Children and YA Non-fiction

Skate: 100 Years of Figure Skating

Even before Harding hit Kerrigan, thousands of Canadians were glued to sets and frozen to bleachers, watching Stojko, Chouinard, and Philippe Candeloro, above, spinning around the ice all over the world. And given the relatively ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ What God Allows: The Crisis of Faith and Conscience in One Catholic Church

By Ivor Shapiro

When Pope John Paul II released his encyclical Vertitatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) in the fall of 1993, it gave members of the Roman Catholic Church much to ponder. It states that certain acts, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

All I Thought About Was Baseball: Writings on a Canadian Pastime

By William Humber and John St. James, eds.

In All I Thought About Was Baseball, editors William Humber and John St. James make reference to the intimate relationship this country has with “the game.” Their insight that this connection stems from the “longing ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality

By Donna Laframboise

If you watch TV or read the popular press, you probably know more about the rebellion against feminism than you do about feminism itself. Nay-sayers to the women’s movement have been popular since Camille Paglia, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ White Tie and Decorations: Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson in Newfoundland, 1934–1936

By Peter Neary, ed.

The title of this selection of letters written from pre-Canadian Newfoundland by one of its British administrators and his wife constitutes a radical undervaluation. White Tie and Decorations is not, in fact, a book about ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Presumption of Culture: Structure, Strategy, and Survival in the Canadian Cultural Landscape

By Tom Henighan

When Sheila Finestone, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, suggested a couple of years ago that “Canada has no national culture,” her intention may have been to affirm Canada’s wide diversity of cultures and lack of ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brink

By Mark Kingwell

As we edge closer to the year 2000, there is one clear sign that the apocalypse is upon us: everyone’s writing about it.And I do mean everyone. It’s getting difficult to open a magazine or ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Back on the Rez: Finding the Way Home

By Brian Maracle

In 1993, Brian Maracle, a Mohawk journalist in his mid-40s, abandoned his career in Ottawa and moved to the largely rural Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario. His family had left the reserve when he ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The End of the World

By John Leslie

Doomsday has a long history, almost as long as that of the human race whose extinction it continually foretells. In the early days of the species, when war, disease, and starvation crowded the horizon, the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

★ Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools

By J.R. Miller

J.R. Miller is a highly regarded Saskatchewan historian, but he also has the makings of an outstanding coroner. In Shingwauk’s Vision, he has autopsied the barely cooled corpse of the native residential school system. With ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

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