Science, Technology & Environment

Damaged Angels: A Mother Discovers the Invisible Cost of Alcohol in Pregnancy

It wasn’t until her troubled adopted daughter was in her teens that Bonnie Buxton even heard the term Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Damaged Angels outlines, with brutal honesty, the cost of FASD, the difficult ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights

By Anne Mullens

In her preface to Timely Death, B.C. journalist Anne Mullens, who covered the Sue Rodriguez story for The Vancouver Sun and later The Toronto Star, writes of how her attitude towards death changed during the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Life’s Losses: Living Through Grief, Bereavement and Sudden Change

By Betty Jane Wylie

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Presumption of Culture: Structure, Strategy, and Survival in the Canadian Cultural Landscape

By Tom Henighan

When Sheila Finestone, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, suggested a couple of years ago that “Canada has no national culture,” her intention may have been to affirm Canada’s wide diversity of cultures and lack of ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Boom, Bust and Echo

By David Foot and Daniel Stoffman

Does everything come down to demographics? Is the study of human populations the key to solving all our nation’s problems?According to demographer David Foot and journalist Daniel Stoffman, the answer is, more or less, yes. ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Canadian Family On-Line

By John Wallace Whistance-Smith

With the advent of the World Wide Web the Internet has irrevocably passed from the purview of technology fetishists into the den of John Q. Public. It’s no surprise then that the Net is now ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Whose Brave New World?: The Information Highway and the New Economy

By Heather Menzies

People are being replaced by computers in many Canadian industries, including banking, oil refining, pulp and paper, and telecommunications. And where they remain, they are becoming hand servants, or “human post-it notes” as Heather Menzies ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Shopping With a Conscience: The Informed Shopper’s Guide to Retailers, Suppliers, and Service Providers in Canada

By David Nitkin, et al.

We can no longer claim ignorance about the companies we do business with. EthicScan Canada has compiled profiles of 114 major corporations that among them dominate the retail industry in this country. Sadly, publishers and ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Shriek in the Forest Night

By R.D. Lawrence

Ronald Douglas Lawrence, a Canadian naturalist of great repute, has chosen to make this, his 27th book, a collection of anecdotes and stories about his adventures with wilderness over the past 40 years. The title ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd

By Pierre Berton

What I was going to do was make a humorous approach to Pierre Berton’s purportedly funny Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd. What I had in mind was a piece poking ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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