Politics & Current Affairs

Nice Work: The Continuing Scandal of Canada’s Senate

Claire Hoy is a muckraking right-wing Southam columnist. His target is a cheap and easy villain: the Canadian Senate. Not many Canadians, senators included, defend the current institution. Hoy’s style is engagingly full of opinions, ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Fool’s Gold: The Making of a Global Market Fraud

By Brian Hutchinson

The May 1997 collapse of Bre-X Minerals, a company that in a life of a few years claimed to have the largest gold property in the world, should have come as no surprise. In this ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

My Recollection of Chicago and the Doctrine of Laissez Faire

By Stephen Leacock, Carl Spadoni, ed.

Aficionados of Stephen Leacock’s work will be interested in the recent discovery and subsequent publication of his 1903 doctoral dissertation in economics. In addition to being a valuable piece of scholarship in its own right, ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times

By Sylvia Bashevkin

Feminists feeling vanquished by despair can take heart from Sylvia Bashevkin’s Women on the Defensive. While this respected political science professor can hardly be called a Pollyanna, she is no Cassandra either. Instead, she is ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Alone at Sea: The Adventures of Joshua Slocum

By Ann Spencer

Joshua Slocum was a demon sailor. The Nova Scotia-born adventurer was probably one of the few who have ever sailed such ambitious journeys on rough crafts for the simple pleasure and wanderlust of it. No ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Making Waves: Three Radio Plays

By Emil Sher

Playwright Emil Sher is creating a new genre of drama with his radio morality-plays that explore ethical choices lurking behind the headlines of the daily news. He writes within the rich Canadian tradition of the ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870-1940

By Christopher Armstrong

For Canadian stock exchanges, the Bre-X mining scandal shows the truth in Mark Twain’s description of a gold mine as “a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it.” Author Christopher Armstrong, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal

By Christopher Moore

Comparing the lives of leaders for historical and political instruction goes back to Plutarch’s Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans. Christopher Moore describes several “fathers of the confederation” and makes the comparison with present ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

God in the Classroom: The Controversial Issue of Religion in Canada’s Schools

By Lois Sweet

The topic of secularization has been very much at the forefront of religious discussion in the recent past. In God in the Classroom: The Controversial Issue of Religion in Canada’s Schools, Ottawa journalist Lois Sweet ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors of the Transition to Womanhood

By K. Wind Hughes and Linda Wolf, photos by Linda Wolf

Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun is the latest addition to the recent deluge of books that explore the perilous emotional passage of girls into womanhood. The book is a compilation of bittersweet ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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