January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Carol Shields claims to have been “an avid theatre-goer in the sixties and seventies,” when she was “greatly attracted to the experimental theatre of the time.” Her own plays, collected here for the first time, ... Read More »
In the wake of a tragic event – a school shooting or a car accident involving a mobile phone, say – there is a terrific swell of curiosity among members of the media and the ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
For Normand Lester, a francophone journalist with Radio-Canada, the officially promoted narratives of Canadian history are biased in favour of English Canada and whitewash its many injustices. Lester wants to set the record straight, and ... Read More »
January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Very few people can go through their daily routine without coming into contact with the media, be it radio, television, film, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, or even outdoor billboards. Moreover, media play a key role ... Read More »
January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Midway through The Road to Hell, one can’t help but think that nothing unites Canada quite like the pervasive influence of biker organizations – unless it’s the nation’s widespread inability to do anything about them. ... Read More »
January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
In the post-9/11 climate of fear and paranoia, few voices have criticized the civil liberties abuses by agencies charged with safeguarding the security of Canadians. That may change with this remarkable exposé by reporter Andrew ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Placing the hot-button issue of terrorism into perspective can be a tricky proposition, especially given the multitude of ideological minefields behind the us-versus-them rhetoric that often defines the discussion. But Jonathan Barker has taken his ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Jane Doe was asleep in her downtown Toronto apartment when a serial rapist climbed in over her balcony and made her his fifth victim. Although the police knew he was in the area and that ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Among the many controversial policies of Ontario’s Conservative government, few drew as big a public backlash as plans to privatize Ontario Hydro. One of the leaders of a movement that eventually forced the government to ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In the late 1880s, a Dene medicine man prophesized a “burning vision” that will “come a long time in the future. It will come burning inside.” His people may have regarded him as a sapient ... Read More »
November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs