Reviews

Kill or Cure? How Canadians Can Remake Their Health Care System

By Dr. Carolyn Bennett and Rick Archbold

In Kill or Cure?, Dr. Carolyn Bennett issues a call to arms for Canadians to come out and fight for their health care system. A practising family physician until 1995, now federal MP for a ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers

By Rachel Manley

Rachel Manley’s Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers is perilously similar to Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, for which she won a Governor General’s Award. The new book presents a conundrum: without having read Drumblair, readers ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus

By Donald Harman Akenson

Queen’s University professor Donald Harman Akenson is known for his scholarship on Irish history and his probing questions about Christianity. In 1998, he produced the critically acclaimed Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies: A Memoir of Hungary

By Anna Porter

Contemporary memoirs – the unforgettable ones – are narrative poker games that break out when a limber imagination takes on family history. Angela’s Ashes and Running in the Family – to name but a slim ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Can We Be Good Without God? Behaviour, Belonging and the Need to Believe

By Robert Buckman

Robert Buckman is an MD and card-carrying humanist who wants us to know that we don’t have to believe in order to behave. Belief in an external god who has set out prescribed rules of ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Blood Relations: Animals, Humans, and Politics

By Charlotte Montgomery

Though increasing the number of vegetarians was not likely her goal, Charlotte Montgomery’s powerful report from the front lines of the Canadian animal rights movement could provoke many a reader to swear off a whole ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec

By Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe writes lively, information-packed travel articles, several of which have been folded into Sacré Blues, his lively, information-packed book on Quebec. (The B.C.-raised author settled there on returning to Canada from France four years ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Girl Who Lived with the Bears

By Barbara Diamond Goldin, Andrew Plewes, illus.

This transformation tale, one of the most popular stories among the Haida, Tlingit, and other Pacific Northwest coastal tribes, is retold here with careful attention to detail. Author Barbara Diamond Goldin first heard this legend ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: History

19th Century Girls and Women (Historic Communities Series)

By Bobbie Kalman

The latest title in Crabtree’s Historic Communities series will be welcomed by teachers looking for support materials for presenting 19th-century history. Unfortunately, its plodding, uninvolving text keeps this book from becoming anything more than a ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Free Reign

By Rosemary Aubert

The premise of Free Reign is promising. Ellis Portal, a former judge, is one of Toronto’s homeless, living in the bush lining the city’s Don River Valley. One day, he finds a man’s amputated hand, ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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