Articles tagged with: Canada
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The number one book in Canada, The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and Other Simple, Brilliant Things (Amy Einhorn Books, 2010) is discussed, as the author Neil Pasricha talks to Joseph Planta about all the awesome things in life.
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The bestselling author Derek Lundy discusses his new book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America (Knopf, 2010) with Joseph Planta. In the book, Lundy travels the American borders with Canada and Mexico atop a motorcycle and offers his observations of border-life, as well as America’s security concerns.
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Yadi Sharifirad, the author of The Flight of the Patriot: Escape from Revolutionary Iran (Thomas Allen, 2010), talks about his memoir about the brutal detention and torture he suffered in Iran, to his escape to Canada, with Joseph Planta.
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The author and historian John Boyko discusses his biography of R.B. Bennett, Canada’s 11th Prime Minister: Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation (Key Porter, 2010), Bennett’s legacy, the Great Depression, as well as comparisons of Stephen Harper with Bennett, with Joseph Planta.
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The author Judy Fong Bates discusses her memoir The Year of Finding Memory (Random House, 2010), her Canadian identity, heritage, and going back to China to learn more about her parents, with Joseph Planta.
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Northern cooking is profiled and discussed with Michele Genest as she and Joseph Planta discuss her new book The Boreal Gourmet: Adventures in Northern Cooking (Lost Moose, 2010); and she previews her upcoming event in Vancouver on June 3rd at Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks.
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The investigative journalist and author Harvey Cashore of the CBC discusses his new book The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-Year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth about Mulroney, Schreiber and the Airbus Scandal (Key Porter, 2010), with Joseph Planta.
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The bloggers John Chow and Michael Kwan discuss their new book, Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul (Morgan James, 2010), with Joseph Planta.
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The NDP Member of Parliament for Vancouver Kingsway Don Davies discusses his recent trip to the Philippines to observe the elections there, his work in Ottawa and in the constituency, and other political matters, with Joseph Planta.
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The bestselling author, economist, and managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute Brian Lee Crowley talks to Joseph Planta about the new book he’s co-authored with Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis, The Canadian Century: Moving Out of America’s Shadow (Key Porter, 2010).
