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. […]
‘It’s feeling a lot like 1990’: Manitoba MPs celebrate Winnipeg’s long-awaited Grey Cup win
After nearly 30 years, the Grey Cup returned to Winnipeg, and local MPs were thrilled. “I can’t wait to go home and celebrate with Manitobans. Go Bombers,” new Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal said from the stands at Calgary’s McMahon Stadium as the clock ticked down in the fourth quarter on Nov. 24. Mr. Vandal […]
From a climate change guide to a case for Indigenous justice: five new books to keep your eye on
As the cold weather hits, five eclectic, Canadian non-fiction books could make good (and informative) reads to help pass the snowy months. Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice delves into how Indigenous people have fared under the Canadian justice system. Harold R. Johnson, a lawyer and author of eight books, looks at […]
CPAC’s Andrew Thomson is a two-day Jeopardy champion, will try to continue streak Nov. 18
As many Hill journalists are still recovering from the gruelling election campaign, CPAC’s Andrew Thomson has been showcasing his trivia skills in tinseltown. “Well that was an interesting two days @Jeopardy—despite some occasional brain fails (President Log? Hessian cows?). Next attempt will air on Monday, Nov. 18. … Thanks to everyone rooting me on this […]
Vancouver Granville race a ‘toss-up,’ as Wilson-Raybould’s rivals urge voters not to pick someone ‘on the outside’
VANCOUVER—It’s the waning minutes of a public forum in Vancouver, and the tense dynamic at play in a B.C. battleground is captured in a single question directed at ex-Liberal minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, who is taking on her former party as an Independent in a bid to keep her Vancouver Granville seat. Eighteen-year-old Sam Shuster—who days […]
