June 21, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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 »
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 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
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
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
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
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: Politics & Current Affairs
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
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 »
April 13, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Earlier this year, Virgin Atlantic removed a word from its in-flight menu and apologized for any offence it may have caused after some passengers threatened to boycott the airline. The offending word? Palestinian. It was ... Read More »
April 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs