On Two-tier Senators

By Andrew Potter - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 12:10 PM - 30 Comments

And so, with the economy booming and the country’s books shipshape, we can now return to the pressing topic of Senate reform.

Today, Steven Fletcher introduced a bill to set term limits for new senators: eight years, non-renewable. after which they are pasture-ized, and given “the same severance as Members of the House of Commons.”

Whoops, did I say new senators? Not quite. The press release hasn’t been posted yet, but the new bill will apply to all senators appointed after the 2008 General Election, including the 18 that Harper appointed in a panic.

I’m not sure how this is supposed to work. Were Duffy, Brazeau, et al told that this bill was in the works? Was it a condition of appointment that these new senators promise to support this legislation? Is that legal?

I’m genuinely at sea here, not sure what I think about this. So like everything else, I toss it out to the crowd.

No news here

By Michael Friscolanti - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 12:00 PM - 2 Comments

Canada’s News Hall of Fame (yes, there is such a thing) is a collection of engraved plaques shaped like single quotation marks. The location has changed quite a few times over the years, but these days the wall display can be found hanging in a swank hotel in downtown Toronto. In the basement. In a room that is locked most of the time. Even if someone did happen to stumble across the exhibit, he would have a tough time figuring out exactly what it is. The sign, CANADIAN NEWS HALL OF FAME, is missing a few letters.

It reads: CANADIAN NE ALL OF FA E.

Something else is sorely lacking: new members. The shrine that is supposed to showcase the country’s most renowned and respected reporters—names like Gordon Sinclair, June Callwood, Knowlton Nash, and Austin “Dink” Carroll—has not inducted anyone since 2001. “One prefers journalists who don’t take life too seriously,” says Peter Worthington, founding editor of the Toronto Sun tabloid and himself a Hall of Famer. “But I do think it’s a pity. We all know people in this business who are somewhat special, and the trouble is when they die or retire, they’re forgotten.”

Continue…

Facebook follies

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:51 AM - 1 Comment

Sharon Adams wanted to give women a realistic portrayal of the effects of breast cancer surgery when she put photos of her mastectomy scar on Facebook. Instead the social-networking site removed the pictures within hours, claiming they were “sexual and abusive.” So the mother of four, who lives in Berkshire, England, fought back. More than 800 people joined an online group, Get Sharon Adams’ Pictures Back on Facebook, to pressure the social website. Finally Facebook backed down. But Adams is still steamed: “There is nothing sexual about them. Facebook has groups about sexual positions and some groups which are bordering on racist but they ban this. All I want to do is raise awareness of breast cancer.”

The Daily Mail

Pakistan calls on the public for help

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:40 AM - 1 Comment

Pakistan is offering cash bounties for help leading to the capture of top Pakistani Taliban leaders who have claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Lahore yesterday that killed at least 24 people and wounded more than 200. Two additional bomb attacks in Peshawar today killed another 10. The Taliban had warned of fresh attacks following yesterday’s carnage. “Can the people who deprived mothers, sisters and daughters of their roofs and rendered them homeless in their own country be called Muslim and patriotic Pakistanis?” read the government announcement, which was published in newspapers along with photos of the wanted men. “Such people are indeed killers of humanity and deserve punishment. Please decide yourself and help the government bring them to justice.”

Al Jazeera

Law society looks after its own

By Kate Lunau - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:40 AM - 1 Comment

Canada’s law societies regulate the legal profession in the public interest—but the public interest, and that of lawyers, aren’t always the same. This was made glaringly apparent on May 8, when the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick upheld a decision finding that province’s law society deliberately shut a title insurance provider out of the local land title search business. “Members of the law society are not happy with the encroachment on what has traditionally been the work of lawyers,” the trial judge said in his decision back in 2007.

Title insurance, which replaces a lawyer’s certificate of title by insuring a homeowner’s interest in the property, can save consumers time and money. When First Canadian Title Co. (FCTC) came to New Brunswick in 1996, lawyers there no doubt felt threatened: almost half of them practised real property law. In a letter cited in court documents, one law society member complained of the “Yankee ingenuity” of an outside company trying to fill its pockets “with New Brunswickers’ dollars.” (FCTC is a subsidiary of First American Title Co.)

