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Turning Points: The Detroit Riots of 1967, a Canadian Perspective

The city of Windsor, Ontario, is often a forgotten footnote in Canadian geography and history, dwarfed by its sister city across the border, Detroit. Herb Colling has rectified that neglected status with a number of ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada’s Writers

By Roy MacSkimming

If Roy MacSkimming wanted a pithy epigraph to begin his comprehensive history of the English Canadian publishing industry, he could always use the shopworn “Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose.” Since the industry’s ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: History

Searching for Sofia: A Balkan Odyssey

By John Nadler

As a news editor in Ottawa and Vancouver newsrooms at the time when stories about the Balkans were the top foreign news of the day, I always instructed other editors to wait, no matter what ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: History

All Hell Can’t Stop Us: The On-to-ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

By Bill Waiser

Historian Bill Waiser has done a remarkable job of resurrecting a landmark, but ill-remembered, chapter in Canadian history with his excellent depiction of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa protest trek. The trek to Ottawa was a country-wide ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground

By J. Edward Chamberlin

Ted Chamberlin teaches comparative literature at the University of Toronto and has worked on native land claims in the United States, Canada, Africa, and Australia. He is also a former poetry editor for Saturday Night ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

Prairie People: A Celebration of My Homeland

By Robert Collins

Veteran journalist Robert Collins has compiled a kind of field guide to the prairie provinces that is both homage and mythology. The book consists of short pieces that are collected in chapters with such titles ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: History

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front

By Madeleine Gagnon, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, trans.

Women in a World at War, by Quebec writer Madeleine Gagnon, is an extraordinary work. Less investigative journalism than an extended effort to view the war-torn world through a poet’s gaze, the book crosses borders ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

Booze: A Spirited History

By Craig Heron

What started as an art exhibition about working class people and drinking has evolved into Craig Heron’s unique social history of alcohol in Canada. Covering a period that ranges from the European colonists’ introduction of ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire

By Matthew Fraser

Weapons of Mass Distraction ends with the words “yes, things really do go better with Coke.” That sentence sums up both the thesis and the moral of National Post editor Matthew Fraser’s most recent book. ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business

By Madelaine Drohan

In a story unlikely to endear her to editors of the business pages, journalist Madelaine Drohan tackles the growing corporate use of mercenary armies to protect their business interests. Making a Killing focuses on Africa, ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

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Turning Points: The Detroit Riots of 1967, a Canadian Perspective

The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada’s Writers

Searching for Sofia: A Balkan Odyssey

All Hell Can’t Stop Us: The On-to-ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground

Prairie People: A Celebration of My Homeland

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front

Booze: A Spirited History

Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire

Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business

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