Politics & Current Affairs

The Partition Principle: Remapping Quebec After Separation

At a dinner party more years ago than I can recall, I remember denouncing a Westmount woman and her ilk for being responsible for the growing separatist movement in Quebec. Heatedly, I argued that the ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Riding the Tiger: How to Outsmart the Computer That Is After Your Job, How Not to Bankrupt Your Organization with Information Management and How Good Clients Get Exceptional Results

By Alistair Davidson,Harvey Gellman, Mary Chung

Alistair Davidson, Harvey Gellman, and Mary Chung are Toronto computer mavens; what they ask in Riding the Tiger is how a manager thrown into a data project can do the job well.Their answer is hard ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Sweat Equity: Entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada

By Allan Lynch

As veteran business writer Allan Lynch points out in his preface to Sweat Equity, Atlantic Canada is not generally perceived – either within the region or without – as a locus for economic success. Yet ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ken Thomson: Canada’s Enigmatic Billionaire

By Vic Parsons

Author Vic Parsons, a veteran journalist who spent six years with Thomson Newspapers, doesn’t hide his disdain for Canada’s richest capitalist, a reclusive press baron whose life bears little resemblance to that of the average ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds

By Michel Tremblay, John van Burek and Bill Glassco, trans.

Modern Quebec theatre was born in 1965, when Michel Tremblay stopped writing plays in French French (in works that he came to call “foreign subliterature”) and started, with Les belles soeurs, writing them in joual.In ... Read More »

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The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum: A Stage Play Based on the Novel by Sheldon Currie

By Wendy Lill

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Retreat

By Jason Sherman

The titles of two new plays – 1995 GG-winner Jason Sherman’s The Retreat and 1994 GG-winner Morris Panych’s Vigil – conjure up images of intimate, solemn religious rituals. Both plays are, however, nominally comedies, and ... Read More »

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★ Vigil

By Morris Panych

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Cut Your Losses!: A Smart Retailer’s Guide to Loss Prevention

By Keith O’Brien

Cut Your Losses! A Smart Retailer’s Guide to Loss is about prevention. According to author Keith O’Brien, the four main causes of retail loss are employees, customers, vendors, and errors. His book examines everything from ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

TVTV: The Debate

By Robert Anderson, Richard Gruneau, Paul Heyer, eds.

For anybody who watched TVTV: The Television Revolution, Moses Znaimer’s bombastic CBC documentary about the nature of the culture’s dominant medium, the real debating question is probably: why would anyone want to publish a book ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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