Politics & Current Affairs

Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow: Guarding Your Assets in the Coming Bear Market

Andrew Sarlos, financier, friend of tycoons, and benefactor of his native Hungary, died in March this year, his final testament a book of gloomy prophecy. In it, he forecasts that the roaring stock markets of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Masters of Change: Profiles of Canadian Businesses Thriving in Turbulent Times

By Daniel Stoffman,ed.

This book might more aptly be called “Risk-takers” or, less grandly, “How Business Copes in the 1990s,” for, while it’s certain that each of the 15 companies and executives profiled are depending on ingenuity to ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence

By Patricia Pearson

B-film purists will be pleased to note that a literary equivalent of Chained Heat (the women- in-prison series) is being featured in bookstores everywhere. The refrain of these filmic mayhem queens – so young, so ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Sex, Power, and the Violent Schoolgirl

By Sybille Artz

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

By Drew Hayden Taylor

In one sense, Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is about the psychological consequences of the “scoop up,” or the taking of native children for adoption in white society. But behind the generalized clash ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Newsroom

By Ken Finkleman

The Newsroom, for those who spent the last TV season reading books or in solitary confinement, was a CBC series almost revolutionary in execution. Besides being both cynical and urbane, historically a no-no at the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

No More Teachers, No More Books: The Commercialization of Canada’s Schools

By Heather-jane Robertson

While the Council of Canadians’ Maude Barlow has been off attacking the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, her Class Warfare co-author Heather-jane Robertson has attempted to defend us from the same threat on the home front. ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Conduct Unbecoming: The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy

By Howard Margolian

Howard Margolian is well placed to reconstruct the sordid murders of Canadian POWs in the days immediately following D-Day – he has been working in the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Friend of the Family: The True Story of David Snow, the Cottage Killer

By Alison Shaw

David Snow grew up in Orangeville, Ontario, a rural area north of Toronto, and in the early 1990s – before the suspicions, charges, and convictions – he dealt antiques. Alison Shaw, who moved to Orangeville ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Promises, Promises: Breaking Faith in Canadian Politics

By Anthony Hyde

Ottawa writer Anthony Hyde is best known for The Red Fox, the first of his mystery novels. He switches gears with this polemic on what politicians say, why we want them to say it, and ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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