Politics & Current Affairs

Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

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

Trudeaumania: The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

By Robert Wright

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

America at War with Itself

By Henry A. Giroux

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

Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age

By Elizabeth Groeneveld

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

The Killing Game: Martyrdom, Murder and the Lure of ISIS

By Mark Bourrie

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

Making Out in the Mainstream: GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability

By Vincent Doyle

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

Sold Down the Yangtze: Canada’s Lopsided Investment Deal with China

By Gus Van Harten

Sold Down the Yangtze, by Osgoode Hall law professor Gus Van Harten, is an incredibly in-depth treatment of a very complex and potentially important issue – but that doesn’t make it a good book. An ... Read More »

December 16, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away

By Lori Shenher

The title of Stolen Sisters, the Governor General’s Literary Award–nominated translation of last year’s Sœurs volées, refers to two Amnesty International reports – 2004’s Stolen Sisters, and 2009’s No More Stolen Sisters. Debut author Emmanuelle ... Read More »

November 26, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women

By Emmanuelle Walter; Christelle Morelli (trans.); Susan Ouriou (trans.)

November 26, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration

By Kim Anderson (ed.); Robert Alexander Innes (ed.)

Many activists, writers, and communities are addressing the nexus of race, sexuality, and gender, and the ways these things combine to form a person’s identity. Indigenous Men and Masculinities accomplishes this by discussing aboriginal masculinity ... Read More »

November 17, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

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