Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet

The environmental movement has endured a reputation for negativity since its inception. To simply acknowledge the science behind environmentalism is to embrace this negativity – most of the things that so-called developed human society does ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Hope: Adventures of a Diamond

By Marian Fowler

The Hope diamond has a Zelig-like habit of surfacing in the most storied and fantastical chapters in history, including the first Western forays to India, the court of the Sun King at Versailles, and the ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: History

How Linda Died

By Frank Davey

Linda Davey, a former ballet dancer, lawyer, literary agent, and editorial board member of Coach House Press, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer in the spring of 1999 and died a year later. During his ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Moose Jaw: People Places History

By John Larsen and Maurice Richard Libby

Few Canadian cities are as tightly bound to a single historical decision as Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. When John A. MacDonald mandated the building of a coast-to-coast railroad in the mid-19th century, many believed the new ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: History

Mediathink

By James Winter

Readers concerned about the lack of analysis and independent investigative journalism in the mass media will welcome the third of James Winter’s critiques of the fifth estate. Winter is one angry academic, and his polemical ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Snow Geese: A Story of Home

By William Fiennes

At the age of 26, following a long illness and bout of depression that cut short his postgraduate studies, English journalist William Fiennes thought that life had little left to offer him. Inspired to travel ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Divine Economy of Salvation

By Priscilla Uppal

In the early 1970s an angelic teenage girl named Bella dies mysteriously at St. X. School for Girls. She had been an initiate to “the Sisterhood,” a small group of students who gathered in one ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Saints of Big Harbour

By Lynn Coady

The literary mavens of Canada are keeping a close eye on Lynn Coady because her first two works of fiction (Strange Heaven, a novel, and Play the Monster Blind, a story collection) showed such dazzling ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Crow Lake

By Mary Lawson

Crow Lake begins at a luminous moment for the Morrison family. Luke, the eldest son, has been accepted at teachers’ college, the first of the family to go on to higher education. Matt, two years ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mile End

By Lise Tremblay, Gail Scott, trans.

The unnamed narrator of Lise Tremblay’s Mile End plays the piano for a living, accompanying aspiring singers and ballet dancers. She could do much better if she tried, but she is confused about what she ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Saints of Big Harbour

★ Crow Lake

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