Lawrence Aronsen was a student activist in Vancouver during the 1960s. He’s now a professor of history at the University of Alberta. This combination makes him a logical person to write about the West Coast ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History
It’s thrilling, for a reader, to discover a new amateur detective devoid of stock clichés, unique and refreshingly human. To the august company of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce and Alexander McCall Smith’s Precious Ramotswe ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
In his new book, Allan C. Hutchinson, a professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, examines eight milestone legal cases from Canadian, British, American, and Australian history to support his contention that ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
By overlooking the lives and achievements of blacks in the larger story of Canada’s development, historians have done a disservice to the thousands of Africans who came to Hamilton beginning in the 1800s, when the ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History
One of the more annoying problems plaguing gastronomy is a fickle public’s appetite for trends. (Remember how low-carb was going to change the world?) The latest dietary fad is the awkwardly named “flexitarianism,” which is ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Drink
Editor Jared Bland opens this essay anthology with a story about his father. The two of them were walking near their home when 13-year-old Bland said something offensive. Bland’s father pinned him against the wall ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
The second novel from Michael V. Smith (whose first, Cumberland, was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award), opens with a death, seen from a great distance. Helen Massey is picnicking at the grave of ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Few conflicts in the world today provoke such a visceral reaction as that between Israel and Palestine. While bookshelves are well stocked with political and historical analyses of the region and its seemingly intractable difficulties, ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In the wake of Naomi Klein’s 1999 bestseller No Logo, many pundits and experts have stepped up to take sides in the war on consumerism. Industry supporters have lined up to trumpet the benefits of ... Read More »
May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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