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Dorothy L’Amour

By Lynn Crosbie

When B.C’s own Playboy celebrity Dorothy Stratten was killed by her ex-lover in 1980, the Vancouver newspapers reported the facts of her murder with something of a subtle agenda. They played up her innocence and ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Then Again

By Elyse Friedman

This comic first novel by Toronto writer Elyse Friedman is the literary equivalent of a garage band gig: what it lacks in subtlety, it gains in energy, velocity, and sheer rude exuberance. Admittedly, these are ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vancouver: Secrets of the City

By Shawn Blore and the editors of Vancouver Magazine

Having grown up in the rural, largely agricultural end of southwestern British Columbia, I had, by a very young age, grown quite tired of the province. Oh, sure, I could concede it was beautiful, but ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Great Vancouver: An Indispensable Guide to Places to Go and Things to Do in the Lower Mainland

By The Province

Having grown up in the rural, largely agricultural end of southwestern British Columbia, I had, by a very young age, grown quite tired of the province. Oh, sure, I could concede it was beautiful, but ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Vancouver, 3d Ed.

By Ulysses Travel Guides

Having grown up in the rural, largely agricultural end of southwestern British Columbia, I had, by a very young age, grown quite tired of the province. Oh, sure, I could concede it was beautiful, but ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Scenic Driving British Columbia

Having grown up in the rural, largely agricultural end of southwestern British Columbia, I had, by a very young age, grown quite tired of the province. Oh, sure, I could concede it was beautiful, but ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Secret Coastline: Journeys and Discoveries Along B.c.’s Shores

By Andrew Scott

Having grown up in the rural, largely agricultural end of southwestern British Columbia, I had, by a very young age, grown quite tired of the province. Oh, sure, I could concede it was beautiful, but ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ A Good House

By Bonnie Burnard

Comparisons with Alice Munro are inevitable. Bonnie Burnard has staked out similar territory, in this case, a Western Ontario town north of London up toward Lake Huron. Like Munro, Burnard has made her name with ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Mark of the Angel

By Nancy Huston

If Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces asks, “can there be poetry after the Holocaust?” Nancy Huston’s latest novel asks, “can there be music?” While Huston is less swirling in her sentences, less abandoned in her plot ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cybershock: Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption

By Winn Schwartau

Back in the old days before the Web was born, sometime around 1985, a Toronto computer dealer set up an online bulletin board. It was a modest affair that enabled his customers to post messages ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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