Science, Technology & Environment

The Next Canada: In Search of Our Future Nation

It’s a daunting task, making sense of an entire generation. Particularly one as polycultural and socially diverse as Canada’s current crop of 25-35-year-olds. So we look to writers to provide perspective and focus, to stamp ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Music Online

By Frank Lenk

Frank Lenk’s Music Online is a computer manual that foregoes most of the technical jargon frequently used by such books, instead presenting the material in clear, reader-friendly language. That was a relief to me, someone ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Star-spangled Canadians: Canadians Living the American Dream

By Jeffrey Simpson

Oh, say can you see all the ambitious, talented Canadians filtering relentlessly across the 49th parallel, leaving behind a shrivelled husk of a country? Well, the picture is not quite that dramatic, and not nearly ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage

By Trevor Herriot

I have never been to Saskatchewan. But anyone who spent a good chunk of childhood outside of a city – be it home, cottage, or grandparents’ farm – will instantly recognize the insistent, unmistakable pull ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Wild Stone Heart: An Apprentice in the Fields

By Sharon Butala

In her 1994 book The Perfection of the Morning, Sharon Butala extended her reputation as a gifted writer of fiction with a remarkable non-fiction account of her intense, evolving relationship with the natural world. In ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Quantum Jump: A Survival Guide for the Next Renaissance

By W. R. Clement

With the millennium around the corner, the pundits are beginning to publish like it’s 1999. We are soon to be awash in tomes proclaiming the arrival of the 21st century. W.R. Clement is one of ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Operating in the Dark: The Accountability Crisis in Canada’s Health Care System

By Lisa Priest

With front-page stories of overcrowded hospital wards and polls showing that Canadians rank health care as the most important issue today, the time is right for a clear-eyed look at the system.In Operating In The ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics

By David Rayside

David Rayside is a gay activist who has been around long enough to see what works and what doesn’t. As a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, he has developed an academic ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

New Moon at Batoche: Reflections on the Urban Prairie

By George Melnyk

A valedictory quality pervades this collection of nine personal essays. In his preface, George Melnyk points out that New Moon at Batoche could be seen as the final chapter of his Western Canadian trilogy, one ... Read More »

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

How We Got Here, the 1970s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse)

By David Frum

Neo-conservative columnist David Frum announces his intentions at the outset of his latest book. Not only does he promise to provide a history of the 1970s, a decade that Frum feels is much maligned and ... Read More »

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

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