February 22, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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 »
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
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
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
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
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 8, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reference
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 »
November 28, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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
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
If you don’t know what’s been happening to the news business these days, you haven’t been following the news. The story is by now familiar. Print is locked in a death spiral, starved for revenue ... Read More »
October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs