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★ The Death of Hockey: Or How a Bunch of Guys with Too Much Money and Too Little Sense Are Killing the Greatest Game on Earth

“What’s wrong with the National Hockey League these days?”That question has likely been asked thousands of times from coast to coast in this country over the last five years – in sports bars, around office ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Death by Television

By Ian Johnston

Television critic for the Halifax Daily News, Ian Johnston styles himself “a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers and couch potatoes.” But given the contents of Johnston’s book, this fraternity isn’t worth its couches. ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Yesterday’s News: Why Canada’s Newspapers Are Failing Us

By John Miller

John Miller is fed up and he’s not going to take it any more. The professor of newspaper journalism at Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnic University has written an exceptionally researched, lively lament of the current daily ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

By Wendy Shalit

Where I live – grassland southwest of quasi-urban Victoria – 4H-ers put it this way: “Owning a horse costs a lot of money, but so does teenage pregnancy.” Tight, logical, no bullshit. In livestock resides ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A History of Celibacy: Experiments Through the Ages

By Elizabeth Abbott

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography

By Claire Drainie Taylor

Portrait of a Marriage might be a more apt title for this book, as Claire Drainie Taylor devotes over two-thirds of The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography to her life with the actor and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia

By Christine Overall

Queen’s University philosophy professor Christine Overall lives her feminism inside the classroom and out.“Feminism,” she writes, “is the heart of who I am, not only as an academic, but as a citizen and an individual.” ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Random Excess: The Wild Ride of Michael Cowpland and Corel

By Ross Laver

In the rapidly changing world of computers, no Canadian company has made a bigger splash than Ottawa’s Corel Corporation. Led by Mitel founder Michael Cowpland, the company surged into the headlines as business reversals caused ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife, and Her Money

By Stevie Cameron

Stevie Cameron does here what she is known for: she delves. This time it’s into the lives of Montreal tax lawyer Bruce Verchere and his wife Lynne – and a myriad of other characters drawn, ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

East and West

By Chris Patten

Newspapers in China called Chris Patten a criminal, a serpent, and a whore. The country’s politicians and diplomats alternately snubbed him, scolded him, and threatened him. He was second-guessed and undercut by traditionalists in Britain’s ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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★ The Death of Hockey: Or How a Bunch of Guys with Too Much Money and Too Little Sense Are Killing the Greatest Game on Earth

Death by Television

Yesterday’s News: Why Canada’s Newspapers Are Failing Us

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

A History of Celibacy: Experiments Through the Ages

The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography

A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia

Random Excess: The Wild Ride of Michael Cowpland and Corel

Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife, and Her Money

East and West

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