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National Post Smart Funds 2000: A Fund Family Approach to Mutual Funds

By Jonathan Chevreau and Stephen Kangas with Susan Heinrich

There is a deluge of mutual fund books available at the start of the 60-day season (which begins Jan. 1) when most taxpayers begin planning their Registered Retirement Savings Plan investments. Mutual funds are a ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Dogs with Jobs: Working Dogs Around the World

By Merrily Weisbord and Kim Kachanoff

The history of mankind’s relationship with dogs has largely been that of master and domesticated servant, with working dogs performing tasks that capitalize on their natural strengths and instincts. Recently, this relationship has shifted to ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Canadian Children’s Books: A Critical Guide to Authors and Illustrators

By Raymond E. Jones,Jon C. Stott

I recently received an inquiry from someone asking for current information on Canadian writing for young adults. My suggestions were cumbersome. Sheila Egoff’s The New Republic of Childhood and Judith Saltman’s Modern Canadian Children’s Books, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination

By Bryan Demchinsky and Elaine Kalman Naves

In April, at Montreal’s second annual Blue Metropolis literary festival, writers from Scotland, Trinidad, and Toronto tossed around variations on a theme: can one live imaginatively in one’s homeplace before it has been represented in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Midlife Runaway: A Grown Ups’ Guide to Taking a Year off

By Lynda Cronin

Lynda Cronin’s midlife crisis was fairly typical: the Victoria, B.C., consultant felt burnt out by career woes, the demands of extended family members, and minor health problems. But instead of buying a sports car or ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Hostels Canada

I bought a travel guide once. It ruined me for others. Despite Venice, Italy, its focus of fascination, the book’s toothless narrative and irksome use of the pronoun we – “as we near the gondola docks…we ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Lobster Kids’ Guide to Exploring Montreal

By John Symon, illustrated by Christine Battuz

I bought a travel guide once. It ruined me for others. Despite Venice, Italy, its focus of fascination, the book’s toothless narrative and irksome use of the pronoun we – “as we near the gondola docks…we ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Romantic Days and Nights in Vancouver

By Rick Cropp and Barbara Braidwood

I bought a travel guide once. It ruined me for others. Despite Venice, Italy, its focus of fascination, the book’s toothless narrative and irksome use of the pronoun we – “as we near the gondola docks…we ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The African-American Travel Guide

By Wayne C. Robinson

I bought a travel guide once. It ruined me for others. Despite Venice, Italy, its focus of fascination, the book’s toothless narrative and irksome use of the pronoun we – “as we near the gondola docks…we ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey

By Alison Wearing

Whatever our reasons for setting off on a trip, most of us discover new perspectives and explore our own identities while travelling. We do take ourselves with us, as Plato said, wherever we go. We ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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