No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States, and the Origins of North American Air Defence, 1945-1958
The NORAD agreement, Canadian diplomat and scholar John Holmes has written, “was the logical culmination of defence arrangements on which both countries had been working for a decade, a compromise, acceptable to the times, between the logic of efficiency and political caution.”…
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Publishers of encyclopedias have always had the daunting task of determining what to include and the space to be given to any single subject. In today’s publishing world, price is also an important factor in selling the general public a ‘user friendly’…
Arctic Imperative, Is Canada Losing the North?
In August 1986, John Honderich, a lawyer and editorial page editor for the Toronto Star, took a leave of absence to bring together his two fascinations, the Arctic, and strategic affairs. At the time, a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and…
Free Trade — The Real Story
The book is a collection of interesting essays on issues relating to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA). David Bercuson, the Calgary historian, details how a number of our prime ministers supported some form of free trade with the United States to…
Political Wives: The Lives of the Saints
“There is no subject I cannot trivialize”, wrote Susan Riley. She then set out to do just that in her book, Political Wives with its vague and unexplained subtitle, The Lives of the Saints. The wives who appear in her book were…
The Vatican, Islam, and the Middle East
Critique de Léopold Battel
The North and Canada’s International Relations
This working group of fourteen, many of whom are widely known in Canada for their past participation in policy-shaping in either foreign or northern aspects, set themselves the task of putting flesh on a Government pronouncement in December 1986, acknowledging the importance…
Helmet of Flesh
Scott Symons’ Helmet of Flesh is a comical romp through the sexual landscape of Morocco and an eloquent paen to the fascinating culture of a country relatively unknown to Canadians. Helmet of Flesh is fun for those curious about the land of…
Home from the Hill: A History of the Métis in Western Canada
Few Canadians anywhere are aware that the prairies owe their existence as a part of Canada largely to the Métis and their leader Louis Riel. Largely by their efforts, it did not become another American state or a colony of Canada of…
My Grandfather’s House
Reading a Charles Ritchie book is a romp through another time and another place. My Grandfather’s House takes the reader on a passage through Ritchie’s imaginative childhood and youth, and leaves one wondering how could any one person know such an odd…
