April 15, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
On Feb. 7, 2019, The Globe and Mail published a front-page story alleging inappropriate influence from members of the Prime Minister’s Office – up to and including the PM, Justin Trudeau – with the intent ... Read More »
On Feb. 7, 2019, The Globe and Mail published a front-page story alleging inappropriate influence from members of the Prime Minister’s Office – up to and including the PM, Justin Trudeau – with the intent ... Read More »
April 15, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Settler or Indigenous, it’s impossible to approach Kent Roach’s Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case without baggage. As an Indigenous person, this might include still-fresh traumas – including the injury ... Read More »
February 25, 2019 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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