Politics & Current Affairs

Stratford Gold

The Stratford Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer, so books about its history are virtually guaranteed a good sale, even if they serve simply to decorate coffee tables as a sign of cultural ... Read More »

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

Fifty Seasons at Stratford

By Robert Cushman

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Secret Language of Girls

By Josey Vogels

There aren’t many secrets revealed in The Secret Language of Girls. But, then again, I’m a girl, making me privy, I suppose, to these secrets. The book is the fourth from Josey Vogels, a Canadian ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

By Joel Bakan

The post-9/11 chill that muted some critics of corporate business practices did nothing to stop professor Joel Bakan from pursuing his own thesis: that corporations are, by structure, nature, and law, pathological creatures with zero ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership, and the Making of Canada

By John Duffy

I must come clean here. Canadian history often puts me to sleep, a fact that may or may not make me the ideal reader for Fights of Our Lives. However, John Duffy’s account of the ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ardor in the Court! Sex and the Law

By Jeffrey Miller

As Jeffrey Miller, author and popular columnist for The Lawyers Weekly, notes in his introduction, a lifetime of research into sex and the law would cover only the margins of the subject. Playing in those ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of Afghan Women

By Sally Armstrong

In March 1997, Sally Armstrong flew to Pakistan as a journalist. She returned to Toronto an activist. Armstrong was researching an article about the treatment of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban for Homemaker’s magazine, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Shakespeare’s Face: Is This the Face of Genius?

By Stephanie Nolen

When her mother mentioned to journalist Stephanie Nolen that a neighbour had a one-of-a-kind portrait of William Shakespeare that might be worth a lot of money, little did the younger Nolen realize that her pursuit ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Law, Corporate Crime and the Perversion of Democracy

By Harry Glasbeek

In a world where corporate names like Enron and Arthur Andersen have become synonymous with greed, fraud, and illegality, there is still little structural analysis on how yesterday’s dot-com glamour boys become today’s subpoenaed congressional ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate

By Naomi Klein

That two of the anti-globalization movement’s leading lights, women known in these circles on a first-name-only basis as Maude (Barlow) and Naomi (Klein), should come from relatively privileged but dissatisfied Canada is no surprise. Canadians ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Stratford Gold

Fifty Seasons at Stratford

The Secret Language of Girls

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership, and the Making of Canada

Ardor in the Court! Sex and the Law

Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of Afghan Women

Shakespeare’s Face: Is This the Face of Genius?

Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Law, Corporate Crime and the Perversion of Democracy

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate

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