‘I was speaking to a group of high school students, and none of them knew who Lester B. Pearson was’: historian J.D.M. Stewart hopes to change that with his new book, The Prime Ministers
Learning and understanding Canada’s political history is ‘part of being an informed and civic minded citizen,’ says author and historian J.D.M. Stewart of his new book, The Prime Ministers: Canada’s Leaders and the Nation They Shaped.
First Nations are ‘ready’ to move beyond the Indian Act, but time’s running out, says author Bob Joseph
In his book, 21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government, Bob Joseph breaks down many assumptions about the Indian Act and easily relating how this alternative can be used to circumvent this antiquated legislation.
The Finest Hotel in Kabul is a window into Afghan endurance through the eyes of locals working at the Intercontinental Hotel
BBC News’ chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet’s book presents the stories of Afghans working in Kabul’s first luxury hotel throughout decades of war.
The Coutts Diaries is the most revealing book ever written about Canadian politics
This is a previously unseen view of Pierre Trudeau, one that is sure to alter your opinions of him. It is an unvarnished look inside the government that brought you wage and price controls, the Charter of Rights, and the National Energy Program. And it is a darkly moving account of the life of a senior political staffer.
The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2025
1. After Redress: Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Struggles for Justice, edited by Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Mona Oikawa, UBC Press, 302 pp., $34.95. 2. Against the Grain: Defiant Giants Who Changed the World, by Terry O’Reilly, HarperCollinsCanada, 304 pp., $36.99. 3. A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1: Anticipation to Participation, 1839-1918, by Martha Langford, […]
‘Treating politics as a system of balance, not battle’: new book brings fresh insights into Mackenzie King and lessons for today’s leaders
Editor Patrice Dutil’s collection of essays in ‘The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King’ dives into the former prime minister’s personality, relationship with society, and policies—and why Canadian politicians ‘need to re-learn King’s statecraft.’
Andrew Coyne fears and foretells the fall of Canada
Andrew Coyne is right to raise his voice about the crisis of Canada. But the extinction-level political disaster he’s so worried about hasn’t happened over the span of this country’s ungainly, unworkable existence. Which means that Coyne could be right tomorrow, but so far has been wrong for the past 158 years.
The 2025 Massey Lecture: silence is not an option
In Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World, Alex Neve looks into why we should be fighting to preserve our universal human rights. ‘In a world permeated with crises many of which come right to our front door, that surely must mean going further, even when it takes us beyond our comfort zone.’
Statecraft opens the cabinet door on prime ministerial power in Ottawa
Editors Stephen Azzi and Patrice Dutil—professors at Carleton University and Toronto Metropolitan University, respectively—have spent years studying and publishing about Canadian prime ministers. In Statecraft, they introduce a novel lens to a literature that has traditionally focused on prime ministers as heads of government striving to advance an agenda without being derailed by political firefighting or […]
Extremities of anger
Marsha Lederman’s October 7th is a book that comes out of the Hamas attacks on Israel and Israel’s military response, but it’s not an account of the war in Gaza or how it is playing out in Israeli politics or in the Arab world. It is about how the conflict is being felt here in Canada, culturally.
