Politics & Current Affairs

Belle Moral: A Natural History

To call Belle Moral Ann-Marie MacDonald’s newest play is a bit of a misnomer, since it began life as The Arab’s Mouth and had a run at Toronto’s Factory Theatre in 1990. Since the idea ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age

By John Doyle

Familiar to many Canadians as The Globe and Mail’s television critic, John Doyle has written a book that is partly a memoir of his coming of age in the Ireland of the 1960s and ’70s ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Too Close for Comfort: Canada’s Future Within Fortress North America

By Maude Barlow

Tireless Canadian nationalist Maude Barlow, a prolific writer, researcher, and activist, has produced the latest in a series of social critiques that call on Canadians to beware of closer ties with the U.S. She examines ... Read More »

January 12, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bud Inc.: Inside Canada’s Marijuana Industry

By Ian Mulgrew

There can be no denying that the pot phenomenon, confined decades ago to a supposed fringe underground, has since morphed into a mainstream drug of choice. The drug has become so ubiquitous that even prime-time ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Race Against Time

By Stephen Lewis

A chill grows in the air. The days shorten and naturally our thoughts turn to Christmas. Perhaps, like me, you’re thinking about what kind of gift to get the Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shakespeare’s Will

By Vern Thiessen

Alberta-based playwright Vern Thiessen’s Shakespeare’s Will is loosely based on the life of Anne Hathaway, a woman best known for the man she married. Little is known, and much is speculated, about Shakespeare’s better half. ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients

By Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels

A pill for every ill. It’s the sort of jingle that a pharmaceutical marketer would love to see on the Billboard charts and is certainly the mindset of most pharma executives and shareholders, according to ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trout Stanley

By Claudia Dey

In her third play, Trout Stanley, poet and playwright Claudia Dey presents Sugar and Grace Ducharme, a pair of seriously messed-up, non-identical twins burning off some hardcore bad karma. Try as they may, these girls ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World

By John Ralston Saul

After decades of incessant talk from pundits about the inevitability of multinational capitalism, many have come to consider globalized market forces to be as unavoidable as, say, gravity. Corporate and public institutions have linked their ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

400 Kilometres

By Drew Hayden Taylor

With 400 Kilometres, the final installment of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Someday trilogy, the story of Janice Wirth comes full circle. The trilogy began with Janice, then a baby named Grace Wabung, being plucked from her ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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