Science, Technology & Environment

The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost World of Dinosaurs and Birds

Old dinosaurs never die, they just evolve into something else,” might make a good motto for many of today’s paleontologists. Going beyond the strict boundaries of the all-the-dinosaurs-were-killed-by-a-meteorite theory, cutting-edge paleontologists now believe that a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada’s Poor

By Pat Capponi

Canadians like to brag about how the United Nations consistently rates Canada as the best place in the world to live. It’s selective memory: the U.N. also routinely chastises Canada for its treatment of aboriginal ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Water

By Marq de Villiers

Water is necessary for all life. Wars have been fought over it and leaders assassinated, yet it is something that we usually take for granted.Marq de Villiers, former editor and publisher of Toronto Life, is ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Last Taboo: A Survival Guide to Mental Health Care in Canada

By Scott Simmie and Julia Nunes

When veteran journalist Scott Simmie suffered a nervous breakdown after a prolonged manic episode, he got a first-hand look at the Canadian mental health care system and the ongoing stigma of being labelled “crazy.” Friends ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Planet Earth: The Newest Weapon of War

By Rosalie Bertell

With the election of George W. Bush provoking renewed international concern about plans to launch a Star Wars military program, Rosalie Bertell has produced a timely call to action on the dangers the military poses ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Efficient Society: Why Canada Is as Close to Utopia as It Gets

By Joseph Heath

According to the old refrain of the Canadian right, Americans are simply wealthier and happier than we are; if Canadians could visualize the comparison, our welfare state would be a bloated white elephant next to ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Luck of the Draw: True Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers

By Chris Gudgeon and Barbara Stewart

“Ka-ching!” went the strings of Owen Edmunds’ heart. The Richmond, B.C. cad then phoned his fiancée – collect – to announce that he had won half a million dollars on Lotto 6/49, and that the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Passion Lost: Public Sex, Private Desire in the Twentieth Century

By Patricia Anderson

Passion Lost, the latest book by Vancouver literary consultant and historian Patricia Anderson – and a successor to her previous title When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians – attempts to trace passion’s progress over ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls

By Karen Dubinsky

After Oscar Wilde visited Niagara Falls in 1882, he declared the waterfall must be the second greatest disappointment in American married life. Like many good jokes, Wilde’s quip worked because he left the best part ... Read More »

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

Civil Society in Question

By Jamie Swift

According to Jamie Swift, defining the term “civil society” is like trying to pin jelly to the wall. This particular jelly is as much in vogue these days as terms like stakeholder, collateral damage, and ... Read More »

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

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