February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The fastest growing segment of the self-employed market in Canada today is composed of women. Female entrepreneurs are at the leading edge of our economy’s knowledge workers and are launching their own businesses in record ... Read More »
Abundantly Simple: Everywoman’s Gratitude Journal, is a long-overdue satire of the “be thankful for the little things” type of inspirational book. Authors Helen Kafka and Laura Hellen (otherwise known as “The Helens”) are, respectively, a ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Four black men discuss their various problems with women in a luxury warehouse apartment, revealing in the process strains on their romantic and work relationships. Chris, a corporate lawyer, is in low spirits because he ... Read More »
February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The title of this memoir might lead the reader to expect a dishy, bitchy, spaghetti-strapped session with a Helen Fielding or a Melissa Bank, the top-girls in the urban dating adventures genre. But the reader ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Michael Ignatieff’s The Rights Revolution, the latest in CBC’s Massey Lectures series, probes the international growth of rights consciousness, with particular reference to Canada. The book was written during a sojourn in Banff and appears, ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Over the past five years, poll after poll has placed solving homelessness near the top of Canadians’ priorities. As if to reflect that concern, a growing number of books on poverty from high-profile publishers has ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Beatrice Chancy defies categorization. On the surface, it’s an adaptation of a well-known murder story from 16th-century Rome. In 1598, a young woman named Beatrice Cenci killed her father after he raped her. Subsequently, her ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Reaching back across 23 years into a windowless concrete cell, John Griffiths’ Resurrection recreates the kidnapping, sexual abuse, starvation, and six-month confinement of 12-year-old Abby Drover in Port Moody, B.C.While the police and Drover’s family ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
When you’ve spent your life in the middle of a war, it must be easy to think the rest of the world is in it too. This certainly seems true for the narcotics agents and ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
As a subscriber to an e-mail listserv for journalists, I receive numerous postings of interest to people in the business of disseminating information. Topics such as the buying and selling of newspaper chains, and the ... Read More »
February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs