Bonner shows people how to say what they mean and stay on message
REGINA, SASK.—Have you ever read an email from your boss or co-worker and had no idea what he or she wants you to do? Have you ever sat through a speech or presentation and at the end wondered what it was all about? Clearly, a lot of people have a difficult time being clear, […]
This just in: this year’s five finalists for the prestigious Donner Prize on their books and the election issues
Beyond The Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights by Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara, and André Le Dressay, foreword by C.T. Manny Jules McGill-Queen’s University Press 224 pp. What’s your book about? “Our book is about the fact that First Nations do not own their lands under Canadian law, and hence are deprived of their full […]
OKA, a political crisis and its legacy
This book is a fascinating account of a dramatic political crisis that narrowly avoided bloodshed on a large scale. It goes far beyond a recounting of precipitating events and their resolution by providing historical, social, and political context that infuses those facts with much greater meaning and significance. The historical features engage colonialism, culture, religion, […]
Complacency can be dangerous: how to manage a crisis, in a pinch
TORONTO—I’ve never really been in a crisis. Stuck for an hour inside an elevator, in a two-hour traffic jams on the 401 in Ontario, the occasional ill-advised email sent deliberately or inadvertently, or finding myself at my car at the end of a six-hour kayak expedition and realizing that my car keys are at the […]
Recently released books:
Peter Gzowski – A Biography, by R.B. Fleming, Dundurn, 512 pp., $40. Book’s blurb: “Complicated is too anodyne a word to describe the Peter Gzowski who merges from Fleming’s pages. But on the radio he was magic. The medium freed him of all the dark corners of his private self—and made him free as the […]
Recently Released Books
At Home and Abroad: The Canada-U.S. Relationship and Canada’s Place in the World, by Patrick Lennox, UBC Press, 192 pp, $32.95. Book’s blurb: “At Home and Abroad stands to make an important and completely original contribution to the field. Though there is a reluctance of Canadian scholars to embrace structural theory (at least explicitly), this […]
Recently released books:
Nomad, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Knopf Canada, 277 pp., $32. Book’s blurb “Here is the story of a young African woman, born into Islam, who was given every possible occasion to feel grievance, resentment, and humiliation yet who employed her own life as an example of internationalism, tolerance, multiculturalism and the redemption of others…. For […]
CIDA and the Money Doublers
Much ink has been spilled over Canada’s so-called G8 initiative on maternal and child health for the developing world. Many have urged the government forward on this laudable mission, while others—demonized as spiteful people with a narrow domestic agenda—have railed against the government’s exclusion of funding for abortion. The facts behind the debate are more […]
Getting G8 commitments back on track
It takes a real friend to deliver the hardest truth. A friend is how UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon characterized his relationship with Canada, upcoming host of the G8 and G20 summits. And in Ottawa last week, Ban strongly urged Canada to use its leadership to get the G8 to forge a new resolve to […]
Recently released books:
Storms of Controversy: The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed, by Palmiro Campagna, Dundurn, 288 pp., $26.99. Book’s blurb: “In this revised fourth edition of the bestseller, the author brings us up to date on the CF-105 Arrow, the most innovative, sophisticated aircraft the world seen by the end of the 1950s. This new edition features […]
