Vices Then and Now
A new book looks at the colourful history of moral regulation in Canada July–August 2014
Vice exerts a perennial interest, —regardless of how and by whom it is defined. In Canada the Good: A Short History of Vice since 1500, an admirably condensed social history of Canadian vices over the past five centuries, York University historian Marcel Martel shows exactly how during this time the definition of vice in Canada has shifted from a discourse centred on sin to one…