‘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 […]
Inside the federal bureaucracy, Clarke digs up a ‘creeping culture of excessive silos, hierarchies’ in digital attitudes
ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—What happens when the risk-averse organizational culture of the Government of Canada confronts the freewheeling style of digital culture? A purposeful slow reaction, finds a new book on the topic. Amanda Clarke is a public administration scholar at Carleton University who specializes in digital government. Opening the Government of Canada: The Federal Bureaucracy […]
Maura Forrest to join Politico Pro Canada, Joanna Smith switches roles
When the House of Commons returns after the new year, the National Post‘s Maura Forrest will be in a different newsroom. Politico Pro Canada executive director Luiza Ch. Savage announced on Dec. 9 that Ms. Forrest will be joining Andy Blatchford in the media organization’s Ottawa newsroom and will be covering energy and environmental policy issues. […]
