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Bulldog: Spirit of the New Entrepreneur

The fastest growing segment of the self-employed market in Canada today is composed of women. Female entrepreneurs are at the leading edge of our economy’s knowledge workers and are launching their own businesses in record ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fire into Ice: Charles Fipke and the Great Diamond Hunt

By Vernon Frolick

Vernon Frolick, a criminal prosecutor in British Columbia, tackles the biography of Chuck Fipke, the man who proved that there were commercial diamonds in Canada.Fipke is a driven man. Working in unbelievably remote areas of ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ A Story as Sharp as a Knife: An Introduction to Classical Haida Literature

By Robert Bringhurst

Scene: Christmas in Victoria, the parlour of a 1914 Arts and Crafts revamp. The floors are first- growth fir, there is dark wainscotting, the ceilings are high. A chatty cocktail soirée for periodical writers who ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art

By Allan J. Ryan

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Understanding Modern Art: The Boundless Spirit of Clay Edgar Spohn

By David Beasley

Lots of artists have the talent to become noted masters, but more than just creativeness is required to reach greatness. It takes an enormous ego, unfailing gumption, and blind determination. Many who inherit creativity but ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives

By Renée Hulan, ed.

Until very recently, aboriginal literature (AbLit) in Canada was dismissed as protest literature, or, worse, used as the basis for ethnographic study of aboriginal culture. Although this has changed somewhat in recent years, there is ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Fit to Print

By Alan Halsey and Karen Mac Cormack

Alan Halsey and Karen Mac Cormack invest the mundane newspaper column with striking poetic resonance in Fit to Print, a collection of poems whose exuberant invention recalls tabloid coverage of the moment. Arranged in one ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Last Thing My Father Gave Me

By Ernest Hekkanen

Ernest Hekkanen’s large body of work – he is the author of more than a dozen books including novels, poetry, and non-fiction – has been largely overlooked by the literary mainstream. This is partly because ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Bite the Stars

By Eliza Clark

For a populist form, country music is not to everyone’s taste. Its smooth and stylized emotions can seem a world away from the unvarnished pain of the blues. But once in a rare while, a ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Get on Top

By David Homel

David Homel has delivered unto us a novel-length parable of sex, violence, sin, and a dusty old Jewish prophet-peddler’s wish to reveal the Messiah. The Messiah in this novel is Sabbitha Hunter, an 18-year-old blond ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Bulldog: Spirit of the New Entrepreneur

Fire into Ice: Charles Fipke and the Great Diamond Hunt

★ A Story as Sharp as a Knife: An Introduction to Classical Haida Literature

★ The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art

Understanding Modern Art: The Boundless Spirit of Clay Edgar Spohn

Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives

Fit to Print

The Last Thing My Father Gave Me

★ Bite the Stars

Get on Top

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