Politics & Current Affairs

Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory

Linda Spalding’s new book is a genre-bending examination of her relationship with convict Maryann Acker, whose role in two murders rocked Hawaii in the late 1970s. What makes the story remarkable is that Spalding herself ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Colour of Justice: Policing Race in Canada

By David M. Tanovich

Over the past few decades, the popular lexicon describing police behaviour has expanded to include a number of unique, though unofficial, arrestable offences, including Driving While Black (DWB) and Travelling While Arab (TWA). Officially, such ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Sorry, I Don’t Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won’t Go Away

By Graham Fraser

In Grade 5 French immersion, for reasons I can’t remember, my classmates and I came into the possession of T-shirts bearing the slogan: “Je Parle Français, Sometimes.” These shirts, needless to say, were a hit. ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology

By Stan Rowe; Don Kerr, ed.

The late Stan Rowe was one of those rare individuals in activist circles: a true character with a gentle sense of humour and long-term worldview that tempered the threat of rhetorical overkill. A pacifist jailed ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The New City: How the Crisis of Canada’s Cities Is Reshaping Our Nation

By John Lorinc

Canada is often thought of as a country defined by its towering mountains, rolling plains, and shimmering lakes, but the fact is we’re an intensely urban nation – some 80% of Canucks currently reside in ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The End of Food: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Food Supply – And What You Can Do About It

By Thomas F. Pawlick

An unsavoury encounter with a tomato that shared the culinary attributes of a hockey puck led journalist and sometime farmer Thomas Pawlick on a journey to discover what was happening to the quality, taste, and ... Read More »

April 10, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ With Every Mistake

By Gwynne Dyer

A collection of newspaper columns is supposed to act as a gap-filler for a publisher and a quick ego-stroke for its author. A column, after all, is the reactionary, unreflective bastard child of the essay, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Belle Moral: A Natural History

By Ann-Marie MacDonald; $

To call Belle Moral Ann-Marie MacDonald’s newest play is a bit of a misnomer, since it began life as The Arab’s Mouth and had a run at Toronto’s Factory Theatre in 1990. Since the idea ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age

By John Doyle

Familiar to many Canadians as The Globe and Mail’s television critic, John Doyle has written a book that is partly a memoir of his coming of age in the Ireland of the 1960s and ’70s ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Too Close for Comfort: Canada’s Future Within Fortress North America

By Maude Barlow

Tireless Canadian nationalist Maude Barlow, a prolific writer, researcher, and activist, has produced the latest in a series of social critiques that call on Canadians to beware of closer ties with the U.S. She examines ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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