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  • The Trouble with Brunch

    Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure

    door Shawn Micallef ...
    Serie series Exploded Views
    One of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced, increasingly outré food by hungover waitstaff. For some, the ritual we call brunch is a beloved pastime; for others, a bedeviling waste of time. But what does its popularity say about shifting attitudes towards social status and leisure? In ... Meer lezen

    6,46 €

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  • The Gift of Ford

    Rob Ford: How Toronto's Unlikeliest Man Became its Most Notorious Mayor

    door Ivor Tossell ...
    Following widespread news that Toronto Police are in possession of the alleged Rob Ford crack cocaine video, there has never been a better time to read the essential backgrounder to Rob Ford's increasingly wild and erratic mayoralty.When people talk about recalling politicians, it's usually because the politician delivered something other than what they advertised, and the voters voted for--lies, ... Meer lezen

    1,78 €

  • Some Great Idea

    Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

    door Edward Keenan ...
    Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly ... Meer lezen

    6,46 €

  • How Rob Ford Happened

    A History of the Toronto Mayor from the Pages of the National Post

    door The National Post ...
    Drawing on a wealth of articles written by by National Post journalists including Christie Blatchford, Jonathan Kay, Andrew Coyne, Chris Selley and more, How Rob Ford Happened examines the precipitous rise and calamitous fall of one of the most controversial public figures in Canadian political history. From his early days as a crusading suburban city councillor to his reign as Mayor of Toronto ... Meer lezen

    7,99 €

  • Duffy

    Stardom to Senate to Scandal

    door Dan Leger ...
    He cast himself as the ultimate insider, Parliament Hill’s man in the know. It made him a household name and one of the Canada’s bestpaid journalists. But Duffy wanted to get even closer and lobbied his way into the Canadian Senate, with dire results. Veteran journalist Dan Leger tells the story of Duffy’s rise to the top in Canadian media, his entanglement with the Harper Conservatives, and the ... Meer lezen

    7,09 €

  • Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable

    How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notorious Mayor

    door Mark Towhey, Johanna Schneller ...
    Rob Ford-the most ridiculed and scandal-ridden mayor-is an international celebrity. When the photo of him smoking crack cocaine circulated, garnering billions of hits, it was the icing on the cake. Ford, not just the favorite buffoon of late-night comics and journalists, was also a known alcoholic and the subject of legal, political, and police investigations-stripped of his mayoral powers by ... Meer lezen

    19,00 €

  • Rob Ford - The inside story of the weirdest mayoralty in Toronto

    door Toronto Life ...
    Rob Ford - The inside story of the weirdest mayoralty in Torontopublished in Toronto Life magazine as:The Incredible Shrinking Mayorby Marci McDonald ... Meer lezen

    1,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Tragedy in the Commons

    Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada's Failing Democracy

    door Alison Loat, Michael MacMillan ...
    In Tragedy in the Commons, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, founders of the non-partisan think tank Samara, draw on an astonishing eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada.Though Canada is at the top of international rankings of democracies, Canadians themselves ... Meer lezen

    11,65 €

  • Straphanger

    Surviving the End of the Automobile Age

    door Taras Grescoe ...
    Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering—a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford ... Meer lezen

    12,29 €

  • Shafia Trial

    From the pages of The Kingston Whig-Standard

    door The Kingston Whig-Standard ...
    Three members of a Montreal family of Afghan descent are convicted in January 2012 of first-degree murder in the so-called "honour killing" drowning deaths of four members of their family -- three teenage girls and an adult woman -- in June 2009 at the Kingston Mills locks on the Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ont. ... Meer lezen

    1,99 €

  • Last Man in Tower

    door Aravind Adiga ...
    The magnificent new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger:LONGLISTED FOR THE 2013 IMPAC AWARD.Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it is unimpeachably pucca. Despite its location close to the airport, under the flight path of 747s and bordered by slums, it has... ... Meer lezen

    8,49 €

  • Another Day in the Death of America

    A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

    door Gary Younge ...
    Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism****Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non FictionOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary ... Meer lezen

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