October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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 »
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
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
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
Despite a recent change in government and the widespread “Canada is back” rhetoric accompanying it, Canucks travelling abroad may still choose to keep the maple leaf decal off their backpacks after reading this stinging indictment ... Read More »
August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Screaming girls, flashing lights, and a dazzling smile. These are the images that come to mind when reminiscing about Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s rise to power, popularly known as Trudeaumania. This, however, is the antithesis of ... Read More »
August 2, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
A front-page article in the May 29, 2016, edition of The New York Times features the headline, “Rise of Trump Tracks Debate Over Fascism.” The article, by Peter Baker, examines the unlikely political trajectory of ... Read More »
July 12, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In Making Feminist Media, Elizabeth Groeneveld, currently assistant professor in the women’s studies department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, investigates the magazines that defined feminism of the 1990s. From third-wave publications like Bitch, ... Read More »
July 11, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Politics & Current Affairs
Marshall McLuhan would have had a field day exploring the dynamics of a terrorist group whose instantly recognizable brand of brutality appeals to disaffected youth while inspiring panic in the world’s most powerful nations. Ottawa ... Read More »
March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
There are few groups so prominent in the LGBT mainstream as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In this historical and ethnographic study of the organization, Vincent Doyle, a Canadian living in Spain, explains ... Read More »
January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs