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Rogers v Rogers – Alexandra Posadzki
This is a story of one of the biggest telecom companies in Canada, Rogers Communications, and the family behind it. While the subtitle leads you to believe that we’re going to hear about the sordid drama between family members during a merger with Shaw Communications and a CEO ousting, that’s a very small part of…
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Autocracy Inc – Anne Applebaum
This is November 2025’s book club book. Applebaum walks readers through how autocratic states operate, and how they peddle their influence through the world. China subsidizes StarTimes for news so it’s a cheaper option than Western media thus Chinese ideals are spread. China, and other autocracies, don’t differentiate between government policy and business so they…
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Drinking the Ocean – Saad Omar Khan
Drinking the Ocean follows Murad and Sofi as their lives intertwine, where one loves the other romantically and it’s only returned in the type of love that a sibling would receive. We follow this story first from the future as Murad sees Sofi on the TTC and then we venture back into history to see…
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Corporate Control – Nora Loreto
Much like Dark PR I see in this government subsidizing industries that really aren’t good for the people that live in the country, the people that government is supposed to be serving. From choosing free trade over the protected economy in the late 80’s to selling off the Crown Corporations to business that now make…
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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution – Louise Perry
This is October’s book club book. Join the free email list to get all the content. Perry’s main argument is that while the sexual revolution liberated women from some of the taboo’s of sex outside of marriage, it also brought many issues for women participating in sex. She argues, convincingly to me, that the sexual…
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Artemis – Andy Weir
In this book we follow Jasmine (Jazz) on the Artemis colony on the Moon. She’s a smuggler and generally gets up to shenanigans involving smuggling and in this book some sabotage. While I loved The Martian and Hail Mary, this book wasn’t one I loved. I even read it a second time now, first read…
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Beneath Dark Waters – Eve Lazarus
While the Titanic sinking may be one of the most famous Maritime disasters, it’s not the biggest or the one that touches Canada the most. A few years after the Titanic had it’s ill-fated meeting with an iceberg The Empress of Ireland had a collision with another ship on the St Lawrence in Canada where…
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Never Play it Safe – Chase Jarvis
This was read for September 2025 book club. Join to get regular posts on books. While part of my is always inspired by these types of books they also seem to be extreme examples of survivorship bias. We only hear about all the people the author has met, and sometimes coached, that succeeded by following…
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My Friends – Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman does it again, serving readers a tragic but also uplifting tail that brought me to tears. This was by far the one I thought was going to end in all tragedy, but had a strong light at the end of the tunnel as community was formed in the midst and via the heart…
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Moral Ambition – Rutger Bregman
This is Rutger Bregman’s treatise to get you to do more with your life than simply get a job to earn lots of money and find a position of power. He says that you have a deep moral obligation to make a change in the world with your work and that far too many people…
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