February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The 12 plays in this collection present Canada’s North as a place of unresolvable tensions. The landscape is certainly harsh, but no less brutal is the “complex, crushed geography” of those who venture into this ... Read More »
Chinese diaspora? Yes, indeed there is one, and it has ramifications for many countries, including Canada. With an introduction by Gary Hamilton, who teaches sociology at the University of Washington, this collection of nine academic ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The main protagonist in Brad Fraser’s new play Snake in Fridge is a house. Owned by a pornography ringleader, inhabited by six characters possessed by personal demons, and witness to the murder of a neophyte ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Newspaper photos of Chinese police arresting practitioners of tai-chi-like exercises called Falun Gong have appeared frequently in the past year, yet little is known in the West about this decade-old phenomenon. In a refreshing attempt ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
This will be the last time I consider a “women’s” anthology. This review – of a book of essays edited by women and written by women about things women apparently don’t talk about – will ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
What is happiness? The feeling that power increases – that resistance is being overcome.” David Olive cites that line from Friedrich Nietzsche as the epigraph of his new book. The quotation is a signal that ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Kids change you. Before my son was born two years ago, I was a reluctant consumer, at best. Now, I shop with an intensity that would make Mila Mulroney blush. I know why the economy ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
“Bricks to clicks” is a catchy phrase that describes the long and complex process that an established “real-world” retailer must undertake in order to establish an online retail presence. Ed McMahon, a Toronto-based management consultant, ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
When there are so many nooks and crannies within a company that a manager can secretly divert several top scientists onto a hush-hush laser research project, you know you’re dealing with a behemoth.And a behemoth ... Read More »
February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
John Ibbitson, a columnist with the Globe and Mail, is a brave writer. While he could have limited the scope of Loyal No More to the current impasse between Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill, Ibbitson ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs