Politics & Current Affairs

Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why

For the last 30 years, politicians throughout the Anglo-American world have inveighed against big government in the name of greater efficiency, while governments have simultaneously become bloated and less efficient. In an attempt to shed ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

By Edward Keenan

Invoking Toronto’s recent history alongside its more distant past, political observer Edward Keenan, an editor at the city’s alt-weekly newspaper The Grid, has written a succinct, accessible book that brings some much needed context to ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Honour on Trial: The Shafia Murders and the Culture of Honour Killings

By Paul Schliesmann

Listening to the tragic news story in the summer of 2009, it was clear that something was very wrong. A car containing the bodies of four women had been found submerged in a lock station ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change

By Stephen Collis

When poet and professor Stephen Collis sat down in 2011 to write a book about how political change happens, he had no idea his plans would be broadsided by the Occupy movement. Enticed to become ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Power Trap: How Fear and Loathing Between New Democrats and Liberals Keep Stephen Harper in Power – and What Can Be Done About It

By Paul Adams

In September, at a conference in Boulder, Colorado, a couple dozen academics crowded into a room to listen to Canadian university professors describe the Harper government’s disastrous energy and environmental policies. The audience was told ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy

By Yves Engler

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

By Chrystia Freeland

Perhaps the most frequently reported economic trend in recent years is the growth of global inequality and the rise of a super-rich overclass, indelibly dubbed “the one per cent” by the Occupy movement. That said, ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?

By Doug Saunders

In a refreshing break from the past decade’s monotonous stream of Muslim-baiting titles, Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders sets out to demolish what he sees as myths surrounding immigration, Islam, and alleged national security ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection

By Deirdre Kelly

The prevailing image of the ballerina is one of lightness and grace, more a diaphanous swirl of fluid motion than flesh-and-blood woman. She is, for many, an idealized notion of femininity. But her reality is ... Read More »

October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk has written extensively on the oil industry; he won the 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil. With his new book, Nikiforuk adds a robustly researched and ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why

Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

Honour on Trial: The Shafia Murders and the Culture of Honour Killings

Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change

Power Trap: How Fear and Loathing Between New Democrats and Liberals Keep Stephen Harper in Power – and What Can Be Done About It

The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?

Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

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