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Does The 21st Century Belong to Canada’s Tories? Reviewing The Big Shift
I’ve just finished reading the Kindle version of The Big Shift, an analysis of current Canadian demographics by pollster Darrell Bricker and Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson. Let me say right off the bat: this has a definite place … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Can Cons, Media Watch, Politics
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Padding a Passionless Résumé: Reviewing Deborah Coyne’s Unscripted
There’s a passage in the second chapter of Deborah Coyne’s recently released memoir, Unscripted, when she talks about her youth and meeting a KGB agent who was bodyguarding a Russian tennis player who was staying with her family. I talked … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Libranos
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How Justin Trudeau Will Lose The Next Election: Reviewing Warren Kinsella’s Fight The Right
In Warren Kinsella’s perfect world, the Liberal Party of Canada would continually be elected to a perpetual majority, with the NDP as a patronized opposition and whatever conservative activity survived in Parliament as a squabbling internecine mess to which no … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Libranos, Media Watch
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A Few Books To Ponder
If there’s one major drawback to my iPad, it’s the addictiveness of the Amazon Kindle app. The ease with which I can obtain a book is so blatant that I sometimes get shocked by the amount of my credit card … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Odds & Ends
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“Make Doctor Who A Canuck?!” : Reviewing The Tower of Babble
Most of us, by now, are familiar with the BBC’s revival of Doctor Who, which happens to be one of their biggest properties. And no doubt some of you watched it on the CBC. What you might not know is, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Media Watch
Tagged Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Richard Stursberg
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