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Book Review

Aug 22, 2019

New book takes aim at Silicon Valley's bootstraps origin story

Mary Rowles

Margaret O'Mara's "The Code"shows that the technological revolution in America didn't emerge from the free market, but floated on a multi-billion dollar sea of postwar defence funding.

News

Aug 15, 2019

Fighting homelessness with disaster relief housing

Cathy Crowe

In this excerpt from her new memoir, Cathy Crowe recounts how, in the late 1990s, she and fellow Toronto housing activists fought homelessness by erecting prefabricated housing on undeveloped land.

Blog

Aug 7, 2019

The Activist Toolkit's summer reading list

Maya Bhullar

August is here. It is time to think of the fights that will be coming up when legislatures come back into session. Here are some summer reading suggestions to make effective change.

Book Review

Aug 8, 2019

Colson Whitehead's 'The Nickel Boys': Surviving and resisting in Jim Crow Florida

Rohan Ghatage

Whitehead's new novel was spurred by a desire to understand the new American reality inaugurated in the era of Donald Trump.

Podcast

Aug 1, 2019

Pam Palmater reviews the first edition of her Reconciliation Book Club

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The Reconciliation Book Club is off and running. Listen to Pam Palmater's hopes for the book club, the response so far, and why she chose YouTube as the host for the club.

Columnists

Jul 31, 2019

Beat the heat with summer reads on food and climate

Lois Ross

Understanding how food and agriculture can be part of climate justice is fundamental. Here are some summer reads that can help.

Book Review

Jul 25, 2019

New novel portrays cycles of white violence in South Africa

Deena Dinat

How do human beings respond to profoundly inhuman events? This questions is at the heart of British author Damian Barr's debut, "You Will Be Safe Here."

Book Review

Jul 18, 2019

'The Seed': an incisive, yet generous, account of feminism and infertility

Christina Turner

Alexandra Kimball's book shows how successive waves of the feminist movement have either ignored or been openly hostile to infertile women.

Podcast

Jul 11, 2019

Summer reads and travels

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Two conversations -- Yahaya Baruwa, a Nigerian-Canadian writer who writes about living in two worlds; and Dave Kattenburg talks about do's and don'ts when travelling internationally as a journalist.

Book Review

Jul 11, 2019

New book challenges mainstream understandings of violence in Latin America

Brent Patterson

"Organized Violence" is rigorous in its research, scholarly while still being accessible, hard-hitting, and emotionally powerful.

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