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1%, Dalhousie University professor Lars Osberg employs an effective mixture of hard data, well-placed anecdotes, and solutions to create a thorough and multifaceted examination ... Read More »

October 29, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Motherhood: The Mother of All Sexism

By Marilyse Hamelin; Arielle Aaronson (trans.)

An admirable boldness infuses Marilyse Hamelin’s Motherhood: The Mother of All Sexism, originally published in French in 2017. She dares to speak out about discrimination against women in Quebec – a province that, with its ... Read More »

October 25, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Detained: Islamic Fundamentalist Extremism and the War on Terror in Canada

By Daniel Livermore

Almost two decades after 9/11, career foreign affairs officer Daniel Livermore (a former director general of security and intelligence for Foreign Affairs Canada) delivers what he calls an insider’s reflection on terrorism and the litany ... Read More »

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Mediocracy: The Politics of the Extreme Centre

By Alain Deneault; Catherine Browne (trans.)

In the last week of May, the federal Liberal government announced that it was spending $4.5 billion to buy the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. Condemnation was swift from all sides. Conservatives slammed the ... Read More »

June 21, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Boy on the Beach: My Family’s Escape from Syria and Our Hope for a New Home

By Tima Kurdi

Homes: A Refugee Story is the heart-rending account of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, an Iraqi-born boy who as a child survived the civil war in Syria. Now a high-school student in Edmonton, his story is ... Read More »

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs