Degrees of Freedom: Canada and the United States in a Changing World

By Keith Banting,George Hoberg, Richard Simeon, eds.

Canadians have always argued about how vigorously to resist the economic and cultural pull of the United States – and never more so than in the era of free trade. For the left, the possibility ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Great Dames

By Elspeth Cameron,Janice Dickin, eds.

Great Dames is a great title, and a fitting one, for this collection of short biographies of 20th-century Canadian women. The editors and contributors are all feminist scholars, but you don’t have to be a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Canadian Sourcebook 1997

By Barbara Law,ed.

It is the policy of the editors of the annual Canadian Sourcebook, formerly known as the Corpus Almanac and Sourcebook, to include significant changes each year – changes suggested by its users. For 1997, the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Place Names of Ontario

By Alan Rayburn

One of the guilty little secrets of those who read biographies of people they know is that they invariably look in the index first to see if they are listed. Relief, exultation, or anger can ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Beyond the Waterfall

By Elaine Breault Hammond

Maggie, a teen orphan who lives with her aunt in New Brunswick, is once again transported into the past in Hammond’s second historical time travel novel – this time, into a Manitoban pioneer settlement. She ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

The Half-Pipe Kidd

By Alison Acheson

As his unusual name suggests, Ogilvie Kidd struggles with a double identity. He’s usually known as Kidd, the freestyle BMX bike rider who takes air on his backyard half-pipe, revelling in the sheer physical edge ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Stranger at Bay

By Don Aker

Young adult novels tend to follow a standard plot: basically decent kid suffers a disruption of normal life – loss of a parent, acquisition of a step-parent, a change in fortune. Kid acts out, falls ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty

By Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is an international investment agreement and global trade regime being negotiated by 29 industrial states including Canada. Authors Maude Barlow, national volunteer chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Invisible Day

By Marthe Jocelyn, Abby Carter, illus.

In The Invisible Day, we’re introduced to fifth-grader Billie Stoner and – almost more importantly – to New York City, which is at once the book’s biggest asset and greatest drawback.Billie lives with her mother ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Goldstone

By Julie Lawson

Born in Canada to Swedish immigrant parents in the early 20th century, 12-year-old Karin sees herself as a modern Canadian girl. Her father speaks English: why does her mother cling to her language and old-country ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

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