Killing Things

John Degen’s 2000 poetry debut, The Animal Life of Budapest, was a slim, strong evocation of a very particular city and its discontents. Killing Things pursues his fascination with place, stopping in London, New York, ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Canada Gold: Men & Women Hockey Champions

When the Canadian men’s hockey team beat the Americans in Salt Lake City, it ended a 50-year drought of Olympic hockey gold. This was big news in a country that prides itself as a hockey ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Dark Paths, Cold Trails: A Mountie’s Quest to Link Serial Killers to Their Victims

By Doug Clark

A book that devotes several chapters to the likes of Clifford Olson and Paul Bernardo is bound to compel attention. And the sections of Dark Paths, Cold Trails where author Doug Clark sets out to ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

2030: Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime

By Robert Hunter

Author and Greenpeace co-founder Robert Hunter is at his angry best in 2030 when drawing out the scientifically proven (yes, proven) causes of climate change and the disastrous consequences we may already be facing. Think ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

By Warren Cariou

In this good-natured, easygoing memoir, thirtysomething writer Warren Cariou looks back on his rural boyhood in northern Saskatchewan and attempts to capture the ineffable magic of a childhood home. Cariou’s account is leavened by charming ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Requiem for a Lightweight: Stockwell Day and Image Politics

By Trevor W. Harrison

A well-researched study of former Canadian Alliance Party leader Stockwell Day’s meteoric rise to the national spotlight, and subsequent fall to political irrelevance, Requiem for a Lightweight serves as a timely epitaph to Day’s political ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy

By James Raffan

The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and wilderness lover, convincingly ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Con Game: The Truth About Canada’s Prisons

By Michael Harris

Most people’s vision of life inside a prison comes from popular TV shows like Oz or from such films as Robert Redford’s The Last Castle. But while these works of fiction capture some of the ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

When Things Get Back to Normal

By M.T. Dohaney

M.T. Dohaney was calmly watching television when her husband went out to play hockey with friends. The next time she saw him, she was a widow. His sudden on-ice heart attack left Dohaney reeling, both ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Princess and the Whiskheads: A Fable

By Russell Smith

Set in the mythical kingdom of Liralove, The Princess and the Whiskheads follows the discovery by princess Juliana of strife between a band of bohemian malcontents, called Whiskheads, and the common people. The Whiskheads, who ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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