February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
It’s been over two years since the pepper-spraying of University of British Columbia students by the RCMP at a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation captured national attention. In an age of limited historical memory, ... Read More »
Fortunately, Douglas Roche seems to have missed the unspoken rule that an appointment to the Canadian Senate usually means well-compensated obscurity, little work, and the occasional fine if you never show up.Rather than fading into ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The title of John Stackhouse’s book on overseas development is an awkward one. His work is awkward, too: an uneasy mix of travel memoir, critique of global economic policies, and benevolent Western look at the ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Saskatchewan writer Sharon Butala, best known for her critically acclaimed work of creative non-fiction, The Perfection of the Morning, returns to fiction with her latest book. The Garden of Eden furthers her exploration of prairie ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The title of this book defines the argument: computer-based education is deleterious to the learning process, stifling creative thinking and cannibalizing scarce resources while separating the child from the teacher and limiting sensory/emotional learning processes. ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
How much more remains to be said about Bre-X? Like the Titanic, it’s all over now – except perhaps the lawsuits. In the rush to publish first, early books about Bre-X, the greatest mining scam ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Scholars will scoff, but I think one of the best pieces of ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
A couple of years ago, Greig Dymond and Geoff Pevere made a big, cross-Canada splash with a book called Mondo Canuck. This “Canadian pop-culture odyssey” was a delightfully snotty exercise in sacred-cow tipping: Rush got ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Teachers looking for language arts ideas that can be integrated into a multicultural theme need look no further. Authors Barbara DuMoulin and Sylvia Sikundar have collaborated on a teacher resource book that not only gives ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Virtually none of novelist-poet Marie-Claire Blais’s plays have been read or performed in English. From this book it is easy to see why. Wintersleep is a collection of five chamber plays (written in the late ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs