Laxer, James

Award-winning author James Laxer has written many books, including Stalking the Elephant: My Discovery of America (published by New Press in the US as Discovering America) and The Border: Canada, the U.S. and Dispatches from the Forty-ninth Parallel. James Laxer appears regularly on television discussions of issues of the day. He was the host and co-author of Reckoning, a prize-winning series of films on the global economy produced by the National Film Board of Canada. James Laxer is a professor of political science at York University in Toronto.;