Former Harper adviser Benjamin Perrin pens book on opioid crisis
University of British Columbia law professor Benjamin Perrin has authored a new book on the opioid crisis, which criticizes the drug policies of his past boss, former prime minister Stephen Harper. Prof. Perrin served as Mr. Harper’s legal adviser, working out of the Prime Minister’s Office, from 2012 to 2013, but later broke with Mr.Harper, […]
It’s Louis Riel Day today in Manitoba, Salhany offers a fresh book on Canada’s ‘most famous trial in court history’
It might be Family Day in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and New Brunswick today, but in Manitoba today, it’s Louis Riel Day, Feb. 17. Roger E. Salhany, a retired justice of the Superior Court of Ontario and a former trial lawyer, has written a fabulous book, A Rush to Judgment: The Unfair Trial of Louis […]
‘Government can do so much by doing less’: Desmond Cole on shedding discomfiting light on systemic injustices
OTTAWA—Desmond Cole wants Canadians to abandon their reflexive impulse to measure social and racial progress against their southern neighbours. In 2015, his awarding-winning Toronto Life cover story, in which he offered a searing account of his own experiences of being carded by the police, disrupted stubborn notions that Canada is largely immune to the injustices […]
Raptors boss Masai Ujiri joins Trudeau on Africa trip
The president of the defending NBA champions has joined the Canadian prime minister for a trip to Africa where Justin Trudeau hopes to win votes in Canada’s bid for a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council. The Toronto Raptors’ Masai Ujiri joined Mr. Trudeau on Can Force One as it headed from Ottawa […]
Julie Lalonde’s Resilience Is Futile to be released this month
Telling a story of fleeing from domestic violence at 20, to being stalked by a former partner for more than a decade, Julie Lalonde‘s Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde will be released later this month. “Resilience Is Futile is a story of survival, courage, and ultimately, hope,” […]
Bourrie brings New France explorer Pierre-Esprit Radisson’s story to life in Bush Runner
Mark Bourrie has written 14 books, but his most recent book, Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, a groundbreaking biography of the adventurous New France fur trader, explorer, and co-founder of the Hudson’s Bay Company, is attracting attention in Canada and the U.S. It’s been nominated for this year’s prestigious $30,000 RBC Charles Taylor […]
Fisheries, seas, and globalization: three new reads to look out for
Three new books on Canada’s struggling fishing industry, changing seas, and how globalization has left the middle class behind are set to hit the shelves. A new book by Canadian economist Jeff Rubin dives into how the middle class got “stuck with the bill” for globalization and how the populist wave of Brexit and the […]
‘There has never been an ethnographer-activist the likes of James Teit’
While doing research in the 1970s on ethnographic work on Indigenous singers and songs in British Columbia’s south central interior, University of Victoria history professor Wendy Wickwire made an exciting discovery: the long-forgotten historical figure James Teit, once a prolific ethnographer, anthropologist, and an Indigenous rights political activist in the early 1900s who had been […]
Books & Big Ideas: a delicious package of reading
Dear Hill Times’ subscriber, In case you have a hankering to read more books, we put together The Hill Times’ List of the Top 100 Best Non-Fiction Canadian Books in 2019 along with all our book reviews in 2019, just for you and in one package. Enjoy reading! From Alicia Elliott’s A Mind Spread Out […]
The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Non-Fiction Canadian Books in 2019
Absent Mandate: Strategies and Choices in Canadian Elections, by Harold D. Clarke, Jane Jenson, Lawrence LeDuc and Jon H. Pammett, University of Toronto Press, 224 pp., $32.95. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, by Alicia Elliott, Penguin Random House Canada, 240 pp., $25. Assessing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government: 353 Promises and a Mandate for […]
