February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In this unauthorized corporate history, financial journalist Rod McQueen describes the rise and fall of the Eaton’s department store empire and what really happened to the family behind the throne. The founder of Eaton’s, Timothy ... Read More »
In this third instalment on the movers and shakers of Canada, social analyst, historian, and gossipmonger Peter C. Newman lays out the case for the decline and fall of the old order and the ascension ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In Supreme at Last, self-proclaimed “court-watcher” Peter McCormick scales a mountain of information to provide readers with a history of the Supreme Court of Canada, from its humble beginnings in 1949 to the powerful and ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Elizabeth Bathory, a cult favourite in the world of vampire films, was a 17th-century Hungarian countess, infamous for her obsession with virgin blood. In Bathory, Toronto playwright Moynan King reimagines the last years of Bathory’s ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
David French is one of Canada’s most acclaimed playwrights and an accomplished explorer of the power of memory. Since 1972, generations of his fictional Mercer family, transplanted from Coley’s Point in Newfoundland to Toronto, have ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Three years ago, a recently retired Canadian army sergeant named James Davis wrote an interesting and timely exposé of life in the lower ranks of the Canadian armed forces. The Sharp End: A Canadian Soldier’s ... Read More »
February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
At a recent event in Toronto, author Russell Banks spoke about the deep connection between victims and offenders, particularly in his own fiction. He quoted James Baldwin’s claim that the story of race in America ... Read More »
February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Sandra Dean is an extraordinary person. Appointed principal in 1991 of South Simcoe Public School in Oshawa, Ontario, a troubled, inner-city school plagued by vandalism, absenteeism, and underachievement, she set out to improve conditions any ... Read More »
February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
This compendium of brief essays on the current concerns of corporate managers appears to have several goals. Written by faculty members and successful graduates of the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business ... Read More »
February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Joyce Milgaard fought for 28 years to secure the release of her son, David, from prison. During those years she held on to her unconditional love for (and belief in) her child. A Mother’s Story, ... Read More »
February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs