Madeleine Parent, Activist

While Canadians have decidedly divided views on the benefits of organized labour, there’s no doubt that the paucity of books on the movement’s struggles makes it easy to forget that paid maternity leave and work-free ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

My Union, My Life

By Jean-Claude Parrot

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Canada and the Liberation of The Netherlands, May 1945

By Lance Goddard

Much is made of the special and enduring friendship between the Dutch and Canadians that began with the triumphant arrival of liberation forces in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in May 1945. The arrival of Canadian soldiers ... Read More »

May 16, 2005 | Filed under: History

British Columbia: Land of Promises

By Patricia E. Roy and John Herd Thompson

Patricia Roy and John Herd Thompson’s book on B.C. closes with, “All you have to do is wake up in B.C. to realize how lucky you are.” This is just as well because, as the ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

The Molly Fire

By Michael Mitchell

The Molly Fire is an unconventional book. More anthropological than a memoir, too fragmented for any strong narrative lifeline, this book is a miscellany in the best, most exploratory and curious sense of the word.Photographer, ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War 1939-1945

By J.L. Granatstein

If Canada came of age during the First World War, then the Second World War brought the country to robust adulthood. In his illustrated history of Canada’s contribution to the Second World War, historian J.L. ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

The Wildfire Season

By Andrew Pyper

In a poignant section near the beginning of Andrew Pyper’s third novel, Miles McEwan attempts to come to terms with life after suffering disfiguring burns he received fighting wildfires in B.C. He returns home to ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gently Down the Stream

By Ray Robertson

The experience of reading Ray Robertson’s fourth novel is analogous to the careless slide through life evoked by the title, recalling the jobless summer days of childhood, when books were read without a thought for ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

He Drown She in the Sea

By Shani Mootoo

Shani Mootoo’s second novel, He Drown She in the Sea, set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Guanagaspar, is a tale of lovers stymied by class divisions and circumstance, star-crossed in a very post-colonial, contemporary ... Read More »

May 9, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit

By Laura Penny

"Your call is important to us.” We’ve all this line before, but if my call were truly important to you, I would be talking to a living being instead of hanging on hold and being ... Read More »

May 2, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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