Science, Technology & Environment

Racism, Sexism, and the University: The Political Science Affair at the University of British Columbia

Canadian universities are being torn apart by battles over racism and sexism, by what has been collectively called political correctness. Old white male heterosexual professors, the supporters of the great books (all by older white ... Read More »

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

Whose Bright Idea Was It? True Stories of Invention

By Larry Verstraete

Whose Bright Idea Was It? is a contribution to the genre of books that present us with lists of interesting, unusual, and humorous facts. It’s aimed at kids as well as “children of all ages.” ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ At the Border Called Hope: Where Refugees Are Neighbours

By Mary Jo Leddy

For more than five years, prominent social activist Mary Jo Leddy has lived and worked at Romero House, a Toronto refugee shelter. The first part of At the Border Called Hope, a remarkable and important ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Dispatches from the Poverty Line

By Pat Capponi

A war is being fought across Canada right now, but it’s one we seldom see dramatized in vivid images on the late-night television news. The war, of course, is the poverty war, and depending on your ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Government Online in Canada

By Pierre Bourque, forewords by Jean Chrétien and Frank McKenna, afterword by Mike Duffy

Pierre Bourque, an Ottawa journalist and member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, promises an “official and unofficial” look at web sites that will offer us access to our history, legal system, information on First Nations, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Wordperfect 7 for Windows 95 and Windows NT Essentials

By Laura Acklen

Once upon a time there was a software package that was so powerful and so ubiquitous, it was almost impossible to compete with it. It was called WordPerfect, and by the time version 5.1 was ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment