This Other Eden: Canadian Folk Art Outdoors

Outdoor folk art often gets a bad rap: Think overly adorned mailboxes, pink flamingos, and smiling gnomes. Curator, writer, and broadcaster Phil Tilney sets out to polish the tarnished image of this often misunderstood craft ... Read More »

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

Angel in the Sun: Turner’s Vision of History

By Gerald Hanley

War is not a picturesque scene. Yet J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), an eminent historical landscape painter of the romantic era, managed to draw beauty out of darkness without glorifying it. Scorched with symbolism and allegory, the ... Read More »

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

Made of Clay: Ceramics of British Columbia

By Carol E. Mayer

Historically, the First Nations in British Columbia didn’t explore clay as a material (aside from using baked clay to remove grease from wool during the weaving process). As such, pottery in B.C. belongs largely to ... Read More »

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

Caring for Profit: How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada’s Health Care System

By Colleen Fuller

Medicare in Canada has been a hybrid system ever since it began in 1968. Governments pay for health care but the money goes to companies, small business people (such as doctors), and non-profit hospitals that ... Read More »

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

Seacoasts

By Pierre Berton

Canada’s coastline is the longest in the world, and yet we don’t view ourselves as a maritime nation. This is the paradox at the heart of Pierre Berton’s Seacoasts. In stark contrast with the lush ... Read More »

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

Small Business Online: A Strategic Guide for Canadian Entrepreneurs

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

In strictly commercial terms, the Internet has been a boon for some and a bust for many, many more. For every Yahoo! there are probably scores of outdated, unvisited, and expensive corporate web sites occupying ... Read More »

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

A Day in the Life of the National Hockey League

By Frank Brown et al, ed.

On the ice in Montreal that wretched September night, Americans were overthrowing us at our game; up in the stands, borne on posterboard above a fan’s head, waved an executive summary of where we stand, ... Read More »

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

Krekshuns

By Dennis E. Bolen

It takes a lot longer to get this dark novel out of your mind than it does to read it. Another in Bolen’s series about Vancouver parole officer Barry Delta, the book is a discordant ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Origin of Waves

By Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke is not the first African-Canadian novelist, though he is one of the most esteemed – and most prolific. While Clarke follows early Ontario writers Martin Delany and William Stowers in chronology (they issued ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Poetic Voices of the Maritimes: A Selection of Contemporary Poetry

By Allison Mitcham,Theresia Quigley, eds.

With the Canadian penchant for regionalism, organizing the national literature in terms of geography is a natural impulse. The sense of place is such an important aspect of this country’s writing that location often provides ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

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