Politics & Current Affairs

★ Rewind and Search: Conversations with the Makers and Decision-Makers of CBC Television Drama

Mary Jane Miller’s Rewind and Search is too epic an accomplishment to categorize merely as a sequel to her Turn Up the Contrast (1987). The new book was begun in 1988, three years into the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Diversity at Work: The Business Case for Equity

By Trevor Wilson and Mary Ann Sayers

1995 was a tremendous year for corporate earnings. Now in 1996, company management can finally afford to shift focus and they’re ready to tackle intangibles like the effects of employee loyalty, morale, and perceptions of ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Heat Wave

By Michel Marc Bouchard, Bill Glassco, trans.

Michel Marc Bouchard is one of the most innovative, daring, and imaginative of Quebec playwrights, having written such complexly psychological – and complexly theatrical – works as Lilies and The Tale of Teeka. So you’ll ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Witch Hunt in the B.C. Woods

By A.B. Robinson

Retired B.C. government forest administrator A.B. (Tony) Robinson asserts tree huggers are wrong to conserve forests, forest bureaucrats are right to maximize harvest, and B.C.’s NDP government is dabbling in economic witchcraft in its efforts ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The League of Nathans

By Jason Sherman

Jason Sherman’s seriocomic The League of Nathans is an immensely entertaining play which, time and again, masterfully executes one of the great theatrical tricks: Sherman is an expert at allowing the prevailing comic tone of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance

By Paul Grescoe

To call romantic fiction pap is to miss the point business historian and journalist Paul Grescoe makes – that turning mush into millions is a great story on its own. From the birth of Harlequin ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

In Search of a New Left: Canadian Politics After the Neoconservative Assault

By James Laxer

This book is grotesquely mistitled. It is not – except for its last chapter – about the search for a new Left, or even about Canadian politics in the neoconservative era. Instead, In Search of ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

McLuhan’s Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media

By Stephen Dale

These days, exhuming the intellectual corpse of media theorist Marshall McLuhan has become a cottage industry in publishing. As the patron saint of Wired magazine and the self-described mentor of numerous media pundits, McLuhan has ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace

By Dale Spender

Having read her bestseller Man Made Language, I expected the Australian academic and veteran feminist to tear into cyber-hype like a pitbull with a reserved spot in the dogma pound.Retry.Spender wants us to experiment on ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Big, Bold and Beautiful: Living Large on a Small Planet

By Jackqueline Hope

Following on the heels of American Naomi Wolf’s critically acclaimed The Beauty Myth and the recently published Lip Service: The Truth about Women’s Darker Side in Sex, Love and Friendship by Canadian journalist Kate Fillion, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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