Continue…

"They were giving me what they thought was helpful advice, which obviously I ignored."

By Jaime Weinman - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM - 0 Comments

Stephanie Law has an excellent interview with writer-producer (and sometime TV Guidance commenter) Mark Farrell, showrunner of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and one of the developers of Corner Gas. He talks about the writing process, the things he looks for in a writer (on a topical show like 22 Minutes, it’s a writer who can get used to writing a lot of material that won’t get on the show) his new pilot “Dan For Mayor,” and the fact that, apparently, the CBC does not have a blacklist for writers who cross over to another network:

Worst advice I received: two very senior people told me that I should not work on Corner Gas (in the early days before Brent and I wrote the first 2 scripts) because it was a CTV show and CBC wouldn’t work with me (no one from CBC said this) ever again if I did. I’m not going to say who they were. And they weren’t threatening me, they were giving me what they thought was helpful advice, which obviously I ignored.

Be sure to scroll down to the comments section, where Farrell provides some additional information about the process of writing 22 Minutes.

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2616799&w=560&h=340&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26]

About those tapes (III)

By Aaron Wherry - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:19 AM - 15 Comments

The NDP’s Pat Martin has been awfully quiet of late. No puppet shows. No screamed outbursts. Hardly more than the odd question in QP. Heartening to see then that he didn’t let Mr. Harper’s “tapes” threat go without ominous comment.

New Democrat MP Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre) told the Star all Harper has left is “mudslinging” to divert the public’s attention away from “the appalling economic situation he’s got all of us in.

“We have really stooped to a new low in Canadian politics if that’s what it comes down to in the time of economic crisis,” Martin said. ”His tone implied something sinister on Ignatieff. It is the cheapest kind of mudslinging because it invokes suspicion without any real substance.”

Do you live in a smart city?

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM - 14 Comments

For the full interactive map, which allows you to compare and contrast your hometown with nearly 5,000 other Canadian cities and communities, click here.

	THE CHARTS
	The Big City Comparison
	The Most Cultured
	The Most Active

RELATED ARTICLES

Canada’s smartest cities
Will yours help you thrive in tough times, or leave you to fall behind? Now, more than ever, it matters.

Quebec vs. Windsor
A tale of two cities and their lessons of economic resilience

How smart is your city?

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:10 AM - 11 Comments

See how Canada’s major cities stack up, from best to worst, and whether they’ve risen or declined in the past two years. The biggest didn’t necessarily do best (Saskatoon beats Toronto) and it wasn’t only boom towns that did well (Calgary is No. 1, but Guelph, Ont., is up there, too). Cities with the most opportunities for lifelong learning topped this list from the Canadian Council on Learning—and won their residents safer neighbourhoods, better health, and even higher wages. How did your city fare?

