Articles tagged with: politics
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The author and poet George Fetherling discusses his new novel, Walt Whitman’s Secret (Random House, 2010), with Joseph Planta.
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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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Discussed is the bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed novel Illustrado by Miguel Syjuco, who joins Joseph Planta to talk about Filipino culture, history, politics, arts, and more, topics covered in the book.
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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 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 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).
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The journalist and author Marci McDonald discusses her new book The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada (Random House, 2010), with Joseph Planta.
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The bestselling author, cultural critic, and English professor Laura Penny discusses her new book More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They’re Right (McClelland & Stewart, 2010), with Joseph Planta.
