by Kathleen Adamson, September 24, 2021 Jigging for Halibut with Tsinii, Sara Florence Davidson and Richard Davidson, Illustrated by Janine Gibbons, HighWater Press, September 27, 2021, 40 pp., $21.73 Jigging for Halibut with Tsinii is a tour de force. Written by Sara Florence Davidson, it is based on memories of her father Robert Davidson Jr’s … [Read more...] about Jigging for Halibut with Tsinii: Its relatively still waters run deep
#BlackinSchool: How school reinforces racism
By Gail Picco, September 13, 2021 #BlackinSchool, Habiba Cooper Diallo, University of Regina Press, September 4, 2021, 122 pp., $20.95 Part of a journal Habiba Cooper Diallo kept when she attended high school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, #BlackinSchool establishes how ideas about the nature of Black people, specifically Black bodies, has been baked into the consciousness of … [Read more...] about #BlackinSchool: How school reinforces racism
Deaths of Despair: how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America’s working class
By Kathleen Adamson, September 8, 2021 Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Princeton University Press, March 17, 2020, 312 pp., $32.10 Now that the COVID pandemic is entering its 18th month, we can observe the larger ripple effects reaching out from its epicentre. The danger to human life from the pandemic is accompanied by … [Read more...] about Deaths of Despair: how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America’s working class
Effective Fundraising: Let’s Talk Boards
By Roger Ali (September 3, 2021) Effective Fundraising: The Trustee’s Role and Beyond, F. Warren McFarlan, Wiley, March 30, 2021, 208 pp., $35.36 (September 3, 2021) Effective Fundraising is an indispensable guide to help boards and executives new to fundraising and asking for money. The book is a blueprint on everything you need to know from governance to the major … [Read more...] about Effective Fundraising: Let’s Talk Boards
An excellent time to review Eternity Martis’ memoir of campus life
By Kathleen Adamson August 31, 2021 They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up, Eternity Martis, Random House of Canada, March 15, 2020, 256 pp., $25.00 As students across the globe prepare to begin university terms, it is an excellent time to review Eternity Martis’ memoir, They said this would be fun. As a Black university student in London, … [Read more...] about An excellent time to review Eternity Martis’ memoir of campus life