indicates the 2007-’09 trend

CITY	OVERALL SCORE		LEARNING TO KNOW	LEARNING TO DO	LEARNING TO LIVE	LEARNING TO BE
Calgary	89		5.7	7.1	5.7	7.3
Victoria	88		6.0	7.0	5.5	7.1
Saskatoon	86		4.0	6.4	6.1	7.1
Guelph, Ont.	85		5.2	6.6	7.3	6.1
Barrie, Ont.	84		5.3	7.2	5.8	6.0
Ottawa	84		6.0	6.9	5.6	6.2
Regina	84		3.7	6.2	6.8	6.7
Kitchener, Ont.	83		5.5	6.6	5.8	6.1
Edmonton	82		5.6	7.0	5.6	5.6
Kelowna, B.C.	82		5.4	6.8	5.7	5.7
Oshawa, Ont.	81		5.2	6.7	6.0	5.5
Winnipeg	81		4.1	6.9	5.6	5.8
Brampton, Ont.	80		6.1	6.5	5.3	5.4
Halifax	80		3.8	6.2	4.8	6.2
Mississauga, Ont.	80		6.1	6.6	5.3	5.4
Toronto	80		6.1	6.6	5.5	5.4
Gatineau, Que.	79		4.5	6.8	5.5	5.1
Kingston, Ont.	79		5.4	6.2	5.9	5.3
London, Ont.	79		5.3	7.1	5.5	4.9
Fredericton	78		3.6	5.9	5.8	5.6
Hamilton, Ont.	77		5.3	6.5	5.8	4.7
St. Catharines, Ont.	77		5.2	6.6	5.2	4.8
Thunder Bay, Ont.	77		5.2	6.4	5.5	4.9
Vancouver	77		6.4	6.1	4.7	5.1
Québec	76		4.6	6.5	4.2	5.1
Abbotsford, B.C.	74		5.4	5.7	4.3	4.9
St. John’s	74		4.5	6.2	4.0	5.0
Windsor, Ont.	74		5.5	6.1	6.0	4.2
Charlottetown	73		2.7	6.0	4.4	4.9
Sudbury, Ont.	72		5.0	5.2	4.9	4.8
Moncton, N.B.	70		3.2	5.6	4.8	4.3
Longueuil, Que.	69		4.8	5.6	3.8	4.1
Laval, Que.	68		4.8	5.5	3.8	4.1
Montréal	68		4.8	5.5	3.8	4.0
Saint John, N.B.	67		3.3	6.5	4.0	3.0
Sherbrooke, Que.	65		4.3	4.4	4.4	3.8
Trois-Rivières, Que.	61		4.2	3.9	3.4	3.6
Saguenay, Que.	60		4.1	3.9	2.9	3.5

Source: Canadian Council on Learning, 2009 Composite Learning Index

The Most Cultured – The Most Active – Return to Smart Cities

Canada's most active cities

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM - 13 Comments

More than half of all households in Calgary, Ottawa-Gatineau, Victoria and Saskatoon spent money on sports and recreation during 2006, according to the latest report by the Canadian Council on Learning. The Ottawa-based organization measures lifelong learning opportunities in communities, and leisure pursuits are integral to cultural engagement—residents who play in local clubs may feel more connected to their hometown. Go team.

Source: Statistics Canada, special tabulation, unpublished data, Survey of Household Spending, 2006. Unless indicated, data reflects Census Metropolitan Areas.

* Data for these cities only available at the economic region level.

The Big City Comparison – The Most Cultured – Return to Smart Cities

Jim Flaherty calls off the attack ads (II)

By Aaron Wherry - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:01 AM - 7 Comments

Well, not really, but still…

“This is a serious time, not a time for partisan games.”

Canada's most cultured cities

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM - 28 Comments

Calgary, the city that caused an uproar in the rest of Canada when it topped our list of Most Cultured Cities last year, comes out on top again. But of the top five cities on the Canadian Council on Learning’s “learning to be” pillar, four—Calgary, Victoria, Saskatoon and Regina—are in Western Canada. A closer look at this list of some of the largest cities and urban areas shows that Victoria had the most readers, Calgary had the highest percentage of museum-goers, and more households in Saskatoon than anywhere attended paid performing arts events. And what of cities like Montreal and Toronto? Check near the bottom of the lists.

 
Source: Statistics Canada, special tabulation, unpublished data, Survey of Household Spending, 2007. Unless indicated, data reflects Census Metropolitan Areas.

* Data for these cities only available at the economic region level.

The Big City Comparison – The Most Active – Return to Smart Cities

So, no buyers for Chalk River, huh? – Liveblogging Lisa Raitt on the sale of AECL's reactor building division

By kadyomalley - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM - 10 Comments

ITQ heads over to the National Press Theatre to watch Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt makes it official: She’s selling off shares in the AECL division that actually makes money, at least in theory – and with lots and lots of subsidies — and bringing in outside experts to manage the beleaguered Chalk River unit.

11:01:10 AM
Greetings from the hallowed halls of the National Press Building, where I’m one of the first few reporters to arrive on the scene, which gave ITQ a front-row seat to witness the press gallery logistics team in action, first performing the all-important setting-up-of-the-conference call, and then politely, but firmly, ejecting from the press theatre a Liberal MP who wanted to watch the announcement, but didn’t plan on delivering her party’s official reaction from the podium. We have rules, y’all, when it comes to allowing politicians on to our turf, and freerange, open concept scrummage is best done in one of the many other venues better suited for such activities. Honestly, if we gave government and opposition MPs a free pass, it would quickly degenerate into a battle over which side could fill the most seats, with the working press eventually relegated to the hallway outside.

