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Tip and Trade: How Two Lawyers Made Millions from Insider Trading

It is a bad sign when an author writes, as Mark Coakley does a little more than halfway through Tip and Trade, that his subject matter is “not the most action-packed to write about.” If ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking

By Benjamin Perrin

Consider the following miserable assortment of facts: on Amazon you can buy a book entitled The Pimp Game: Instructional Guide by Mickey Royal; enterprising hip-hop stars market energy drinks called “Pimp Juice” and host television ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Right Balance: Canada’s Conservative Tradition

By Hugh Segal

The new book by Hugh Segal, Conservative senator and longtime party operative (including a stint as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s chief of staff), is among the most engaging of the books attempting to situate and ... Read More »

March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Robert Latimer: A Story of Justice and Mercy

By Gary Bauslaugh

Saskatchewan wheat farmer Robert Latimer, the man at the centre of Canada’s most contentious euthanasia trial, is given an extremely sympathetic treatment in this new study. A passionate advocate for more permissive end-of-life legislation, author ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Exporting Democracy: The Risks and Rewards of Pursuing a Good Idea

By Bob Rae

The role of federalism in building and sustaining democracy, and the necessity for democratic nations to guide autocratic and strife-ridden nations to homegrown versions of federalism, may seem like esoteric topics for a non-academic book. ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

By Roméo Dallaire

Roméo Dallaire came to global attention for his efforts to stop the Rwandan genocide while serving with the U.N. He also received enormous praise for his book on the subject, Shake Hands with the Devil, ... Read More »

December 13, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Trouble with Billionaires: Why Too Much Money at the Top Is Bad for Everyone

By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks

The Trouble with Billionaires isn’t exclusively focused on exposing the problems caused by individuals with buckets of money. It is more concerned with how our culture, our government, and our economic system has allowed a ... Read More »

November 22, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region

By Wayde Compton

Poet and scholar Wayde Compton’s collection of essays on race in Canada is a refreshing series of investigations into the national myths that have resulted in Canada being dubbed a “post-racial” nation. Focusing on the ... Read More »

November 8, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World

By Doug Saunders

The first book by The Globe and Mail’s European correspondent promises a vivid globetrotting trip to urban neighbourhoods filled with rural migrants, a demographic reality that, Doug Saunders argues persuasively, is shaping the current century. ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe Them Anyway

By Dan Gardner

That we cannot predict the future with any certainty is not all that shocking a revelation. Nevertheless, Ottawa Citizen columnist Dan Gardner provides an engaging tour through the recent history, science, psychology, and economics of ... Read More »

October 25, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs