Politics & Current Affairs

Loyal No More: Ontario’s Struggle for a Separate Identity

John Ibbitson, a columnist with the Globe and Mail, is a brave writer. While he could have limited the scope of Loyal No More to the current impasse between Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill, Ibbitson ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Mavericks: Lessons from the West’s Winning Entrepreneurs

By Paul Grescoe

Paul Grescoe is talented as a writer and connected as a businessman. The two qualities result in a well-crafted book of profiles of merchants and manufacturers in his part of the world. A continuation of ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Broad Canvas: Portraits of Women by Women

By Linda Rogers, Barbara Pedrick photog.

“You are not mad,” poet Robin Skelton once said to Susan Musgrave: “You are a poet.” At the time – the late sixties – the wiry teenager was hospitalized because everyone else thought she was ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of the Mafia’s Royal Family

By Lee Lamothe and Antonio Nicaso

If Tony Soprano had moved to Canada in the 1970s he would have found a congenial environment for made guys. Certainly he could have graduated from whack jobs to expensive manicures. As Bloodlines makes clear, ... Read More »

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

Another Season’s Promise: Hope and Despair in Canada’s Farm Country

By Ingeborg Boyens

The oft-repeated Canadian “farm crisis” soundbite finally gets an in-depth exploration with veteran journalist and author Ingeborg Boyens’ comprehensive overview of the problems facing the family farm. Another Season’s Promise explores the farm crisis not ... Read More »

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

Ethnicities: Plays from the New West

By Padma Viswanathan, Marty Chan, Jonathan Christenson, and Joey Tremblay

In the introduction, Anne Nothof says that what these recent plays have in common is “their resistance to the hegemony of Anglo society.” Perhaps, but all three are also finely crafted, imaginative plays from innovative ... Read More »

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

Running to Paradise: A Play About Elizabeth Bishop

By Donna E. Smyth

Shortly before she died in 1979, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop received an honorary degree from Dalhousie University. Bishop was born in Massachusetts, but was raised by her grandparents in Great Village, Nova Scotia. She ... Read More »

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

Shoreline: Three Plays

By Don Hannah

Don Hannah’s plays demonstrate the theatre’s ability to grab the emotions of an audience and not let go for a second. The three plays collected here, Rubber Dolly, Running Far Back, and Fathers and Sons, ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Marion Bridge

By Daniel MacIvor

Home is where you hang yourself.” It may be a flippant, throwaway line in Ann Lambert’s play Very Heaven but it does capture the destructive essence of family life as portrayed by these two Canadian ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs