Politics & Current Affairs

Blowback: A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home

Most people associate the deadly chemical defoliant Agent Orange with the U.S. war in Vietnam. But freelance journalist Chris Arsenault has uncovered a disturbing Canadian connection that paints a portrait of human and environmental devastation ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future

By Thomas Homer-Dixon, ed.

In these early years of the 21st century there are two related challenges facing human civilization. As the global economy continues to grow and consume more energy, what happens when we start running out of ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It

By Victor Malarek

In Canada, it’s nice to pretend that prostitution isn’t the dangerous social ill it used to be. For one thing, this country no longer has any prostitutes. It now boasts “sex workers” who march into ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The World and Darfur: International Responses to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan

By Amanda F. Grzyb, ed.

The ongoing crisis in Darfur confronts us with the remarkable phenomenon of scholars, anthropologists, legal minds, and activists documenting a lengthy genocide-in-progress, with all parties seemingly powerless to stop the carnage. How can such intolerable ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism

By Joseph Heath

Like many things around us, the free-market system is a mechanism we blithely ignore until something goes wrong with it. So it’s no surprise that the recent economic downturn has also seen a rise in ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada

By Natasha Bakht, ed.

Given the state of the world over the last seven-plus years, it is worthwhile to hear from the voices in Belonging and Banishment, a new collection of essays edited by University of Ottawa law professor ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Tristan Chord

By Bettina von Kampen

In The Tristan Chord, Bettina von Kampen brings opera’s heightened aesthetic and drama to the quieter, more realistic realm of the novel. The title comes from the first chord of Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime

By Declan Hill

One of the more mystifying aspects of soccer is how a low-contact sport that so disdains physical toughness has attracted a fan base whose violent criminality far exceeds that of those who worship, say, the ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Who Killed Jackie Bates? Murder and Mystery During the Great Depression

By Bill Waiser

At the outset of Who Killed Jackie Bates?, University of Saskatchewan history professor Bill Waiser seems to make it pretty clear that Jackie’s parents, Ted and Rose, murdered their seven-year-old son in cold blood in ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

By Andrew Nikiforuk

For the better part of their history, the Alberta tar sands have been out of sight and out of mind for most Canadians. A thinly populated wilderness and (in the words of one early bitumen ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Blowback: A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home

Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future

The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It

The World and Darfur: International Responses to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan

Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism

Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada

The Tristan Chord

The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime

Who Killed Jackie Bates? Murder and Mystery During the Great Depression

Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

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