Excerpt—Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada’s Lost Promise and One Girl’s Dream, by Charlie Angus
Thirteen-year-old Shannen Koostachin understood that her fight for a proper school in her home community was more than just a request for infrastructure; she was also demanding the same opportunities for a healthy, prosperous future that are given to other Canadian children. In this excerpt, Charlie Angus documents a turning point in the campaign for a proper school, in May 2008, when […]
MP’s new book offers personal take on First Nations schools
Almost as much as his first-hand experience in his northern Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay, Ont., and with Shannen Koostachin, whom he calls a “hero,” it was something Charlie Angus read that galvanized him to write his latest book. The NDP MP received a copy of James Daschuk’s 2013 Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of […]
It’s Harper way, or the highway
The Prime Minister’s Office has for decades assumed an increasingly central role in the operation of the federal government. But anyone who has observed the government up close in recent years would have to agree that Stephen Harper has broken new ground in the re-orientation to accelerate the shift of power away from elected Members […]
‘I remember on the way home phoning Raymond again and saying simply, ‘Forty per cent. We’re going to get 40 per cent in Jonquière-Alma’: Mulcair
When the new year began we were putting the finishing touches on our plans for our most ambitious campaign in the party’s history. We knew that the election could come as early as the spring, and we needed to be ready. Since becoming leader in 2003, Jack had kept his promise to make Québec a top […]
National carbon price only way to reduce emissions, Carbon Bubble author says
Jeff Rubin is not impressed with what he’s hearing from politicians on what he considers the most important issue heading into the federal election—climate change. The former chief economist at CIBC World Markets and author of several bestsellers warns in his latest book, The Carbon Bubble: What Happens to Us When It Bursts, that climate […]
Enough with the vitriol, time to start the civil conversation
Populations in the democratic world are becoming “increasingly divided” and there’s a growing ideological incompatibility between modern liberalism and conservatism, argues author William Gairdner in his book, The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree. And if the civil conversation is failing, democracy is also failing. “Clearly, civil conversation at the surface […]
This sorry scheme of things
In trying to make sense of the latest “Senate scandal,” the most obvious factor is a series of appalling appointments. There is no need to list the names of the individuals involved; we all know who they are. Their shenanigans have been dismaying or titillating the country month after month in a tawdry political version […]
Steele offers a no-holds-barred account of politics
Former Nova Scotia NDP finance minister Graham Steele says he wrote What I Learned About Politics: Inside the Rise—and Collapse—of Nova Scotia’s NDP Government, because he wanted people to know what politics is really like. It ain’t pretty. In this eye-opening book, shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2014, Mr. Steele […]
Chrétien agrees there was a real possibility a Yes vote would have terminated his political career
Chantal Hébert and Jean Lapierre are shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum And The Day That Almost Was, published by Knopf Canada. The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize is administered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. The winner will be announced at the Politics & the […]
Canadian authors on their books, why people should read them
Clive Veroni, author of Spin: How Politics Has The Power to Turn Marketing On Its Head, published by Anansi. “This was originally conceived as a how-to book for marketers. But in the course of writing it, I realized that its message is relevant for every citizen who wants to be engaged in the world. […]