Apparently, opposition MPs were also barred from the technical meeting earlier this morning, which, according to our MP, constitutes a “travesty”. Such is the price one pays for open and accountable government, I guess.

Anyway, the room is starting to fill up with legitimate press conference attendees — one of whom, of course, whistling the theme from The Simpsons — and the press kits are being handed. The government, you will be pleased if not entirely surprised to learn, is about to “move forward” on the restructuring of AECL, although the words “privatize”, “sale” or “open to bidders” appear nowhere in the two page release.

11:14:47 AM
Thirty second warning. Places, everybody!

11:16:46 AM
And – here’s the minister! Oh, and we *will* get the Liberal — and NDP — reaction after all, from David McGuinty and Nathan Cullen, respectively. First, though, a few words from Lisa Raitt.

Continue…

Cherry juice is the new sports drink

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:50 AM - 0 Comments

Move over Gatorade, tart cherry juice could be the next big sports drink. In a small study of six adults aged 18 to 50 who drank 10.5 ounces of all-natural cherry juice twice a day for seven days before and on the day of a long-distance relay, the juice drinkers had significantly less muscle pain after the race compared to adults who drank other types of juice. The study was conducted by a research team at Oregon Health & Science University, and found that on a scale from 0 to 10, the runners who drank cherry juice as a “sports drink” had a 2-point lower self-reported pain level after finishing the race. More research needs to be done to understand the effects of tart cherry juice, but researchers say the early findings indicate the juice may work like common anti-inflammatory medications.

Weber Shandwick Worldwide

Correction Corner

By Jaime Weinman - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM - 0 Comments

Thanks to a reader for pointing out a mistake in my article on “Happy Birthday”: the song is not, in fact, under copyright in Canada, but entered the public domain in Canada in 1985. (Warner/Chappell sent the reader a letter to this effect in 1997.) I recall being told, in law school, that the song was under copyright everywhere, but apparently this was wrong — which could be taken as further proof that you shouldn’t believe everything lawyers tell you.

To elaborate a little on the Police Squad! anecdote from the article: there’s an episode of Police Squad! where someone says “And now, let’s sing something different” and then the party guests begin to sing “Happy Birthday.” When the show was released on VHS, they didn’t want to pay to use “Happy Birthday,” so somebody got the clever and very ZAZ-esque idea to use the line “something different” as the cue for an original joke song: “Something different, oo-oo…”

When the show was released on DVD, they restored the original version of the episode, but because so many people had first encountered it on VHS, there was a lot of disappointment expressed online over the removal of the “Something Different” joke. I suppose that’s a tribute to whoever came up with that solution in the first place.

Is a therapist allowed to do that?

By Nicholas Köhler - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:40 AM - 9 Comments

Early on in the half-hour HBO drama In Treatment, Dr. Paul Weston, a therapist portrayed with understated aplomb by the Irish actor Gabriel Byrne, is seen struggling to unclog the toilet in his home practice. Soon, Laura arrives, an alluring 30-year-old anesthesiologist who insists both that she is in love with him and that he secretly loves her. “I am not a realistic option,” Paul tells her, addressing an infatuation common to psychoanalysis called erotic transference. Suddenly, Laura stands. “I need to pee,” she says. “It’s blocked up,” replies Paul. Laura moves to the door to Paul’s home, domain of his wife and children. Paul grows uncomfortable. “I bet that didn’t come up in med school—a patient in love with the therapist asks to use a bathroom,” says Laura. “What should the therapist do?”

Actually, the question rarely comes up. “This is why I have ambivalence about the show, it seems like there’s a career’s worth of ethical dilemmas in every season,” says Ryan Howes, an L.A. psychologist who groans each time an episode appears in his TiVo cue, so much does it feel like a continuation of his workday. “I find myself doing a lot of backseat driving.” Yet he’s hooked, as are many therapists, who hail the drama as the most accurate depiction of their work yet to hit movie and TV screens. At once cerebral and earthy—how often do TV plots turn on a toilet plunger?—as well as gloriously talky, In Treatment, now in its second season on HBO Canada, is as close to theatre as it is to the 50-minute sessions it so faithfully reproduces. And it’s at least as prone to hyperbole.

