Politics & Current Affairs

Detained: Islamic Fundamentalist Extremism and the War on Terror in Canada

Almost two decades after 9/11, career foreign affairs officer Daniel Livermore (a former director general of security and intelligence for Foreign Affairs Canada) delivers what he calls an insider’s reflection on terrorism and the litany ... Read More »

October 4, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Mediocracy: The Politics of the Extreme Centre

By Alain Deneault; Catherine Browne (trans.)

In the last week of May, the federal Liberal government announced that it was spending $4.5 billion to buy the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. Condemnation was swift from all sides. Conservatives slammed the ... Read More »

June 21, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Boy on the Beach: My Family’s Escape from Syria and Our Hope for a New Home

By Tima Kurdi

Homes: A Refugee Story is the heart-rending account of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, an Iraqi-born boy who as a child survived the civil war in Syria. Now a high-school student in Edmonton, his story is ... Read More »

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Homes: A Refugee Story

By Abu Bakr al Rabeeah; Winnie Yeung

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work)

By Gwynne Dyer

Two seismic political events shook the world in 2016, confounding pollsters and pundits and jarring politicians and citizens alike. The first was the Brexit vote in the U.K.; the second was the election of Donald ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

By Daniel Heath Justice

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve no doubt encountered ongoing public conversations about Indigenous writing and storytelling. What is it? Whom should we read? And perhaps the most contentious debate: who gets to ... Read More »

May 3, 2018 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Boys: What It Means to Become a Man

By Rachel Giese

Will boys be boys? In the face of rising feminist visibility and the concomitant backlash against it, what it means to grow up male is increasingly under interrogation. Boys: What It Means to Become a ... Read More »

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity

By Jamil Jivani

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Unceasing Storm: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By Katherine Luo

In 1966, Mao Zedong unleashed the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Estimates suggest that between one and three million people died over the course of 10 years under Mao’s repressive regime. Katherine Luo was sent to a ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs