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Written on 10 May, 2010 at 11:31 in
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Review Paul Tuns Notably, social issues absent from negotiations between two left-of-center parties
How We Almost Gave the Tories the Boot
(The Inside Story Behind the Coalition) by Brian Topp
(Lorimer, $24.95, 192 pp.)
The coalition that almost usurped power from the Conservatives in the fall of 2008 seems like a distant memory in the spring of 2010, but How We Almost Gave the Tories the Boot (The Inside Story Behind the Coalition), the political memoir of one ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Dec, 2009 at 8:58 in
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Review by Oswald Clark As I See It by Michael Coren (Freedom Press, $21.95 paperback, 306 pages)
When I went to university in the United States, I stopped following Canadian news, but I did continue reading a few Canadian columnists on the internet. One of those columnists was Michael Coren. There are many reasons why I should not have read him. He supports more government intervention than I, an economist, would like. He has what ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Nov, 2009 at 8:02 in
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Review by Rory Leishman Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values by Brian Lee Crowley (Key Porter, $34.95, 360 pages)
In an important new book, Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values, Brian Lee Crowley persuasively argues that the future prosperity of Canada depends on a revival of marriage and the family.
For Crowley, this is a new understanding. Until last year, he was living in a casual, common-law relationship. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Feb, 2009 at 6:58 in
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Review Harley Price Harley Price reviews William Gairdners’ recent works, which seek to defend universals in a relativistic age. (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Nov, 2008 at 19:46 in
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Editor's Note: On Sept. 22, Interim Publishing released The Tyranny of Nice: How Canada Crushes Freedom in the Name of Human Rights (and Why It Matters to Americans) as an e-book (electronic book) and two weeks later as a paperback (see advertisement on page 7). Internationally reknowned columnist Mark Steyn wrote the introduction. Interim editor Paul Tuns interviewed the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2008 at 8:29 in
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Review Rebecca Walberg Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again by David Frum (Doubleday, $29.95, 224 pages)
David Frum, the Canadian speechwriter to George Bush during his first term, gained international notoriety as the originator of the phrase, “Axis of Evil.” Prior to that, he was known primarily as a journalist and writer, in particular ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 May, 2008 at 13:33 in
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Review John von Heyking
Nation of Bastards: Essays on the End of Marriage by Douglas Farrow (BPS Books, $15.95, 116 pages)
In one of the more haunting passages in Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville writes: “Thus, not only does democracy make each man forget his ancestors, but it hides ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Apr, 2008 at 8:46 in
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Review Paul Tuns
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg (Knopf, $27, 253 pages)
Bjorn Lomborg is a professor at the Copenhagen Business School and initiator of the Copenhagen Consensus (a think tank that tackles world problems), but is probably best known as the skeptical environmentalist. In his most recent ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2008 at 10:53 in
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Review Frank Monozlai Darwin Day in America; How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science by John G. West (ISI Books, $26.95, 450 pages)
The success of modern science in providing us with all sorts of material goods, medical wonders and solutions for an array of societal problems has granted it well-deserved respect in the minds of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2008 at 10:49 in
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Review Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor Out From Under: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting by Dawn Stefanowicz (Annotation Press, $14.95, 245 pages)
It was while I was reading Dawn Stefanowicz’s new book that I came upon a review in the Toronto Sunby critic Jim Slotek of the recent movie, For theBible Tells Me So that was headlined, “A serious ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jan, 2008 at 15:27 in
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Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical’s Lament by Randall Balmer (Basic Books, $19.50, 242 pp.)
In 1925, Dayton’s town fathers saw an opportunity to bring national attention to their little burg in east Tennessee. They met with John Scopes, a supply teacher, to obtain his co-operation in challenging the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Aug, 2007 at 14:11 in
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Review Russ Kuykendall The Interim
The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World
By John O'Sullivan (Regnery, 334 pages $34.95)
Be not afraid! - John Paul II, 1978
You turn ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Aug, 2007 at 14:08 in
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Review Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor August 2007
The Bishop of Rwanda
By John Rucyahana with James Riordan (Thomas Nelson Inc.,231 pages, $24.99 )
Although the subtitle to the book indicates that the main theme is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Aug, 2007 at 13:59 in
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Review Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor
Stop the Presses! The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution By Joseph Farah (WND Books 273 pages, $37.95)
There was a time, in the bad old days, when the people of North America were subjected to very limited sources of news. Influential publications like the N.Y. Times, and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Jul, 2007 at 13:10 in
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Review Theresa Smyth The Interim
State vs. Church: What Christians Can Do
to Save Canada from Liberal Tyranny
Written and published by Timothy Bloedow ($25, $20 pb, 189 pgs)
“One of the most dangerous – and fundamentally false – views held by Canada’s establishment leaders today,” says Timothy Bloedow, is “that the options before us are a civil government that is influenced by religion ... (Continue reading)
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