November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
John Mighton is the founder of JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies), an expanding educational charity that has grown to provide free math tutoring to 12 inner-city Toronto schools. The Myth of Ability is the story ... Read More »
Jennifer Duncan is the sort of person you’d like to meet around a campfire or at a cozy pub on a snowy night – a true woman of the Yukon, a woman who can tell ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Things have been a little defensive along both sides of “the world’s longest undefended border” of late. According to Toronto political scientist and journalist James Laxer, that’s hardly a novel situation, and it’s unlikely to ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The Dark Side should be a more interesting book than it is. The subject matter is inherently engaging: failed governments and failed marriages, backroom betrayals and public humiliation – all the worst things about living ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Old Scores is the third episode of the contemporary Toronto-based police procedural series featuring Detective Barry Gilbert. When the body of sleazy drug-addicted music agent and fixer Glen Boyd is found by a collection agent ... Read More »
November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In strictly commercial terms, the Internet has been a boon for some and a bust for many, many more. For every Yahoo! there are probably scores of outdated, unvisited, and expensive corporate web sites occupying ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
On the one side, various hells on earth: Rwanda, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Mozambique, The Ivory Coast, Somalia, Chechnya, Colombia. On the other side, the established democracies: health, wealth, individual rights, social order, even ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Toronto freelance writer and broadcaster Marion Botsford Fraser spent three years criss-crossing the country exploring the often misrepresented lives of today’s single women. The result is Solitaire, a book that offers some of the most ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Each passing month brings a more urgent need for the world to puzzle out the future of its beleaguered multilateral institutions. So it’s tempting to pick up a book by Lloyd Axworthy, Canada’s foreign affairs ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Chatelaine’s herstoryTo celebrate Chatelaine’s 70th anniversary, Sylvia Fraser has compiled excerpts from past issues of the magazine as a time capsule of how Canadian women have and haven’t changed. A Woman’s Place: Seventy Years in ... Read More »
October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs