Coming up: Women's March on Washington; Book Review - The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics by Jennifer Welsh; Fighting fake news one lie at a time; It's time to have a rational conversation about the oil sands
While no media organization is immune to sensationalist headlines, it is hard to see how the current frenzy is sustainable or helping to build understanding – which is arguably the point of mainstream news media.
Fake news about fake news; we have not started the year on a positive note.; Trudeau's Liberals, same as the old; Income inequality grows in Canada; Kentucky goes full speed down the anti-worker and anti-women road; SEIU slashes spending 30% in response to majority Republican elections; Book Review: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; What we shared this week.
When it was published in 1969, The Left Hand of Darkness reaped the following year's Hugo and Nebula prizes, two major awards for science fiction writing. The book's success helped to propel Ursula K. Le Guin as a figurehead for the genre. The Left Hand of Darkness is a brilliant, imaginative and provocative work that raised questions of great relevance for its time, and for today.
'Philippe's leadership in the 2004 coup d'état against Aristide led to the president's ouster, and Human Rights Watch accused him of overseeing unlawful killings. In the aftermath, Philippe — along with other Haitian police officers, politicians and drug traffickers — became entangled in a U.S. crackdown on Haiti as a narcotics hub for Colombian cocaine. … In the summer of 2007, a secret U.S. mission launched from the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to seize Philippe failed. There would be several other equally unsuccessful attempts.' Click on the link below for my assessment of the geopolitics of the 2004 coup in Haiti.
The top 5 recommended books from the Citizens' Press Arts & Culture section || Le top 5 de nos lectures de l'année.
'Mr. Clayton, whose clients have included Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Barclays Capital Inc., would succeed SEC Chairman Mary Jo White, another lawyer with a history of representing Wall Street banks before becoming a regulator.'
La journaliste française installée à Montréal, Émanuelle Walter, a déjà écrit sur les Premières Nations du Canada. Son premier livre, Sœurs Volées, raconte l'histoire des familles de femmes autochtones disparues et assassinées. L'auteure récidive avec un portrait de la région d'Eeyou Istchee Baie-James, sillonnée en compagnie de Roméo Saganash.
Turkish chickens coming home to roost.
Yasmina Khadra est un auteur algérien qui a publié bon nombre de romans au cours de son œuvre. Son dernier livre, Dieu n'habite pas La Havane, élève la capitale cubaine au statut de personnage vibrant et coloré. Chaque page de cette histoire rend hommage à La Havane, à sa musique, à ses quartiers, et à ses résidents, sans manquer de mettre en évidence les nombreuses contradictions qui y prennent place.
