From -2017″>the Catalyst, Summer 2017
How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
By George Monbiot
Verso Press, 2016
Reviewed by Joe Gunn
George Monbiot is a maddening writer.
He baits the reader, starting off each of the 50 short essays in this book with a totally outrageous proposition. […]
From -2015-vol-38-no-2″>the Catalyst, Summer 2015
Fighting Over God: A Legal and Political History of Religious Freedom in Canada
By Janet Epp Buckingham
McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2014
Reviewed by Kathryn Teeluck
In Fighting Over God, Janet Epp Buckingham offers a fascinating exploration of the historical role of religion in Canadian political life.
She begins her […]
From -2017″>the Catalyst, Summer 2017
The Lightless Sky: A Twelve–Year–Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World
By Gulwali Passarlay
HarperOne, 2016
Reviewed by Bolu Coker
The Lightless Sky is an inspiring personal account of a twelve–year old boy’s journey to safety from Afghanistan to Europe. Gulwali Passarlay tells a story that brings to life […]
Volunteers call for the federal government to build on the newly–released Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy in Budget 2019 to end poverty in Canada.
Read Ian Van Haren’s review of the book “Valley of the Birdtail,” which examines the historical disparities between Indigenous and non–Indigenous communities in the Birdtail River valley in Manitoba.
Read CPJ’s press release here. On July 1, 2007, CPJ will open the doors of its new national office in Ottawa, and the Toronto office will close soon after.
Activists, former politicians, and national church leaders found something to agree on this morning. All were among the 47 distinguished signatories of a Human Rights Day statement urging the government to change their refugee policies.
June 2014Read the letterCPJ signed on to a letter supporting the inclusion of climate change in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
June 2014 Read the letter A day ahead of World Refugee Day 2014, CPJ wrote to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander calling on the federal government to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees.
November 2014Read the letter160 organizations from across Canada have come together to oppose parts of federal Bill C–43. An open letter was sent to Finance Minister Joe Oliver calling for the withdrawal of sections 172 and 173 in this Bill.
