The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!

By Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost

The intriguing question “What happened after the fugitive slaves reached Canada?” is ably answered by three writers who are specialists in Underground Railroad history. Their research, which was originally undertaken for an exhibit at the ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

Heroines

By Lincoln Clarkes

Lincoln Clarkes is a Canadian fashion photographer who has made his mark both at home and in Paris and London. In 1996 he began a series of photographs whose subjects could not be less glamorous ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

By Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, eds.

The first Dropped Threads anthology, the brainchild of Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, was a Canadian publishing phenomenon. Book clubs across the country seized on the collection of true stories about what women aren’t told ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Pouring Small Fire

By Susan Manchester

With concrete imagery painted over punchy verse, Pouring Small Fire resembles a collection of nature photographs capturing memorable scenes. Poet and English teacher Susan Manchester writes how “the mist still paused” and “rude oaks laugh ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Chronicle of a War Foretold: How Mideast Peace Became America’s Fight

By Norman Spector

This book is a compilation of published articles spanning almost a decade, from the early 1990s to the post-Sept. 11 world. The articles, by Norman Spector, ex-chief of staff to the prime minister and former ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: History

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By Gabor Maté

When The Body Says No explores the intimate connection between mind, body, and spirit through life stories and intimate interviews with dozens of people who have lived, died, and sometimes overcome chronic illnesses. Vancouver physician ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck

By Andrea Curtis

Living at the beginning of the 20th century in what was then considered to be Ontario’s up-and-coming community of Wiarton, James Crawford was a prominent community figure and captain of a local steamship, the J.H. ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Beyond the Crazy House: Changing the Future of Madness

By Pat Capponi

A key area has fallen through the cracks in the follow-up discussions to the Romanow Commission on Canada’s health care system: mental health. Thankfully, activist Pat Capponi has been paying close attention to the fate ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Designerguys: Finding Your Personal Style

By Chris Hyndman and Steven Sabados

Snobs would say that any artefact that features the phrase “personal style” probably hasn’t got any, but people who look at subtitles – or who actually read – are probably not the point here. With ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Requiem for a Giant: A.v. Roe and the Avro Arrow

By Palmiro Campagna

Numerous books have been written about the rise of A.V. Roe Canada and its development of the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor plane, raising the question: can another book about the subject add anything significant to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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