Continue…

A Grey's Anatomy goner

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM - 0 Comments

Dr. George O’Malley (T.R. Knight) who appeared to be dying at the end of the last season of Grey’s Anatomy, is going to stay dead. Knight, who has been openly unsatisfied with the writing for his character and has feuded with the show’s creator, asked to be let go from the hit series last year, and when Grey’s Anatomy lets someone go, they usually kill him first. Now the question is, what’s going to happen to the other character whose actor wanted to be let go from the show, Izzie (Katherine Heigl) — she was also under the knife in the season finale, and even met George in what appeared to be heaven. Apparently being in heaven and not being on Grey’s Anatomy are the same thing.

E! Online

The lady Boyles over

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM - 1 Comment

The pressure of instant stardom may be too much for Susan Boyle. The 48-year-old songbird reportedly unleashed a couple of curse-laden rants at fellow guests and a bobby at the Wembley Plaza Hotel in North London—even though she made it to the next round of “Britain’s Got Talent.” Witness accounts say she lost her composure Tuesday after watching a replay of the latest instalment of the contest on TV in the hotel bar. Apparently she grew irked after seeing the judges compliment one of her fellow contestants. She cut loose another string of curses on Wednesday after a couple approached her in the hotel lobby, dropping plenty of F-bombs, according to reports. The lesson in all of this? You can take the squirrelly woman out of her Scottish village …

New York Daily News

Show him the money — or at least the process … please

By macleans.ca - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:29 AM - 1 Comment

CBC reports that the unfailingly courteous Preston Manning came perilously close to criticizing how the Conservatives have handled research funding yesterday, acknowledging that there is widespread confusion — even “suspicion” — over the byzantine application process. He blamed much of the problem on a lack of clarity and transparency, noting that there is “no agreement on definitions” for terms like “infrastructure”, and called on the prime minister to “make a declaration that he appreciates the importance of science”. Manning made the comments at a one-day forum on science policy hosted by the not-for-profit Public Policy Forum.

CBC News

Tamil questions that can't be asked

By Mark Steyn - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:20 AM - 179 Comments

The other day, one of the least soft-headed of Canadian columnists, Lorrie Goldstein, wrote a piece in the Toronto Sun called “Protest backlash unearths racism”:

“Let’s not pretend that much of the condemnation of Tamils in Canada for protesting the plight of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka isn’t racist.

“Any journalist who’s been around knows what’s going on and we have an obligation to speak up.”

I’ve been around. Well, okay, I’ve been nearby, as Mary Tyler Moore liked to say. And, insofar as I feel an obligation to speak up, it’s only to wonder at how far even the remarkably tensile concept of “racism” can be stretched.

Continue…

This hurts

By Martin Patriquin - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM - 0 Comments

Nancy Michaud was a wife and mother who worked as political attaché for Quebec Natural Resources Minister Claude Béchard. She was murdered just over a year ago. There are details of the murder that don’t need to be rehashed here; all is to say that her murderer, Francis Proulx, was found guilty yesterday. He received a life sentence without possibility of parole for 25 years.

Her husband Daniel Casgrain sat through the 27-day trial. Yesterday, he read from a prepared statement, which La Presse reprinted in this morning’s edition. It is a profoundly sad read, and those who can do so in French should take a minute.  ”One man, one single man, decided the life of my wife,” it begins. “During the night of May 15-16 2008, my life was laid to waste by the hand of one man. The woman of my life was taken from me in the worst possible way possible. Never in my nightmares could I have imagined to lose her in such a cruel way.”

Taking aim at Ignatieff

By Aaron Wherry - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM - 6 Comments

In the coded language of official Ottawa, they are known as SO31s. It’s a reference to Standing Order 31 of Parliament, which allows that 15 minutes be set aside before question period each day for MPs to stand in the House and make brief remarks about a subject of their choosing. For the most part, members use the time to salute constituents, celebrate charitable causes, mourn sad occasions or pontificate on matters of national or international importance.

