Why the Gwa’sala and ‘Nakwaxda’xw people give life and meaning to the word ‘resilience’
This is a story of defiance of seemingly impossible odds and of overcoming the worst of human experiences, of courage, resilience, and determination. It is a story of the triumph of culture over colonization, hope over great hardship, and love over immense loss.
Jack Austin talks about his memoir, Unlikely Insider
Former Liberal Senator Jack Austin, aged 91, who was a member of Pierre Trudeau’s and Paul Martin’s cabinets, talks about politics, China, and how politics on the Hill is different today.
Canadian policing needs to change
Kent Roach began writing Canadian Policing: Why and How it Must Change, shortly after George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, which was followed a month later by police killings of two Indigenous people in New Brunswick and more events involving police violence in Canada. His book is one of five finalists for this year’s Donner Prize, the best public book of the year. The following is an excerpt.
To learn about the future of inflation, look to lessons from the past
The Next Age of Uncertainty is one of the finalists for this year’s Donner Prize, one of the best public policy books written in 2022. The following is an excerpt.
Eisler probes Saskatchewan’s political and economic change in From Left to Right
The following is an excerpt from Dale Eisler’s book, From Left to Right: Saskatchewan’s Political and Economic Transformation, published by the University of Regina Press, and nominated by the Writers’ Trust as one of the best political books of the year.
O’Kane lifts the lid on Google’s failure to build a city of the future on Toronto’s waterfront
The following is an excerpt from Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, by Josh O’Kane, one of the five finalists for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
More than a number: a daughter’s search for her Inuit grandmother identified only by digits on a disc under Canada’s Eskimo Identification system
Norma Dunning explores the impact of the Eskimo Disk System in her book, Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother.
Separate, not equal: the story of Canada in a Manitoba valley
The following is an excerpt from Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation, by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii). The two authors explore the history of two Prairie communities: one Indigenous, one non-Indigenous living side by side, separate and unequal, and what it means for the rest of us.
Yep, you read it right: author Chris Turner dishes up climate optimism
In How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World, Chris Turner looks at ‘the exhilarating story of real progress’ being made on the climate crisis. And it’s one of the best Canadian political books of the year.
Power of the pen to be lauded by parliamentary crowd at annual black-tie event
The Politics and the Pen event has raised more than $5-million for the Writers’ Trust since 2000, and last year raised $350,000 in one night. Co-chair Elizabeth Gray-Smith describes the evening as ‘a perfect marriage of politics and political writing, and it’s not celebrated enough.’
