Reviews

Season of Apples

In Season of Apples, Ann Copeland’s new collection of stories, the author proves herself masterful at evoking the rich content and drama in what would otherwise appear to be simple incidents and humdrum lives. In ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Democracy’s Oxygen: How Corporate Media Smother the Facts

By James Winter

On March 2, 1996, Conrad Black took an axe to two newspapers: the Regina Leader-Post and the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. In a single day, later called “Black Saturday,” 182 people were laid off – 25% of ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Place Names of Atlantic Canada

By William B. Hamilton

Following his fascinating Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names, history professor William Hamilton has turned his considerable toponymic research skills to his home region. Place Names of Atlantic Canada is an up-to-the-minute reference sure to ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Nelson Canadian Dictionary of the English Language

By Jan Harkness, David Friend, Julia Keefer, Dan Liebman, Fraser Sutherland, eds.

Pity the poor Canadian lexicographer trying to negotiate our historical schizophrenia: “draft” or “draught”? “recognize” or “recognise”? “centre” or “center”? “favor” or “favour”? Dictionary-makers can’t legislate; they can only reflect how we write and speak, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

SCTV: Behind the Scenes

By Dave Thomas with Robert Crane and Susan Carney

In his introduction, former SCTV cast member Dave Thomas explains that he was prompted to write this book after being contacted by another writer treating the same subject. Not wanting anything to do with it, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

1997 Canadian Internet Handbook

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

A short time ago, the Western press fell in love with something called the Internet. The Information Highway was about to arrive, and boy, was it ever going to be great.Four or so years later, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

1997 Canadian Internet Directory

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada

By Cecil Foster

Toronto writer Cecil Foster’s A Place Called Heaven falls generally into the category of books that look for answers to problems in the black community from within the community itself – a category that includes ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: History

I Bless You in My Heart: Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill

By Carl Ballstadt,Elizabeth Hopkins, and Michael A. Peterman, eds.

Catharine Parr Traill and her sister Susanna Moodie both wrote extensively of their adventures as settlers in 19th-century Upper Canada. The melodramatic tales of adversity in Roughing It in the Bush make Moodie now rather ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Centro Cooks: A Celebration of the Seasons

By Barbara Prevedello, Richard Swiecki, photog.

Originally published earlier this year in an edition of one as a 50th birthday gift for Toronto restaurateur Franco Prevedello by his wife Barbara, Centro Cooks is a beautiful celebration of uptown Toronto’s Centro and ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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