Leonardo Padura is a Cuban novelist, known first and foremost as one of the most exciting crime novelists of our time. In The Man Who Loved Dogs, Padura presents us with an epic, Tolstoyan novel that mostly succeeds in the ambitious goals he has set for the work. This year marks the 100th anniversary of […]
About Rob Normey
Rob Normey is a lawyer who has practised in Edmonton for many years and is a long-standing member of several human rights organizations.
Mr. Green from The Company Brings Bloodshed to the Republic
July 5, 2017 By Rob Normey
George Orwell famously sought to make writing on politics into an art. It’s important to remember that he wasn’t the only one. So too did a radically different kind of writer, the cocksure American Gore Vidal. I bring up Orwell because I continue to ponder the notion that his dystopian novel 1984 time and again […]
The Rule of Law: Two Notable Supreme Court Decisions to Celebrate
May 5, 2017 By Rob Normey
The concept of the rule of law and the need to strictly comply with it is often presented with a flourish in legal and political debates. Canadians know that the rule of law is manifestly a good thing. We might, though, have some difficulty pinning it down. Surely, the growing recognition that the rule of […]
1984 and None Turn Back: Two Timely Novels
March 2, 2017 By Rob Normey
George Orwell’s dystopian classic, 1984, published less than a year before the English novelist and journalist’s untimely death in 1950, has had extraordinary staying power. Indeed, twice in recent times it has raced up the bestsellers lists, to the Number 1 position at Amazon in 2013 after the “Snowden revelations” about the massive surveillance operations […]
A Long Way From Plato
January 4, 2017 By Rob Normey
Canada is in the process of following the lead of other nations like Britain and Germany which have committed to pardoning and /or apologizing to large numbers of men who were criminally convicted in past decades for engaging in homosexual acts. The German government has determined that it will pardon 50,000 men and offer some […]
