Articles tagged with: Stephen Harper
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Senator Hugh Segal discusses his new book The Right Balance: Canada’s Conservative Tradition (Douglas & McIntyre, 2011), 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 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 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.
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The political commentator and consultant Warren Kinsella talks to Joseph Planta about the Helena Guergis and Rahim Jaffer matter, Gary Breitkreuz, and other federal political matters, the new iPad, the British elections and more.
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SFU communications professor Donald Gutstein discusses his book Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy (Key Porter, 2009), with Joseph Planta; highlighting some of the notable think tanks in Canada and their relationships with big business, and just how they in turn influence what’s reported in the media.
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Michael Byers, UBC professor of global politics and international law and bestselling author (Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For?) discusses his new book Who Owns the Arctic? Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009), with Joseph Planta; other than the politics and issues of Arctic sovereignty, they also discuss whether Byers will run federally again.
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‘One of Canada’s top five political minds,’ the conservative commentator Gerry Nicholls, former vice president of the National Citizen’s Coalition, talks to Joseph Planta about Stephen Harper, the Harper government, conservatism in Canada, and the Libertas Post, which Nicholls is editing.
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John Ibbitson, the Washington columnist and correspondent for The Globe and Mail, discusses his new book, Open and Shut: Why America Has Barack Obama, and Canada Has Stephen Harper (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta, as well as Ed Greenspon’s departure as editor, and Barack Obama’s new Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor.
