Politics & Current Affairs

Ardor in the Court! Sex and the Law

As Jeffrey Miller, author and popular columnist for The Lawyers Weekly, notes in his introduction, a lifetime of research into sex and the law would cover only the margins of the subject. Playing in those ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of Afghan Women

By Sally Armstrong

In March 1997, Sally Armstrong flew to Pakistan as a journalist. She returned to Toronto an activist. Armstrong was researching an article about the treatment of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban for Homemaker’s magazine, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shakespeare’s Face: Is This the Face of Genius?

By Stephanie Nolen

When her mother mentioned to journalist Stephanie Nolen that a neighbour had a one-of-a-kind portrait of William Shakespeare that might be worth a lot of money, little did the younger Nolen realize that her pursuit ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Law, Corporate Crime and the Perversion of Democracy

By Harry Glasbeek

In a world where corporate names like Enron and Arthur Andersen have become synonymous with greed, fraud, and illegality, there is still little structural analysis on how yesterday’s dot-com glamour boys become today’s subpoenaed congressional ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate

By Naomi Klein

That two of the anti-globalization movement’s leading lights, women known in these circles on a first-name-only basis as Maude (Barlow) and Naomi (Klein), should come from relatively privileged but dissatisfied Canada is no surprise. Canadians ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Who Gets in: What’s Wrong with Canada’s Immigration Program – and How to Fix It

By Daniel Stoffman

In Who Gets In Daniel Stoffman takes a big bite out of that most sacred of all Canadian cows – our immigration program. Deftly written and studiously substantiated, this book offers much to chew on, ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Thirteen Hands and Other Plays

By Carol Shields

Carol Shields claims to have been “an avid theatre-goer in the sixties and seventies,” when she was “greatly attracted to the experimental theatre of the time.” Her own plays, collected here for the first time, ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Bubble and the Bear: How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream

By Douglas Hunter

In the wake of a tragic event – a school shooting or a car accident involving a mobile phone, say – there is a terrific swell of curiosity among members of the media and the ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Black Book of English Canada

By Normand Lester,Ray Conlogue, trans.

For Normand Lester, a francophone journalist with Radio-Canada, the officially promoted narratives of Canadian history are biased in favour of English Canada and whitewash its many injustices. Lester wants to set the record straight, and ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Kings of Convergence

By Gordon Pitts

Very few people can go through their daily routine without coming into contact with the media, be it radio, television, film, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, or even outdoor billboards. Moreover, media play a key role ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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