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Turning Points: The Detroit Riots of 1967, a Canadian Perspective

The city of Windsor, Ontario, is often a forgotten footnote in Canadian geography and history, dwarfed by its sister city across the border, Detroit. Herb Colling has rectified that neglected status with a number of ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

Stone Country: An Unauthorized History of Canada

By George Bowering

What teachers didn’t tell you in Canadian history class – or maybe did tell you but put you to sleep in the process – makes up the bulk of irreverent British Columbia writer George Bowering’s ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

Because We Are Canadians

By Sgt. Charles D. Kipp

In his foreword to Because We Are Canadians, Pierre Berton mentions the relative scarcity of published memoirs by soldiers who participated in the Second World War. Whereas the literature of the Great War is dominated ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle

By Monique Proulx, Fred A. Reed and David Homel, trans.

Best-selling Quebec novelist Monique Proulx doesn’t have her own web site, but she leaps daringly into cyberspace in her latest novel. While designing web sites for a rag-tag mob of artists, writers, clowns, and other ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wisdom of Water

By Karen Hood-Caddy

The setting in The Wisdom of Water isn’t Walkerton, Ontario, site of one of the country’s worst environmental disasters, but it’s eerily similar: tainted water from an outdated treatment plant, malfunctioning equipment, and an irresponsible ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wild Cat

By Jacques Poulin, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Jacques Poulin is one of Quebec’s best and most-loved writers, winner of the Governer General’s Award for Les Grandes marées (Spring Tides) and the Prix France-Amerique for Le Vieux chagrin (Mr. Blue). Thoughtful and wryly ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Grasslands

By Michael Hetherton

A woman named Sunny in one of Michael Hetherton’s stories calls a man “iceberg head,” but it’s not an insult. She means – or hopes – there’s more beneath the surface than meets the eye. ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Stars as Seen from This Particular Angle of Night

By Sandra Kasturi, ed.

Any organizing principle so loosely defined as to comfortably include Milton’s Paradise Lost and a poem about robots clearly derivative of Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man is likely of little to no use for a ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Understanding Canadian Defence

By Desmond Morton

On Feb. 12, only weeks before the U.S. war in Iraq, Defense Minister John McCallum announced the deployment to Afghanistan, later this year, of over 1,000 Canadian soldiers for peacekeeping duty. Hours later, Major General ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

Hey Nostradamus!

By Douglas Coupland

Hey Nostradamus! is one of Douglas Coupland’s minor-key efforts. It doesn’t have the operatic heft of All Families Are Psychotic or the poppin’ fresh teen spirit of such earlier works as Microserfs. If anything, Coupland ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Turning Points: The Detroit Riots of 1967, a Canadian Perspective

Stone Country: An Unauthorized History of Canada

Because We Are Canadians

The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle

The Wisdom of Water

Wild Cat

Grasslands

The Stars as Seen from This Particular Angle of Night

Understanding Canadian Defence

Hey Nostradamus!

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