Politics & Current Affairs

Electric Language

In Electric Language Eric McLuhan takes as a starting point his father’s premise that the monopoly print has held as the main mode of communication since the 15th century is fading and, in its place, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Moral Leadership: Facing Canada’s Leadership Crisis

By Robert C. Evans

Toronto outplacement counsellor Robert Evans has found the enemy – it is us, the Canadian people. He contends that the country has lost its moral compass, and few organizations escape his wrath.“We seem not to ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Cult of Impotence: Selling the Myth of Powerlessness in the Global Economy

By Linda McQuaig

Since she quit newspaper reporting in the 1980s, Linda McQuaig has transformed herself into a most unlikely industry, writing a string of books about Canadian macroeconomic theory that have become popular hits. Her formula, in ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Click: Becoming Feminists

By Lynn Crosbie, ed.

Decades ago, feminists outlawed the term “girl,” claiming that when men use it, they ditch females in a wasteland of permanent childhood and guarantee male superiority. A recent television newscast reported on “Girl Power,” the ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Woman of Influence: Evlyn Fenwick Farris

By Sylvie McClean

Biographer Sylvie McClean describes her subject’s papers as a small addition to the impressive archive of her husband, J. Wallace de Becque Farris, former attorney general of British Columbia and a member of the Senate. ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Half Man Half Beast: Making a Life in Canadian Theatre

By Maurice Podbrey

Books on Canadian theatre are scarce enough that any addition to our slim library is a welcome one. Maurice Podbrey’s as-told-to memoir of starting and running Montreal’s Centaur Theatre, however, outstays its welcome depressingly soon, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Lights, Camera, Action! Making Movies and TV from the Inside Out

By Lisa O’Brien, Stephen MacEachern, illus.

In spite of the complexity of film production, the information presented in Lights, Camera, Action! is laid out in a clear, organized fashion and is easy to understand. This is not surprising since author Lisa ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fireworks and Folly: How We Killed Minnie Sutherland

By John Nihmey

Minnie Sutherland was a Cree from Kashechewan, a reserve on the Ontario side of James Bay. She died in an Ottawa hospital on Jan. 11, 1989, at age 40, after being hit by a car ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Smart Women: Canadian Entrepreneurs Talk About Making Money, Leadership, Management, and Self-development

By Barbara Thrasher and Madelon Smid

Although women entrepreneurs are establishing businesses at record levels and are primarily responsible for the proliferation of small business today, they continue to be dogged by the disparity between men’s and women’s incomes. Why? According ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trivia Pursuit: How Showbiz Values Are Corrupting the News

By Knowlton Nash

“Headless body in topless bar.” According to Knowlton Nash, that lurid headline from the New York Post symbolizes the dismal future of journalism. Newspapers, television, and radio are abandoning whatever commitment they had to educating ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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