The Border: Canada, the U.s. and Adventures Along the 49th Parallel

Things have been a little defensive along both sides of “the world’s longest undefended border” of late. According to Toronto political scientist and journalist James Laxer, that’s hardly a novel situation, and it’s unlikely to ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Prairie People: A Celebration of My Homeland

By Robert Collins

Veteran journalist Robert Collins has compiled a kind of field guide to the prairie provinces that is both homage and mythology. The book consists of short pieces that are collected in chapters with such titles ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari

By Christopher Ondaatje

Ernest Hemingway made two game-hunting safaris in Africa, both through Kenya, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and Uganda. The first was in 1933, the second 1953. For Hemingway in Africa, Christopher Ondaatje made a single photographic safari, ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Tommy: The Life and Times of Tommy Douglas

By Walter Stewart

Tommy Douglas was the one-time leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) party – the precursor of today’s NDP. He has also had his fair share of coverage in the press and in a few ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike

By Jennifer Duncan

Jennifer Duncan is the sort of person you’d like to meet around a campfire or at a cozy pub on a snowy night – a true woman of the Yukon, a woman who can tell ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground

By J. Edward Chamberlin

Ted Chamberlin teaches comparative literature at the University of Toronto and has worked on native land claims in the United States, Canada, Africa, and Australia. He is also a former poetry editor for Saturday Night ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

Catch & Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life

By Mark Kingwell

Those familiar with University of Toronto philosopher, critic, and media-wunderkind Mark Kingwell’s work may find the subject of his latest book, trout fishing, somewhat unlikely. Or not. Catch & Release is ostensibly a memoir dealing ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

All Hell Can’t Stop Us: The On-to-ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

By Bill Waiser

Historian Bill Waiser has done a remarkable job of resurrecting a landmark, but ill-remembered, chapter in Canadian history with his excellent depiction of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa protest trek. The trek to Ottawa was a country-wide ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister

By Maggie de Vries

Robert Pickton has been accused of crimes that, if he’s convicted, would make him the worst serial killer in Canadian history. But few Canadians could likely name even one of the women he is charged ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Succession

By Art Norris

Succession is another tale of the strains and glories of homecoming, told here through a sequence of linked stories connected to Al, a journeyman musician who, after years of playing bass in Vancouver bar bands, ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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