Undesirables: White Canada and the Kamagata Maru: by Ali Kazimi – Book Review

In today’s multicultural, inclusive Canada, we have come a long way in telling the true story of our (often checkered) past.  This was not always the case; indeed, for some years, the overt efforts of the Trudeau-era federal government to transform Canada into a model for tolerance and acceptance of newcomers were so successful that […]

A Matter of Life and Death or Something: by Ben Stephenson – Book Review

In the first few chapters of Ben Stephenson’s A Matter of Life and Death or Something, I was reminded of what I understood the world to be when I was a child. I thought my perception of the universe; adulthood and relationships reflected the truth of how the world revolves and functions. Typical of most […]