Reviews

Guilty of Everything

Art Bergmann and the band DOA are more familiar to Canadian rock fans now, but 20 years ago their contemporary John Armstrong was just as central to Vancouver’s punk scene. Under the alias Buck Cherry ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Horizontal Everest: Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island

By Jerry Kobalenko

The Horizontal Everest is the culmination of journalist/photographer Jerry Kobalenko’s obsession with Ellesmere Island’s dramatic environment and complicated history. A 16,651-square-mile island in the Canadian Arctic, it is one of the harshest places on earth, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver’s Newspaper Monopoly

By Marc Edge

In 1957, to prevent a fight to the death between the Southam-owned Vancouver Province and the privately owned Vancouver Sun, Southam proposed an unusual corporate partnership called Pacific Press. The two operations would share production ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

On Equilibrium

By John Ralston Saul

With On Equilibrium, John Ralston Saul convincingly stakes his claim for a place in the great philosophical continuum by contributing his own perspective to the key questions: What is a good life? What constitutes a ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Can’t Buy Me Love: How Martha Billes Made Canadian Tire Hers

By Rod McQueen

After Chrysler boss Lee Iacocca published his autobiography in 1984, it seemed every CEO had a story to tell. While most of these aggrandizing treatments offered readers little more than a recipe for success or ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Bombardier Story: Planes, Trains, and Snowmobiles

By Larry MacDonald

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

How to Achieve Joyful & Confident Parenting

By Penny Shore

This book, by Toronto adult educator Penny Shore, is one of a series of six parenting titles to be launched over the first three months of 2002.The books reflect the philosophies of internationally known child ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Cheez 100

By Fiona Smyth

Anyone who has lived in downtown Toronto in the past 10 years has probably been exposed to the art of Fiona Smyth. A respected and sometimes controversial Toronto artist, Smyth has been referred to as ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ The Shape of a Girl/jewel

By Joan MacLeod

The Shape of a Girl and Jewel are both one-act, one-character plays that hold a microscope to stories from the Canadian news. A teenage girl beaten to death by her peers and the story of ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Moving to the Clear

By Jason Dewinetz

Imagists like Ezra Pound used to throw around the phrase “ut pictura poesis,” which means “as is painting so is poetry.” The saying suggested that a poem draws out the same sensations as a painting, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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