Politics & Current Affairs

Benoit: Wrestling with the Horror That Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport

By Steven Johnson, Heath McCoy, Irvin Muchnick, and Greg Oliver

In Benoit, four wrestling journalists pen essays about the Alberta-born grappler Chris Benoit, who – in a possible fit of steroid-induced rage – murdered his wife and child before killing himself in Atlanta in June ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army

By Christie Blatchford

Stating the obvious: you either love Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford or you loathe her. To those in the former group, she is the shoots-from-the-hip, tough-as-nails scribe of the people with a heart of ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win

By Warren Kinsella

The War Room, the latest book by longtime political operative Warren Kinsella, purports to be a guide of sorts, but a more accurate subtitle would have been “You Just Paid Nearly 30 Bucks to Have ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hurshman, and Criminal Violence in Canadian Homes

By Brian Vallée

At a time when the tally of women killed by their male partners far outnumbers the victims of terrorist acts, Brian Vallée’s book would seem a welcome perspective on a global crisis so commonplace that ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar

By Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang

Canada is at war. Even now, after the deaths of more than 70 Canadian soldiers on the roads and battlefields of Afghanistan, that fact still startles. How did this come to pass? Why are we ... Read More »

November 26, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge

By Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard, and Nick Rivers

Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson and Simon Fraser University profs Marc Jaccard and Nic Rivers go to town with this look at Canada’s abysmal record on climate change. They’re mostly preaching to the eco-choir ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power

By Tom Flanagan

Harper’s Team is a lively and intriguing firsthand account of Stephen Harper’s rise to power, as well as a valuable historical document that does not pretend to be unbiased. With an infectious excitement about the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Art of the Possible: A Handbook for Political Activism

By Amanda Sussman

The title, as well as the content, of Amanda Sussman’s guide to lobbying the federal government neatly demonstrates just how far we’ve come since the heady days of the 1960s, when “Be Realistic, Demand the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide

By Laura Murray, Sam Trosow

Canadian Copyright is a timely but risky book. Its arrival falls smack between the Liberals’ failed attempt to revamp Canadian copyright law and the rumblings of an imminent Conservative foray into the same territory. If ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

By Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes EverythingDon Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams; $32.50 cloth 978-1-59184-138-8, Portfolio/Penguin, Jan. Wikinomics is a thoroughly researched survey of 21st-century digital success stories that makes a compelling case for the transformative power ... Read More »

October 4, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Benoit: Wrestling with the Horror That Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport

Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army

The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win

The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hurshman, and Criminal Violence in Canadian Homes

★ The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar

Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge

Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power

The Art of the Possible: A Handbook for Political Activism

Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

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