Politics & Current Affairs

The Baby Blues

Look out Norm Foster! Drew Hayden Taylor is nipping at your heels with The Baby Blues. Like so many of Foster’s plays, this one should be right at home in summer theatres across the country. ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Staging the North

By Sherrill Grace, Eve D’Aeth, and Lisa Chalykoff, eds.

The 12 plays in this collection present Canada’s North as a place of unresolvable tensions. The landscape is certainly harsh, but no less brutal is the “complex, crushed geography” of those who venture into this ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the 20th Century

By Gary G. Hamilton, ed.

Chinese diaspora? Yes, indeed there is one, and it has ramifications for many countries, including Canada. With an introduction by Gary Hamilton, who teaches sociology at the University of Washington, this collection of nine academic ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Snake in Fridge

By Brad Fraser

The main protagonist in Brad Fraser’s new play Snake in Fridge is a house. Owned by a pornography ringleader, inhabited by six characters possessed by personal demons, and witness to the murder of a neophyte ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Power of the Wheel: The Falun Gong Revolution

By Ian Adams,Riley Adams and Rocco Galati

Newspaper photos of Chinese police arresting practitioners of tai-chi-like exercises called Falun Gong have appeared frequently in the past year, yet little is known in the West about this decade-old phenomenon. In a refreshing attempt ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told

By Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, eds.

This will be the last time I consider a “women’s” anthology. This review – of a book of essays edited by women and written by women about things women apparently don’t talk about – will ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

No Guts No Glory: How Canada’s Greatest Ceos Built Their Empires

By David Olive

What is happiness? The feeling that power increases – that resistance is being overcome.” David Olive cites that line from Friedrich Nietzsche as the epigraph of his new book. The quotation is a signal that ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Kidfluence: Why Kids Today Mean Business

By Anne Sutherland and Beth Thompson

Kids change you. Before my son was born two years ago, I was a reluctant consumer, at best. Now, I shop with an intensity that would make Mila Mulroney blush. I know why the economy ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bricks to Clicks: E-strategies That Will Transform Your Business

By Ed McMahon

“Bricks to clicks” is a catchy phrase that describes the long and complex process that an established “real-world” retailer must undertake in order to establish an online retail presence. Ed McMahon, a Toronto-based management consultant, ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Nortel Networks: How Innovation and Vision Created a Network Giant

By Larry MacDonald

When there are so many nooks and crannies within a company that a manager can secretly divert several top scientists onto a hush-hush laser research project, you know you’re dealing with a behemoth.And a behemoth ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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The Baby Blues

Staging the North

Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the 20th Century

Snake in Fridge

Power of the Wheel: The Falun Gong Revolution

Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told

No Guts No Glory: How Canada’s Greatest Ceos Built Their Empires

Kidfluence: Why Kids Today Mean Business

Bricks to Clicks: E-strategies That Will Transform Your Business

Nortel Networks: How Innovation and Vision Created a Network Giant

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