When they still had Stéphane Dion to kick around, the Conservative government took great pleasure in mocking the former Liberal leader before he rose to ask another awkwardly worded question of the Prime Minister. And though they waited a few days before doing likewise with Dion’s successor, a steady succession of Conservative backbenchers has been sent up to denigrate Michael Ignatieff or his party since he took the leader’s chair. Indeed, despite an attempt recently by the Speaker to limit personal attacks during this time, government MPs have used more than 100 of these statements to needle the Liberal side in the 12 weeks since Parliament returned in January—a concerted campaign that reached a particular low when Ron Cannan rose on the afternoon of April 20 and attempted to segue from a preceding statement of condolence by Liberal Maurizio Bevilacqua about the deadly Italian earthquake.

Continue…

Newsmakers of the week

By Lianne George - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 9:30 AM - 2 Comments

Dame tracking

Elizabeth Taylor, 77, who was in the hospital last week for a routine visit, has “fallen in love” with Twitter according to her spokesman Dick Guttman. From her bed, using the moniker Dame Elizabeth, Taylor told her followers (22,500 and counting) that she was “counting the days” until the opening of Michael Jackson’s concert series in London, that she recently enjoyed “delicious tomatoes” grown in her garden, and that she watched the movie Twilight on DVD and “wants more!” On Friday, in a personal tweet to her good friend, former Sports Illustrated model Kathy Ireland, she thanked her for the beautiful flowers and the prayers, and requested that Ireland find a way to sneak her puppy past hospital security. “It’s not true that I love animals more than people,” she wrote earlier that day of her famous love of animals. “They are a very close second.”

Of swastikas and good parenting

A couple in Winnipeg who drew international attention after their young daughter turned up at school last year with white supremacist symbols, including Nazi swastikas, drawn on her body, began their legal battle for custody of their children this week. The couple, who can’t be named under provincial law, will argue that Manitoba Child and Family Services had no right to seize their daughter and son from their home. “I believe there is no legal basis for the children having been apprehended,” the boy’s father (and the girl’s stepfather) wrote in an affidavit. But the government agency is seeking guardianship of the siblings, alleging that the girl told authorities that her mother had taught her that “black people just need to die because this is a white world,” and that if she ever made any non-white friends, her mother would disown her. Social workers also allege that the couple abuse drugs and alcohol and are physically abusive toward the children. But the father insists he and his wife are model guardians and that the seizure of his kids over the swastika incident is a violation of his freedom of conscience, belief and association under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “In my opinion,” he wrote, “both [their mother] and I were excellent parents.”

Continue…

Bestsellers

By Brian Bethune - Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 9:00 AM - 0 Comments

Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of May 26th, 2009)

Fiction
1 THE CHILDREN’S BOOK by A.S. Byatt 1 (6)
2 TEA TIME FOR THE TRADITIONALLY BUILT by Alexander McCall Smith 2 (5)
3 THE SWEETNESS AT THE THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE by Alan Bradley 9 (15)
4 THE LITTLE STRANGER by Sarah Waters 5 (4)
5 BROOKLYN by Colm Tóibín 4 (2)
6 THE WINTER VAULT by Anne Michaels 6 (9)
7 NOCTURNES by Kazuo Ishiguro 10 (2)
8 PYGMY by Chuck Palahniuk 7 (2)
9 THE SELECTED WORKS OF T.S. SPIVET by Reif Larsen (1)
10 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson 8 (34)

Non-fiction
1 WHY YOUR WORLD IS ABOUT TO GET A WHOLE LOT SMALLER by Jeff Rubin (1)
2 TRUE PATRIOT LOVE by Michael Ignatieff 2 (6)
3 ALWAYS LOOKING UP by Michael J. Fox 4 (8)
4 SLOW DEATH BY RUBBER DUCK by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie (1)
5 OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell 1 (26)
6 THE CELLO SUITES by Eric Siblin 5 (11)
7 FILTHY LUCRE by Joseph Heath 6 (2)
8 THE ASCENT OF MONEY by Niall Ferguson 7 (3)
9 STEPHEN LEACOCK by Margaret MacMillan 3 (7)
10 THE LOST CITY OF Z by David Grann (1)

LAST WEEK (WEEKS ON LIST)