Politics & Current Affairs

A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia

Queen’s University philosophy professor Christine Overall lives her feminism inside the classroom and out.“Feminism,” she writes, “is the heart of who I am, not only as an academic, but as a citizen and an individual.” ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Random Excess: The Wild Ride of Michael Cowpland and Corel

By Ross Laver

In the rapidly changing world of computers, no Canadian company has made a bigger splash than Ottawa’s Corel Corporation. Led by Mitel founder Michael Cowpland, the company surged into the headlines as business reversals caused ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

East and West

By Chris Patten

Newspapers in China called Chris Patten a criminal, a serpent, and a whore. The country’s politicians and diplomats alternately snubbed him, scolded him, and threatened him. He was second-guessed and undercut by traditionalists in Britain’s ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Last Stop, Paris: The Assassination of Mario Bachand and the Death of the FLQ

By Michael McLoughlin

The murder of a marginal, emotionally unstable, onetime member of the revolutionary separatist group the Front de Liberation du Québec (FLQ) in a Paris apartment in 1971 was the linchpin of a Canadian security operation ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Next Century: Why Canada Wins

By Nuala Beck

A decade ago, Toronto business economist Nuala Beck freshened economic thinking with the phrase “new economy,” the idea that businesses built on human capital would thrive more than those in the old economy of bricks ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey’s Bay Hustle

By Jacquie McNish

It started out as another game of chicken between penny stock traders and greedy investors. It turned into a $4.3- billion deal designed to protect the future of the world’s largest nickel company. In The ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Eatons: The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Royal Family

By Rod McQueen

In this unauthorized corporate history, financial journalist Rod McQueen describes the rise and fall of the Eaton’s department store empire and what really happened to the family behind the throne. The founder of Eaton’s, Timothy ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power

By Peter C. Newman

In this third instalment on the movers and shakers of Canada, social analyst, historian, and gossipmonger Peter C. Newman lays out the case for the decline and fall of the old order and the ascension ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Supreme at Last: The Evolution of the Supreme Court of Canada, 1949-1999

By Peter McCormick

In Supreme at Last, self-proclaimed “court-watcher” Peter McCormick scales a mountain of information to provide readers with a history of the Supreme Court of Canada, from its humble beginnings in 1949 to the powerful and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bathory

By Moynan King

Elizabeth Bathory, a cult favourite in the world of vampire films, was a 17th-century Hungarian countess, infamous for her obsession with virgin blood. In Bathory, Toronto playwright Moynan King reimagines the last years of Bathory’s ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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