Politics & Current Affairs

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

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

Disarming Conflict: Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield

By Ernie Regehr

“Peace, no less than politics, is the art of the possible.” So writes Ernie Regehr, activist and founder of Project Ploughshares, in his new book about the futility of trying to solve global conflicts through ... Read More »

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

★ Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada’s Lost Promise and One Girl’s Dream

By Charlie Angus

The new book by NDP MP Charlie Angus is actually worthy of all of the positive clichés of non-fiction book reviewing. The subject matter is important. The story is at times inspiring, at other times ... Read More »

August 24, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Stephen Harper

By John Ibbitson

A series of curious adjectives pepper the first half of John Ibbitson's biography of Stephen Harper. “Calm.” “Measured.” “Reasonable.” These are not, safe to say, words that are commonly applied to Canada’s 22nd prime minister, ... Read More »

August 17, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Generation Rising: The Time of the Québec Student Spring

By Shawn Katz

According to the authors of two new books about Quebec’s Maple Spring – the headline-generating student mobilization of 2012 – mainstream media was generally unsympathetic, if not outright hostile, to the movement, leaving citizens poorly ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

In Defiance

By Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle

By Brad Evans; Henry A. Giroux

Disposable Futures is a political and philosophical manifesto of sorts, but it is not always easy to follow. This is mainly because it is primarily constructed as an academic work, with roots in French critical ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Mayors Gone Bad

By Philip Slayton

For someone who has spent a chunk of his book-writing career fixating on terrible lawyers (2008’s Lawyers Gone Bad), interventionist judges (2012’s Mighty Judgment, about the Supreme Court of Canada), and now terrible mayors, Philip ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet

By Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Reflecting on a girlhood spent in the Arctic town of Kuujjuaq, Sheila Watt-Cloutier describes herself as “a cautious child who didn’t like taking big risks.” That characterization may seem surprising coming from an Inuk woman ... Read More »

June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy

By Anna Porter

It’s telling that the only reference to a serious critique of George Soros in Anna Porter’s new book about the mogul-philanthropist comes in the final pages. Sure, there are references to Glenn Beck’s anti-Semitic attacks ... Read More »

June 18, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

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