Politics & Current Affairs

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

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

Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable: How I Tried to Help the World’s Most Notorious Mayor

By Mark Towhey and Johanna Schneller

In the realm of Toronto municipal politics, the months between May 2013 and Oct. 2014 resembled a conflation of Shakespearean political drama and Marx Brothers farce. Every day seemed to bring new revelations about extra-curricular ... Read More »

November 5, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford

By John Filion

The saga of Rob Ford, the unlikely and unfathomable former Toronto mayor, is the rare political story that fascinates long after it has effectively ended. Ford, who is fighting cancer, is out of the international ... Read More »

November 2, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

By Dan Gardner; Philip E. Tetlock

In 2010, Dan Gardner published Future Babble, a fascinating look at the often dodgy business of expert predictions. Much of the scientific core of the book was derived from the research of Philip Tetlock, himself ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun

By A.J. Somerset

Earlier this year, a YouTube clip of comedian Jim Jefferies talking about gun control in America went viral (the clip has since been taken down due to a copyright claim). Jefferies, an Australian, took direct ... Read More »

September 21, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption

By Brian Gorman

MacEwan University assistant professor of communication Brian Gorman argues that the Internet and the 2008 economic downturn had deleterious effects on ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada

By Robert Bothwell

University of toronto history professor Robert Bothwell traverses Seymour Lipsett territory in his new examination of how two countries so close in proximity can have developed in such divergent ways, concluding that “Canada oscillates on ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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