Harm’s Way

The title poem of Maureen Hynes’s second collection depicts the book as a sort of travel narrative for Amazons: “Some of us wear a piece of the road as an amulet/over our breastbones.” The book’s ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Dove Legend

By Richard Outram

Beginning Dove Legend, the newest collection by award-winning Toronto poet Richard Outram, is a little like entering a foreign language. Outram’s conventional poetic forms and strict rhymes, combined with his use of archaic language, will ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Exact Fare Only: Good, Bad & Ugly Rides on Public Transit

By Grant Buday,ed.

It’s difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a tribute to the stale air of a long, cramped ride on a Greyhound or the congestion of a subway during rush hour. Yet despite – or perhaps ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

What Happens When I Die?

By Brian Stiller

Potential bookbuyers testing the heft of Stiller’s slender volume may respond to its titular question with a snarky, “Not much, apparently.” Yet Stiller, the president of Tyndale College and Seminary, packs a lot into What ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Unseen Power: How Mutual Funds Threaten the Political and Economic Wealth of Nations

By Adam Harmes

In the world of heartless globalization and mass layoffs, runaway corporate profits and greedy CEOs, Adam Harmes has seen the enemy and, to a large extent, the enemy is us: the individual investor facing down ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Living Workplace: Soul, Spirit and Success in the 21st Century

By Ann Coombs with Marion E. Raycheba

A few years ago I taught English at a prestigious private school, an experience that left me feeling like an indentured servant. Wanting a more balanced life, with time for family and friends, I left ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr

By Susan Crean

Emily Carr is a Canadian icon, and like many another icon, her exact meaning is constantly being re-evaluated. Carr has enjoyed several incarnations: tortured artist, pioneering modernist, mystical nationalist, feminist trailblazer, dotty recluse, best-selling author, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World

By Clark Blaise

In Time Lord, Clark Blaise pays homage to the creation and evolution of a modern and postmodern consciousness of time through the biography of Sir Sandford Fleming, the inventor of standard time. It is more ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Inside Out

By Evelyn Lau

Vancouver writer Evelyn Lau has never been reticent when it comes to self-revelation. Inside Out, her second volume of memoirs (the first, the best-selling Runaway, was published when Lau was just 18) continues to document ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Just Another Indian: A Serial Killer and Canada’s Indifference

By Warren Goulding

In 1996, John Martin Crawford was convicted of one count of first- and two counts of second-degree murder in the 1992 deaths of Shelley Napope, Calinda Waterhen, and Eva Taysup. The remains of the women, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

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