Articles tagged with: politics
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Legendary broadcaster and writer Rafe Mair talks to Joseph Planta about his new collection of essays, What the Bleep Is Going On Here? (Harbour, 2008).
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Former NDP MP for Vancouver East (1979-1993) Margaret Mitchell talks to Joseph Planta about her memoir, No Laughing Matter: Adventure, Activism, and Politics (Granville Island, 2008).
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Legendary Edmonton bookseller, publisher and creator of The Canadian Encyclopedia, political activist and author, Mel Hurtig talks to Joseph Planta about his new book, The Truth About Canada: Some Important, Some Astonishing, and Some Truly Appalling Things all Canadians Should Know About Our Country (McClelland & Stewart, 2008).
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Tom Zytaruk, a staff reporter at the Now newspaper in Surrey talks to Joseph Planta about his new book, Like a Rock: The Chuck Cadman Story (Harbour, 2008), and the controversy that’s ensued with regards to the insurance policy the Conservative Party offered to the late Surrey North MP who died of cancer in 2005.
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Broadcaster Ken Rockburn, the host of Talk Politics on CPAC, talks to Joseph Planta about his new book Rockburn: The CPAC Interviews, a collection of some of his notable interviews with some of the interesting personalities of our time.
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Liberal MP for Ajax-Pickering, Mark Holland talks to Joseph Planta about the latest goings-on in Ottawa: Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien and Environment minister John Baird; the Mulroney-Schreiber affair; the forthcoming budget; Joan Beatty’s nomination; and whether the Afghanistan mission should continue.
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Broadcaster, writer, actor, lecturer, addictions expert, Community Liaison at Langara College, and blogger David Berner talks to Joseph Planta about his career in broadcasting, the state of Vancouver politics, and more.
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Author, blogger, and former Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella talks to Joseph Planta about his recent book The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win (Dundurn Group, 2007), a highly readable book on how to win and survive in politics and business.
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Author and Toronto Star columnist Richard Gwyn talks to Joseph Planta about his biography of Canada’s first prime minister, John A: The Man Who Made Us (Random House, 2007).
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John Gray is considered one of the ‘most important living philosophers’ in the world today. He recently talked to Joseph Planta about his newest book Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Doubleday, 2007).
