Reviews

Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge

By Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard, and Nick Rivers

Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson and Simon Fraser University profs Marc Jaccard and Nic Rivers go to town with this look at Canada’s abysmal record on climate change. They’re mostly preaching to the eco-choir ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

By Tim Bowling

Readers picking up this book should be forewarned by its title: this is nostalgia with an edge. Novelist and award-winning poet Tim Bowling grew up in the 1960s in Ladner, on the banks of the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory

By Jane Irwin; John de Visser, photog.

It’s hard to imagine anyone racking up more travel points than photographer John de Visser, who travelled extensively around Canada to shoot material for two collections: Peter and Douglas Richardson’s Canadian Churches and Jane Irwin’s ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power

By Tom Flanagan

Harper’s Team is a lively and intriguing firsthand account of Stephen Harper’s rise to power, as well as a valuable historical document that does not pretend to be unbiased. With an infectious excitement about the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide

By Jonathan Garfinkel

Ambivalence is poet and playwright Jonathan Garfinkel’s memoir of his exploration of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and his attempts to come to terms with his own Jewish faith. Garfinkel had a sheltered ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Therefore Repent!

By Jim Munroe; Salgood Sam, illus.

With his new graphic novel project, writer and DIY publishing pioneer Jim Munroe builds on the events of the Book of Revelation to create a bold and imaginative new world. This is by no means ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica

The Art of the Possible: A Handbook for Political Activism

By Amanda Sussman

The title, as well as the content, of Amanda Sussman’s guide to lobbying the federal government neatly demonstrates just how far we’ve come since the heady days of the 1960s, when “Be Realistic, Demand the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide

By Laura Murray, Sam Trosow

Canadian Copyright is a timely but risky book. Its arrival falls smack between the Liberals’ failed attempt to revamp Canadian copyright law and the rumblings of an imminent Conservative foray into the same territory. If ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

My Mother’s Daughter

By Rona Maynard

Rona Maynard has deep roots in the worlds of art and storytelling. She was the editor of Chatelaine for 10 years. Before that, she worked at Maclean’s under Peter C. Newman. Her mother, Fredelle Maynard, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling

By Bret Hart

In the end, it doesn’t really matter if pro wrestling is fake or not. Because, as is made clear from Bret “Hitman” Hart’s autobiography, the athleticism required to execute wrestling’s pre-scripted entertainment is real – ... Read More »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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