Politics & Current Affairs

Death by Television

Television critic for the Halifax Daily News, Ian Johnston styles himself “a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers and couch potatoes.” But given the contents of Johnston’s book, this fraternity isn’t worth its couches. ... Read More »

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

Yesterday’s News: Why Canada’s Newspapers Are Failing Us

By John Miller

John Miller is fed up and he’s not going to take it any more. The professor of newspaper journalism at Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnic University has written an exceptionally researched, lively lament of the current daily ... Read More »

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

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

By Wendy Shalit

Where I live – grassland southwest of quasi-urban Victoria – 4H-ers put it this way: “Owning a horse costs a lot of money, but so does teenage pregnancy.” Tight, logical, no bullshit. In livestock resides ... Read More »

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

A History of Celibacy: Experiments Through the Ages

By Elizabeth Abbott

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

A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia

By Christine Overall

Queen’s University philosophy professor Christine Overall lives her feminism inside the classroom and out.“Feminism,” she writes, “is the heart of who I am, not only as an academic, but as a citizen and an individual.” ... Read More »

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

Random Excess: The Wild Ride of Michael Cowpland and Corel

By Ross Laver

In the rapidly changing world of computers, no Canadian company has made a bigger splash than Ottawa’s Corel Corporation. Led by Mitel founder Michael Cowpland, the company surged into the headlines as business reversals caused ... Read More »

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

East and West

By Chris Patten

Newspapers in China called Chris Patten a criminal, a serpent, and a whore. The country’s politicians and diplomats alternately snubbed him, scolded him, and threatened him. He was second-guessed and undercut by traditionalists in Britain’s ... Read More »

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

Last Stop, Paris: The Assassination of Mario Bachand and the Death of the FLQ

By Michael McLoughlin

The murder of a marginal, emotionally unstable, onetime member of the revolutionary separatist group the Front de Liberation du Québec (FLQ) in a Paris apartment in 1971 was the linchpin of a Canadian security operation ... Read More »

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

The Next Century: Why Canada Wins

By Nuala Beck

A decade ago, Toronto business economist Nuala Beck freshened economic thinking with the phrase “new economy,” the idea that businesses built on human capital would thrive more than those in the old economy of bricks ... Read More »

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

The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey’s Bay Hustle

By Jacquie McNish

It started out as another game of chicken between penny stock traders and greedy investors. It turned into a $4.3- billion deal designed to protect the future of the world’s largest nickel company. In The ... Read More »

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

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