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Power and Peril: The Catholic Church at the Crossroads

By Michael W. Higgins and Douglas R. Letson

Vast in its coverage and thorough in its analysis, Power and Peril is an encyclopedic journey through a church unwilling to change in the face of great social upheaval. Michael W. Higgins, president of St. ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Canada Gold: Men & Women Hockey Champions

When the Canadian men’s hockey team beat the Americans in Salt Lake City, it ended a 50-year drought of Olympic hockey gold. This was big news in a country that prides itself as a hockey ... Read More »

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

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

★ Dispatches from the Sporting Life

By Mordecai Richler

The posthumous release of Mordecai Richler’s Dispatches from the Sporting Life, a collection of 20 essays on sports spanning more than 30 years, is like a collection of B sides from your favourite band – ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter

By Gabor Maté and Gordon Neufeld

In Hold On to Your Kids, Vancouver doctor and writer Gabor Maté and developmental psychologist Gordon Neufeld detail Neufeld’s theory of peer orientation. Using examples from his own life and from the children and families ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues

By Dave Bidini

Author and musician Dave Bidini is single-handedly creating his own genre of sports book: the North-American-sport-in-a-strange-land category. In his last book, Tropic of Hockey, Bidini looked at how Canada’s national pastime is played in unusual ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada

By Reginald W. Bibby

University of Lethbridge sociologist Reginald Bibby has been surveying Canadian religious habits and attitudes since 1975, earning him the nickname “Bad News Bibby” in some religious circles for his dire predictions about the future of ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Finding the Stillpoint: A Spiritual Response to Stress

By Tom Harpur

In Finding the Stillpoint, religious commentator Tom Harpur ostensibly tackles the subject of meditation and stress relief, but Harpur can’t resist mounting his favourite hobby horse: “the great need to make the foundation of faith ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Grace Under Fire: The State of Our Sweet and Savage Game

By Lawrence Scanlan

In Grace Under Fire, journalist and hockey lover Lawrence Scanlan attempts to reconcile the beauty and speed of hockey with its often casual – and occasionally brutal – violence. By poring over articles, books, studies, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Whose Puck Is It, Anyway?

By Ed Arnold

If there’s one thing that sets Canadian hands wringing, one thing about which we famously diplomatic Canadians are not allowed to remain neutral, it’s the state of hockey. In a reaction against the often toxic ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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Power and Peril: The Catholic Church at the Crossroads

Canada Gold: Men & Women Hockey Champions

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

★ Dispatches from the Sporting Life

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter

Baseballissimo: My Summer in the Italian Minor Leagues

Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada

Finding the Stillpoint: A Spiritual Response to Stress

Grace Under Fire: The State of Our Sweet and Savage Game

Whose Puck Is It, Anyway?

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