The Writers' Trust of Canada, in collaboration with Samara, has named Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights the Best Canadian Political Book of the Last 25 Years.
The Writers' Trust of Canada and Samara, a non-profit organization for citizen engagement in Canada's democratic system, held the contest to recognize books "that have captured the Canadian political imagination and contributed in a compelling and unique way to how Canadians understand a political issue, event, or personality."
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Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is a shocking and controversial look at the corruption of Canada's human rights commissions. "On January 11, 2008, I was summoned to a ...
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The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism. Shakespeare isn't around to write it -- so we have Paul Wells!Think of it. Two men on an opposite yet parallel t...
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