Politics & Current Affairs

Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to have your cake and eating it, too. In fact, it’s darn healthy. But there is something coy about saying, “Thanks, but no thanks,” and then wolfing down a whole ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Canada Is Not a Real Country

By Thomas Schnurmacher

At a dinner party more years ago than I can recall, I remember denouncing a Westmount woman and her ilk for being responsible for the growing separatist movement in Quebec. Heatedly, I argued that the ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Partition Principle: Remapping Quebec After Separation

By Trevor McAlpine

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Enough Is Enough: An Attorney’s Struggle for Democracy in Quebec

By Guy Bertrand, Angéline Fournier, Marie Thérese Blanc, trans.

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Riding the Tiger: How to Outsmart the Computer That Is After Your Job, How Not to Bankrupt Your Organization with Information Management and How Good Clients Get Exceptional Results

By Alistair Davidson,Harvey Gellman, Mary Chung

Alistair Davidson, Harvey Gellman, and Mary Chung are Toronto computer mavens; what they ask in Riding the Tiger is how a manager thrown into a data project can do the job well.Their answer is hard ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Sweat Equity: Entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada

By Allan Lynch

As veteran business writer Allan Lynch points out in his preface to Sweat Equity, Atlantic Canada is not generally perceived – either within the region or without – as a locus for economic success. Yet ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ken Thomson: Canada’s Enigmatic Billionaire

By Vic Parsons

Author Vic Parsons, a veteran journalist who spent six years with Thomson Newspapers, doesn’t hide his disdain for Canada’s richest capitalist, a reclusive press baron whose life bears little resemblance to that of the average ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds

By Michel Tremblay, John van Burek and Bill Glassco, trans.

Modern Quebec theatre was born in 1965, when Michel Tremblay stopped writing plays in French French (in works that he came to call “foreign subliterature”) and started, with Les belles soeurs, writing them in joual.In ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum: A Stage Play Based on the Novel by Sheldon Currie

By Wendy Lill

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Retreat

By Jason Sherman

The titles of two new plays – 1995 GG-winner Jason Sherman’s The Retreat and 1994 GG-winner Morris Panych’s Vigil – conjure up images of intimate, solemn religious rituals. Both plays are, however, nominally comedies, and ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy

Canada Is Not a Real Country

The Partition Principle: Remapping Quebec After Separation

Enough Is Enough: An Attorney’s Struggle for Democracy in Quebec

Riding the Tiger: How to Outsmart the Computer That Is After Your Job, How Not to Bankrupt Your Organization with Information Management and How Good Clients Get Exceptional Results

Sweat Equity: Entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada

Ken Thomson: Canada’s Enigmatic Billionaire

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds

The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum: A Stage Play Based on the Novel by Sheldon Currie

The Retreat

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