January 20, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Social Sciences
It is not an exaggeration to say that Desmond Cole’s book should be taught in classrooms, roiling in the minds of the next generation, lauded in social justice movements. It’s a striking, searing, perspective-shifting book ... Read More »
In the new book Power Shift: The Longest Revolution, journalist Sally Armstrong conveys a synopsis of recent progress in the realm of gender dynamics that goes like this: old power was hoarded, new power is ... Read More »
November 7, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Journalist Robyn Doolittle’s latest work of non-fiction is an in-depth look at sexual politics and rape culture in the wake of the #MeToo movement, including the ramifications on the Canadian justice system. Extending the research ... Read More »
October 10, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
In the future, semioticians and media literacy professors will no doubt expend much time and energy deconstructing the way photo editors choose to present images of Justin Trudeau. In the honeymoon period following his accession ... Read More »
August 22, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In Red River Girl, reporter and former BBC producer Joanna Jolly engages with the true-crime genre to tell the story of one Indigenous girl murdered during an ongoing genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Early ... Read More »
August 19, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
John Ivison doesn’t think much of Justin Trudeau. That, at least, is the inescapable conclusion one reaches after reading the National Post columnist’s new political biography of Canada’s 23rd prime minister, a tart and frequently ... Read More »
August 7, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
If asked to come up with a metaphor for the current state of Canada’s media, most people would default to something bleaker than the tangled garden that appears in the title of the latest book ... Read More »
July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Libby Davies and Sid Ryan are high-profile figures who for decades have been on the front lines, calling out governments on social service cutbacks, environmental outrages, wars, and discrimination. While they share similar life trajectories ... Read More »
June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Libby Davies and Sid Ryan are high-profile figures who for decades have been on the front lines, calling out governments on social service cutbacks, environmental outrages, wars, and discrimination. While they share similar life trajectories ... Read More »
June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Joe Berridge is a storied urban planner and self-identified “city builder,” with a multinational client list and a thick personal Rolodex. Berridge’s new book, part of the inaugural list for Toronto-based non-fiction publisher Sutherland House, ... Read More »
June 10, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews