Politics & Current Affairs

A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects

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

The Promise of Canada: 150 Years – People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

By Charlotte Gray

December 8, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reference

Shadow of Doubt: The Trial of Dennis Oland

By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon

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

The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

By Noah Richler

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

★ The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

By Jennifer Welsh

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

No News Is Bad News: Canada’s Media Collapse – And What Comes Next

By Ian Gill

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

Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada

By Shannon Stettner (ed.)

In 1969, abortion was legalized in Canada, but only when the procedure was performed in a hospital and had been approved by a committee of doctors. In response to these restrictions, activists launched the cross-country ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

By Maude Barlow

With 2016 on track to shatter heat and drought records, the crises of climate change and declining freshwater supplies that have long afflicted the global south are increasingly appearing in Canada, where the seemingly unlimited ... Read More »

October 13, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

By David Leach

Reading David Leach’s thoroughly researched and expertly envisioned new book, one cannot help but be reminded of the twin etymology of the word “utopia.” The term comes from both the Greek eu topos, meaning a ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism

By Tim McCaskell

Tim McCaskell is often referred to as a granddaddy of gay activism in Canada, though he’s suggested he prefers the term “dinosaur.” In his exhaustive history of LGBT politics in Toronto and beyond, McCaskell tracks ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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