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Book Review: Canada's Economic Apartheid

Tue, 2007-03-27 09:30 — Scott Neigh

One fairly common response to documents such as this book is the quite sensible observation that it is not reports, books, studies, and research, research, research that is going to change the world -- only organizing will do that. At the same time, this cynicism about the role of documents can easily be taken too far. Carefully crafted written words can have a tremendous impact. Saying this is not buying into...

(See the full review here at A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land.)

Book Review: Racial Profiling in Canada

Thu, 2007-02-08 17:26 — Scott Neigh

I had read about racial profiling before, but the first time I was really made aware of it in a personal way was while on a whitewater rafting trip at a fairly cushy, decidedly not-wild portion of the Ottawa River. We were a large group of mostly young people who were either part of the same workplace or had friends in that workplace, so some people knew each other well and others not at all. One evening, in amongst various sorts of partying-related activities, about ten from this larger group were sitting around a camp fire, talking -- eight young white women and men, and two young Black men. The conversation turned to past interactions with the police...

See the full review at A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land.

The despair of politics

Thu, 2007-01-18 08:25 — pas

Persuasive political writing (of a kind I am able to stomach these days) appears toward the end of Rory Stewart's, The Places in Between.  Bookended by his personal testimony of walking through Afghanistan only two weeks after the new (US puppet) "government" had been established, this passing indictment of the window-dressing/McEnlightenment model of international intervention casts a far longer, darker shadow than it would have otherwise.  Readers are invited to read my quasi-review (of the phenomenon of "maverick" journalists) at pas au-delà.

Happy New Year to all, but especially to Nick.

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