Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity

Will boys be boys? In the face of rising feminist visibility and the concomitant backlash against it, what it means to grow up male is increasingly under interrogation. Boys: What It Means to Become a ... Read More »

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Unceasing Storm: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By Katherine Luo

In 1966, Mao Zedong unleashed the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Estimates suggest that between one and three million people died over the course of 10 years under Mao’s repressive regime. Katherine Luo was sent to a ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Age of Voter Rage

By Nik Nanos

Two seismic political events shook the world in 2016, confounding pollsters and pundits and jarring politicians and citizens alike. The first was the Brexit vote in the U.K.; the second was the election of Donald ... Read More »

April 13, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense

By Marcello Di Cintio

Earlier this year, Virgin Atlantic removed a word from its in-flight menu and apologized for any offence it may have caused after some passengers threatened to boycott the airline. The offending word? Palestinian. It was ... Read More »

April 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

By Elaine Craig

Sexual assault victims contemplate the legal system with foreboding, their instincts for self-preservation sharpened by the experience of sexual assault itself. The punishing cross-examinations of victims in sexual assault trials are well known. Progressive changes ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

By David Frum

David Frum is a conservative. He has been affiliated with both the right-wing U.K. think tank Policy Exchange and the American Enterprise Institute, and was a senior adviser to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Edging Forward: Achieving Sustainable Community Development

By Ann Dale

With a constant stream of newsfeed images showing communities caught up in extreme weather events – catastrophic floods, droughts, and wildfires – juxtaposed against increasingly outrageous political stories and fake news, it’s often difficult to ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction

By Travis Lupick

Vancouver’s Downtown eastside might qualify as ground zero for drug addiction in Canada – the locus for everything from heroin and crack cocaine to crystal meth, Oxycontin, and fentanyl. Travis Lupick, a journalist with experience ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs

Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming – in Alberta, and in Ottawa

By Kevin Taft

For all the wealth they potentially possess, Alberta’s vast petroleum reserves have proved a mixed blessing at best. Even the industry’s staunchest defenders have to concede that the laborious extraction of oil from sand has ... Read More »

October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment