Reviews

One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis

Most Canadians assume that the police and the army exist to protect their civil rights. The police and military response to land-rights demonstrations at Oka and Ontario’s Ipperwash Provincial Park illustrate why aboriginal people in ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Lilac in Leather

By Sarah Murphy

Recently, American essayist Wendy Steiner characterized contemporary female fiction as being “rich in imagery and emotion, consumed by the desire to recover a lost or hidden past.” Sarah Murphy’s Lilac in Leather doesn’t stray far ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Who’s in the Goose Tonight: An Anecdotal History of Canadian Theatre

By Vernon Chapman

For one performance of a sketch for Spring Thaw, the annual revue that saved the bacon of the New Play Society in Toronto, actor Ted Follows, who had been absent from the show for a ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Watchdogs and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream

By Tim Falconer

In Watchdogs and Gadflies, Tim Falconer gladly reveals his personal bias: In a climate of increasing corporate control, dwindling public resources, and environmental devastation, there is no room for passive spectators. Falconer wants everyone to ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Prototype: How Canadian Innovation Is Shaping the Future

By William Illsey Atkinson

In Prototype, B.C. writer William Illsey Atkinson sets himself the task of discovering the “ideal” high-tech Canadian company: one that makes lots of money, gives its employees a fun and rewarding place to work, and ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Light at the Edge of the World

By Wade Davis

Wade Davis has never been a typical “science writer.” His books, including the international bestseller One River, have always been informed by Davis’s personal intensity and involvement (far exceeding that expected even of an anthropologist), ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Zamboni Rodeo: Chasing Hockey Dreams from Austin to Albuquerque

By Jason Cohen

I wish Zamboni Rodeo had been around when I was researching my second novel. If it had, I wouldn’t have had to travel on an overheated bus with the San Antonio Iguanas of the Central ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Mouthing the Words

By Camilla Gibb

Thelma Barley, the narrator of Toronto writer Camilla Gibb’s first novel, Mouthing the Words, survives childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her father and the emotional bludgeoning of her vain, capricious mother to become ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stranger Things Have Happened

By Carmelita McGrath

There should be a warning on the cover of Carmelita McGrath’s stunning short story collection: “Do Not Read This If You Are Even Slightly Depressed.”McGrath’s protagonists are mostly women stuck in dead-end or abusive relationships ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short