Politics & Current Affairs

Power: Journeys Across an Energy Nation

As hopes for environmental improvements take a distant back seat to the “war on terrorism,” Gordon Laird’s timely new look at Canadian energy exploration and exploitation provides a strong rallying call for the planet’s fragile ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver’s Newspaper Monopoly

By Marc Edge

In 1957, to prevent a fight to the death between the Southam-owned Vancouver Province and the privately owned Vancouver Sun, Southam proposed an unusual corporate partnership called Pacific Press. The two operations would share production ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Can’t Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers

By Rod McQueen

After Chrysler boss Lee Iacocca published his autobiography in 1984, it seemed every CEO had a story to tell. While most of these aggrandizing treatments offered readers little more than a recipe for success or ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Bombardier Story: Planes, Trains, and Snowmobiles

By Larry MacDonald

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Shape of a Girl/jewel

By Joan MacLeod

The Shape of a Girl and Jewel are both one-act, one-character plays that hold a microscope to stories from the Canadian news. A teenage girl beaten to death by her peers and the story of ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Well of Lies: The Walkerton Water Tragedy

By Colin N. Perkel

In May 2000 in the community of Walkerton, Ontario, seven people died and over 2,000 others became ill from the vicious and often permanent effects of E. Coli poisoning. The source of the contamination was ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Mediathink

By James Winter

Readers concerned about the lack of analysis and independent investigative journalism in the mass media will welcome the third of James Winter’s critiques of the fifth estate. Winter is one angry academic, and his polemical ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture

By Bruce Grenville, ed.

The Uncanny is an ambitious compilation of essays relating to one of the past century’s most persistent images: the cyborg. Written by various cultural theorists, curators, and media critics, and complemented by neat images of ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Gardens of Shame: The Tragedy of Martin Kruze and the Sexual Abuse at Maple Leaf Gardens

By Cathy Vine and Paul Challen

When Martin Arnold Kruze ended his life at age 35 by jumping from the Bloor Street Viaduct on Oct. 30, 1997, he had been used and betrayed not only by pedophiles employed at Maple Leaf ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Free as in Speech and Beer: The Internet, Gift Economies and the Intellectual Property Crisis

By Darren Wershler-Henry

In the aftermath of the dot-com bust comes Darren Wershler-Henry, an irreverent voice dancing on the dead bones of e-business hype and devalued high-tech stocks. Free as in Speech and Beer is a wonderful primer ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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