Politics & Current Affairs

No News Is Bad News: Canada’s Media Collapse – And What Comes Next

If you don’t know what’s been happening to the news business these days, you haven’t been following the news. The story is by now familiar. Print is locked in a death spiral, starved for revenue ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada

By Shannon Stettner (ed.)

In 1969, abortion was legalized in Canada, but only when the procedure was performed in a hospital and had been approved by a committee of doctors. In response to these restrictions, activists launched the cross-country ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

By Maude Barlow

With 2016 on track to shatter heat and drought records, the crises of climate change and declining freshwater supplies that have long afflicted the global south are increasingly appearing in Canada, where the seemingly unlimited ... Read More »

October 13, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

By David Leach

Reading David Leach’s thoroughly researched and expertly envisioned new book, one cannot help but be reminded of the twin etymology of the word “utopia.” The term comes from both the Greek eu topos, meaning a ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism

By Tim McCaskell

Tim McCaskell is often referred to as a granddaddy of gay activism in Canada, though he’s suggested he prefers the term “dinosaur.” In his exhaustive history of LGBT politics in Toronto and beyond, McCaskell tracks ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

By Todd Gordon‚ Jeffery R. Webber

Despite a recent change in government and the widespread “Canada is back” rhetoric accompanying it, Canucks travelling abroad may still choose to keep the maple leaf decal off their backpacks after reading this stinging indictment ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trudeaumania: The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

By Robert Wright

Screaming girls, flashing lights, and a dazzling smile. These are the images that come to mind when reminiscing about Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s rise to power, popularly known as Trudeaumania. This, however, is the antithesis of ... Read More »

August 2, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

America at War with Itself

By Henry A. Giroux

A front-page article in the May 29, 2016, edition of The New York Times features the headline, “Rise of Trump Tracks Debate Over Fascism.” The article, by Peter Baker, examines the unlikely political trajectory of ... Read More »

July 12, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age

By Elizabeth Groeneveld

In Making Feminist Media, Elizabeth Groeneveld, currently assistant professor in the women’s studies department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, investigates the magazines that defined feminism of the 1990s. From third-wave publications like Bitch, ... Read More »

July 11, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Politics & Current Affairs

The Killing Game: Martyrdom, Murder and the Lure of ISIS

By Mark Bourrie

Marshall McLuhan would have had a field day exploring the dynamics of a terrorist group whose instantly recognizable brand of brutality appeals to disaffected youth while inspiring panic in the world’s most powerful nations. Ottawa ... Read More »

March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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