Paul Martin: Ceo for Canada?

Canadians pondering the idea of Paul Martin as prime minister would do well to read Murray Dobbin’s incisive analysis of the man who, through his post as finance minister, has essentially been de facto prime ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Your Last Day on Earth

By Carla Hartsfield

Toronto poet Carla Hartsfield is a true Renaissance woman. Her biography states that she is, by turns, a poet, painter, songwriter, and classical/pop musician. Sometimes, as she demonstrates in her third collection of poetry, Your ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

The Book of War Letters: 100 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence

By Audrey and Paul Grescoe

The Book of War Letters is the ambitious second entry in Paul and Audrey Grescoe’s planned trilogy of collected Canadian letters. Spanning this country’s entry into the Boer war in 1899 to the death of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Velocity of Honey: And More Science of Everyday Life

By Jay Ingram

As the co-host of the award-winning @discovery.ca television show, Jay Ingram’s daily updates on the world of science and nature are a daily mainstay for TV science junkies. On radio, Ingram was the host of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

By Stephen Bown

The great scourge of long-distance ocean voyages in the age of sail was scurvy. The vitamin-C-deficiency disease killed two-thirds of Vasco da Gama’s crew in the 15th century. When Ferdinand Magellan made his historic circumnavigation ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change

By Irshad Manji

In The Trouble with Islam, broadcaster and commentator Irshad Manji calls for a revival of ijtihad, the Koran’s tradition of independent thinking. Manji, a Muslim of Indian origin who immigrated to Canada from Uganda in ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings

By Guy Maddin

Film director Guy Maddin is a cunningly sweet megalomaniac whose self-loathing and proclaimed laziness are matched only by his romantically overblown perception of himself. He is just the sort of guy I fall for every ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Sink: Money Laundering, Organized Crime and Canada’s Caribbean

By Jeffrey Robinson

Jeffrey Robinson’s The Sink is a follow-up to his 1996 bestseller The Laundrymen, which looked at the bankers, accountants, and other seemingly upstanding functionaries who aid and abet a multi-trillion-dollar dirty economy that ranks second ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind

By Joel Yanofsky

Sure, most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but fans of serious literature have honed quiet and desperate into a science. There’s no better reminder of this than the literary-stalker bio, that slightly creepy sub-genre ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade

By Victor Malarek

Reading Victor Malarek’s The Natashas is a little like watching an investigative report by Geraldo Rivera: The facts are all there, but sometimes it’s hard to hear them through all the moral indignation. That’s because ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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