★ Churchill and the Dardanelles: Myth, Memory, and Reputation

In 1915, Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, seized on an idea to attack the Ottoman Empire by getting a fleet through the straits of the Dardanelles. His hope was that success would ... Read More »

March 6, 2017 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs

Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power

By Joseph Tohill (ed.); Louis Hyman (ed.)

We may easily feel a sense of worthiness as consumers when we purchase a product that we are told will, say, help fund research toward a cure for cancer. But how do we know our ... Read More »

February 22, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Death in the Family

By John Chipman

When the wheels of justice grind slowly, the process can seem interminable and destructive. This is especially true in cases where justice is being miscarried. By the time Tammy Marquardt had been exonerated in the ... Read More »

February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)

By Harold R. Johnson

The theme of healing is present in two recent non-fiction books by indigenous authors. But each author approaches the process of healing, and the question of what needs to be healed in the first place, ... Read More »

January 24, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

Truth and Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland

By Greg Marquis

Dennis Oland was perceived as a mild-mannered family man of good character. Then, on Dec. 19, 2015, he was convicted of butchering his father, Richard Oland, a millionaire businessman and part of the family that ... Read More »

December 15, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects

By Jane Urquhart‚ Scott McKowen (ill.)

Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017 no doubt will prompt much soul-searching around the subject of how to define our country. Is it easier or harder, 150 years after Confederation, to explain who we are? And how ... Read More »

December 12, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reference

The Promise of Canada: 150 Years – People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

By Charlotte Gray

December 8, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reference

Shadow of Doubt: The Trial of Dennis Oland

By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon

November 28, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

By Noah Richler

Noah Richler’s latest book is meant to be the story of one unlikely politician’s doomed campaign as a candidate for the federal New Democratic Party. But this enjoyable, albeit uneven, memoir also provides some insight ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

By Jennifer Welsh

In The Return of History, the 2016 edition of the CBC Massey Lectures, Jennifer Welsh takes umbrage with Francis Fukuyama. In 1992, Fukuyama declared that the end of the Cold War marked the inevitable cessation ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs

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