Science, Technology & Environment

Canadian Family On-Line

With the advent of the World Wide Web the Internet has irrevocably passed from the purview of technology fetishists into the den of John Q. Public. It’s no surprise then that the Net is now ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Whose Brave New World?: The Information Highway and the New Economy

By Heather Menzies

People are being replaced by computers in many Canadian industries, including banking, oil refining, pulp and paper, and telecommunications. And where they remain, they are becoming hand servants, or “human post-it notes” as Heather Menzies ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Shopping With a Conscience: The Informed Shopper’s Guide to Retailers, Suppliers, and Service Providers in Canada

By David Nitkin, et al.

We can no longer claim ignorance about the companies we do business with. EthicScan Canada has compiled profiles of 114 major corporations that among them dominate the retail industry in this country. Sadly, publishers and ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Shriek in the Forest Night

By R.D. Lawrence

Ronald Douglas Lawrence, a Canadian naturalist of great repute, has chosen to make this, his 27th book, a collection of anecdotes and stories about his adventures with wilderness over the past 40 years. The title ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd

By Pierre Berton

What I was going to do was make a humorous approach to Pierre Berton’s purportedly funny Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd. What I had in mind was a piece poking ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country

By Michael Riordon

Queers are everywhere. That’s the chant and the dogma, but I think secretly most of us believe that, if we queers are not already living in some urban gay ghetto, we’re saving up for the ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Whale: Giant of the Ocean

By Eric S. Grace

The text is hardly worth a glance, but the pictures are pretty in this small coffee table book offering from Key Porter. The new whaling, like the new safari, is seeking to reclaim the bloodthirsty ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

By Howard Engel

In Lord High Executioner, Toronto mystery-writer Howard Engel makes his first foray into non-fiction by providing an historical overview of judicially endorsed agents of death. Though candidly admitting he believes capital punishment ought to be ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Hoffer’s Law of Natural Nutrition

By Abram Hoffer, M.D.

Over the past few decades, an increasing public awareness and interest in alternative therapies has surfaced, partly due to a growing dissatisfaction with mainstream medicine, as well as a general desire to take personal responsibility ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment