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My Nose Is a Gherkin Pickle Gone Wrong

Like dreams, there is a fey quality about Marilyn Gear Pilling’s short stories, and a rawness. The title story in this collection – Pilling’s first – is about the woman with the gherkin pickle nose. ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Hunting Down Home

By Jean McNeil

Cruel seasons, isolated landscapes, a bloody history, madness, alcoholism, and a narrator named Morag: could a first novel possibly be more Canadian? Jean McNeil, a 28-year-old New Brunswick-born writer now based in England bravely takes ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ No Surrender: Reflections of a Happy Warrior in the Tory Crusade

By Hugh Segal

Despite its partisan reek, this is a very good, at times terrific, memoir: engaging, insightful, and informative. Alas for the author’s shrinking band of red Tories, their historic Conservative party home is endangered. The ideological ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shopping With a Conscience: The Informed Shopper’s Guide to Retailers, Suppliers, and Service Providers in Canada

By David Nitkin, et al.

We can no longer claim ignorance about the companies we do business with. EthicScan Canada has compiled profiles of 114 major corporations that among them dominate the retail industry in this country. Sadly, publishers and ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk

By Ingeborg Marshall

I learned a little about the Beothuk while attending public school on the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve. I heard stories of Indians who had been killed by the English a long time ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

A Shriek in the Forest Night

By R.D. Lawrence

Ronald Douglas Lawrence, a Canadian naturalist of great repute, has chosen to make this, his 27th book, a collection of anecdotes and stories about his adventures with wilderness over the past 40 years. The title ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

How Architecture Speaks, and Fashions Our Lives

By Harry Mayerovitch

I was at Price Chopper the other day, picking up food for the week. The usual Wednesday evening routine. Walking home, I stopped dead in my tracks and dropped the bags I was carrying. There ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

McLuhan, Or Modernism in Reverse

By Glenn Willmott

As computer technology insinuates itself more deeply into the social fabric, the first critic of the electronic age is receiving new scholarly attention. The latest addition to the literature is Glenn Willmott’s McLuhan, Or Modernism ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Canadian Reference Sources: An Annotated Bibliography

By Mary Bond, ed.

For some time the scholarly and library communities have been awaiting the National Library of Canada’s new bilingual bibliography intended to update Dorothy Ryder’s Canadian Reference Sources: A Selective Guide (1981). Originally slated for publication ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Home Repairs and Improvements on a Budget

By Gary Branson

I get a big kick out of watching home improvement shows. There’s a surreal sense of hosting optimism infused with a healthy dose of magic realism at work. Every project is a series of well-orchestrated, ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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Quill and Quire

My Nose Is a Gherkin Pickle Gone Wrong

Hunting Down Home

★ No Surrender: Reflections of a Happy Warrior in the Tory Crusade

Shopping With a Conscience: The Informed Shopper’s Guide to Retailers, Suppliers, and Service Providers in Canada

★ A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk

A Shriek in the Forest Night

How Architecture Speaks, and Fashions Our Lives

McLuhan, Or Modernism in Reverse

Canadian Reference Sources: An Annotated Bibliography

Home Repairs and Improvements on a Budget

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