Politics & Current Affairs

Spinwars.ca: The Politics of Media in the Digital Age

As a subscriber to an e-mail listserv for journalists, I receive numerous postings of interest to people in the business of disseminating information. Topics such as the buying and selling of newspaper chains, and the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion

By Jean Swanson

Social crises in Canada usually spawn a bumper crop of books by policy experts, academics, and journalists, but few of these scribes write from first-hand experience. Jean Swanson’s take on poverty is a well-documented study ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession

By Rosemary Sullivan

Romantic obsession is one of those wickedly tricky subjects that easily lead to a badly written swamp of pitiful sentiment – but not in the discerning hands of veteran biographer Rosemary Sullivan. Turning her attention ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Unseen Power: How Mutual Funds Threaten the Political and Economic Wealth of Nations

By Adam Harmes

In the world of heartless globalization and mass layoffs, runaway corporate profits and greedy CEOs, Adam Harmes has seen the enemy and, to a large extent, the enemy is us: the individual investor facing down ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Does Canada Matter? Liberalism and the Illusion of Sovereignty

By Clarence Bolt

Canadian politics in the 20th century have been driven by three ideologies: toryism, liberalism, and socialism. The force that has brought together these disparate ideologies is nationalism.While toryism accepts social privilege and economic inequality as ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Canada We Want: Competing Visions for the New Millennium

By John Godfrey with Rob McLean

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Outrage! Canada’s Justice System on Trial

By Alex MacDonald

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Patriots and Profiteers: On Economic Warfare, Embargo Busting, and State-Sponsored Crime

By R.T. Naylor

According to McGill University economist R.T. Naylor, economic warfare is a Pandora’s box of unforeseen consequences that often does more harm to the embargoer than to the intended victim.In Patriots and Profiteers, Naylor examines the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Making of Cabaret

By Keith Garebian

Despite various directors’ attempts to make Cabaret change with the times – Liza Minnelli’s green fingernails in Bob Fosse’s 1972 film version, and the surprising evocation of a concentration camp at the end of Sam ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hard Right Turn: The New Face of Neo-conservativism in Canada

By Brooke Jeffrey

In the straight-shooting, uncomplicated world of the neo-conservative, Brooke Jeffrey is the Other. She is a political science professor, a former federal bureaucrat, and a one-time Liberal candidate. Now she has written a book, assessing ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Spinwars.ca: The Politics of Media in the Digital Age

Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion

★ Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession

Unseen Power: How Mutual Funds Threaten the Political and Economic Wealth of Nations

Does Canada Matter? Liberalism and the Illusion of Sovereignty

The Canada We Want: Competing Visions for the New Millennium

Outrage! Canada’s Justice System on Trial

★ Patriots and Profiteers: On Economic Warfare, Embargo Busting, and State-Sponsored Crime

The Making of Cabaret

Hard Right Turn: The New Face of Neo-conservativism in Canada

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