The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s Canada

Chris Turner is angry. And he has every right to be. In The War on Science, the veteran journalist lays out the federal Conservatives’ systematic efforts to remove science from Canadian politics. His argument is ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Chuvalo: A Fighter’s Life

By George Chuvalo and Murray Greig

Here are some things commonly said of boxing hall-of-famer George Chuvalo: he could take a punch, he threw powerful body shots that sometimes drifted below the belt, he never won a major title, and his ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Dollybird

By Anne Lazurko

Set in and around Moose Jaw and Ibsen, Saskatchewan, in 1906, Dollybird tells the story of a 20-year-old Newfoundlander named Moira Burns who is banished by her mother when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock. ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fallsy Downsies

By Stephanie Domet

Cantankerous folk musician Lansing Meadows is on the final cross-country tour of his career, which will be capped off by a lifetime achievement award he views as his dismissal from the spotlight. He is accompanied ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Keon and Me: My Search for the Lost Soul of the Leafs

By Dave Bidini

Two boys, both regularly beaten black and blue by the schoolyard bully and disappointed by the doomed fortunes of their respective hometown hockey teams, find salvation from eternal nerdom by joining rock bands. The two ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie

By Grant Lawrence

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Lighthouse Island

By Paulette Jiles

Poet, novelist, and memoirist Paulette Jiles stakes out new ground in her latest novel, eschewing her preferred mode of historical fiction in favour of literary dystopia. In Lighthouse Island, Jiles tells the story of a ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The City Still Breathing

By Matthew Heiti

Unfolding over the course of an early winter’s night in a Northern Ontario town, The City Still Breathing begins with a dead body found on the side of a highway, naked, throat slashed, and with ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rupert’s Land

By Meredith Quartermain

In her first novel, poet Meredith Quartermain tackles the difficult subject of Canada’s treatment of its native population. Set in the 1930s, Rupert’s Land examines the lives of two young adults: Cora, a white girl ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Strength of Bone

By Lucie Wilk

In a hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Henry Bryce, a Canadian doctor on the run from a family tragedy, discovers the limitations of his brand of Western pragmatism. At the same time, Iris, a local nurse ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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