Articles tagged with: Canada
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A new book, The Pilgrimage of Stephen Harper (ECW Press, 2005) attempts to shed a little more light on the politics and faith of Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper. Its author Lloyd Mackey talked with Joseph Planta about the book, and about the man who could be prime minister.
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Joseph Planta has a neat conversation with the sports columnist and author Jim Taylor, who has edited a new book, The Best of Jim Coleman: Fifty Years of Canadian Sport from the Man Who Saw it All (Harbour, 2005). It’s a collection of the legendary Coleman’s classic columns representing a remarkable look back at Canada and the sports that the country watched.
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Jonathan Ross of TDH Strategies, a communciations and public policy firm, talked with Joseph Planta about all matter of politics–from Christy Clark’s political future after losing the NPA mayoralty nomination, to the future of Larry Campbell as a senator, to the federal scene about a Martin cabinet shuffle, Pierre Pettigrew, and Stephen Harper’s grasp of the leadership of the Conservative Party.
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The National Post’s Stewart Bell talked with Joseph Planta about his latest book, The Martyr’s Oath: The Apprenticeship of a Homegrown Terrorist.
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Author Hugo Bonjean talked with Joseph Planta about his book, In the Eyes of Anahita (Eagle Vision, 2004), a thought-provoking book looking at the condition of the developing world in South America, and how North Americans and others are part of the problems there. The book is fictionalised novel, but it’s a very thoughtful book about the condition of the world today.
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Does Canada nurture and export terrorism around the world? Stewart Bell, Chief Reporter for the National Post and the author of Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World (Wiley, 2005) talked with Joseph Planta about Canadian terrorism past and present. His is often a shocking, but recommended and prescient book.
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NDP House Leader and MP for Vancouver East, Libby Davies talked with Joseph Planta about her party’s conditional support for Prime Minister Martin’s budget, which perhaps gives the Liberals a badly needed reprieve.
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Geoffrey Gaul, the Director of Legal Services for the Criminal Justice Branch of the British Columbia Ministry of the Attorney General, talked with Joseph Planta about the prosecution of the Air India trial, of which he was the Crown’s media spokesperson; as well he addressed the length of time it has taken for the Robert Pickton trial to proceed.
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Nancy Southam, the author of Pierre: Colleagues and Friends Talk about the Trudeau They Knew (McClelland and Stewart, 2005), talked with Joseph Planta about the new memoir she’s edited about the personal and private side of Pierre Trudeau.
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Comedian Brent Butt will be hosting the 2005 Juno Awards, Sunday, 03 April 2005. The co-creator, producer and writer of Corner Gas, the popular CTV program, spoke with Joseph Planta about hosting the Junos, Canadian music, performing, and the much-anticipated third season of the hit, Corner Gas.
