2030: Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime

Author and Greenpeace co-founder Robert Hunter is at his angry best in 2030 when drawing out the scientifically proven (yes, proven) causes of climate change and the disastrous consequences we may already be facing. Think ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

By Warren Cariou

In this good-natured, easygoing memoir, thirtysomething writer Warren Cariou looks back on his rural boyhood in northern Saskatchewan and attempts to capture the ineffable magic of a childhood home. Cariou’s account is leavened by charming ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Requiem for a Lightweight: Stockwell Day and Image Politics

By Trevor W. Harrison

A well-researched study of former Canadian Alliance Party leader Stockwell Day’s meteoric rise to the national spotlight, and subsequent fall to political irrelevance, Requiem for a Lightweight serves as a timely epitaph to Day’s political ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy

By James Raffan

The overwhelming sentiment of James Raffan’s troubling Deep Waters is that the 12 boys who drowned in the 1978 Lake Timiskaming canoeing tragedy never had a chance. Raffan, an experienced canoeist and wilderness lover, convincingly ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Con Game: The Truth About Canada’s Prisons

By Michael Harris

Most people’s vision of life inside a prison comes from popular TV shows like Oz or from such films as Robert Redford’s The Last Castle. But while these works of fiction capture some of the ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

When Things Get Back to Normal

By M.T. Dohaney

M.T. Dohaney was calmly watching television when her husband went out to play hockey with friends. The next time she saw him, she was a widow. His sudden on-ice heart attack left Dohaney reeling, both ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Princess and the Whiskheads: A Fable

By Russell Smith

Set in the mythical kingdom of Liralove, The Princess and the Whiskheads follows the discovery by princess Juliana of strife between a band of bohemian malcontents, called Whiskheads, and the common people. The Whiskheads, who ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sudden Weight of Snow

By Laisha Rosnau

The Sudden Weight of Snow follows one long winter in the life of 17-year-old Sylvia Kostak, known to all of her friends as Harper. Feeling trapped in rural interior B.C., Harper and her best friend ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Making a Stone of the Heart

By Cynthia Flood

Cynthia Flood is a very good storyteller. The winner of the 1990 Journey Prize for short fiction, Flood presents the intertwined stories of a half dozen people in Making a Stone of the Heart, her ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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By Lisa Moore

After millennia of clinging by its fingernails to the edge of North America, Newfoundland is everywhere. It’s on the big screens in The Shipping News and Rare Birds, at the Giller Prize with Michael Crummey’s ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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2030: Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime

Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging

Requiem for a Lightweight: Stockwell Day and Image Politics

Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy

Con Game: The Truth About Canada’s Prisons

When Things Get Back to Normal

The Princess and the Whiskheads: A Fable

The Sudden Weight of Snow

Making a Stone of the Heart

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