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★ The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth About Mulroney, Schreiber, and the Airbus Scandal

Earlier this year, New York University’s journalism school released a list of the top 10 works of journalism produced in the U.S. since 2000, as voted on by a panel of journalists and educators. If ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Canadian Century: Moving out of America’s Shadow

By Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens, and Niels Veldhuis

The Canadian Century is tantamount to a manifesto for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a policy think tank for which lead author Brian Lee Crowley serves as managing director. It is a political tract that, at points, ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard

By Valerie Fortney

On May 17, 2006, at approximately 7 p.m. Afghanistan time, Forward Observation Officer Captain Nichola Goddard earned a tragic place in Canadian history: she became the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat. Although ... Read More »

August 16, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America

By Derek Lundy

The events of 9/11 changed the borderlands of the U.S. irrevocably. The longest undefended border in the world is disappearing, soon to be a memory. The Land of the Free is quickly becoming Fortress America, ... Read More »

June 14, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research In Motion

By Rod McQueen

Rod McQueen’s new book features a foreword by tech giants Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, co-CEOs of the Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion. Typically, this would mean that the main figures in the book have, ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Thin Bruised Line: The Imminent Threat to Police and Public Safety

By Doug Clark

The notion that police work in Canada is becoming harder is nothing new; Thin Bruised Line, a thoroughly researched volume by veteran investigative journalist Doug Clark, examines the reasons why this notion is especially true ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Beyond the Bubble: Imagining a New Canadian Economy

By James Laxer

There’s nothing like an economic crash to create a market for financially themed books that are both analytical (focusing on how and why the crash happened in the first place) and prescriptive (suggesting ways out ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization

By Gordon Laird

It will be interesting to see if Wal-Mart carries Gordon Laird’s new book. Laird repeatedly cites the Arkansas-based super-retailer as the most prominent purveyor of bargains and one of the primary beneficiaries of our lust ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman

By Sheema Khan

In 2002, The Globe and Mail asked columnist Sheema Khan to share her personal insights on Islam and Muslim life in the wake of 9/11. Of Hockey and Hijab, a compilation of these essays, is ... Read More »

December 14, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

By Rex Murphy

As a former Newfoundland politician and a commentator for both The Globe and Mail and CBC’s The National, Rex Murphy is arguably Canada’s most famous pundit. Murphy is widely admired for his clever turns of ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs