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A Nation Worth Ranting About

In the latest issue of the recently reanimated magazine The Baffler, Steve Almond takes aim at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for, among other things, being “parasites of the dysfunction they mock” and “remaining careful ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Reference

America, but Better: The Canada Party Manifesto

By Chris Cannon and Brian Calvert

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Reference

Comics Versus Art

By Bart Beaty

In the not-so-distant past, the humble comic book found itself elevated to its own distinct category in bookstores: the graphic novel. However, as University of Calgary professor Bart Beaty points out, this distinction privileges the ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Juan de Fuca’s Strait: Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams

By Barry Gough

Much has been written about the discovery of the Northwest Passage, especially the explorers who travelled Canada’s North, often with brutal consequences. Less well known are the men who sought a path from the Atlantic ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: History

Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk

By Sam Sutherland

In the introduction to Sam Sutherland’s Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk, the author eruditely sets out the far-reaching effects of the first wave of punk in Canada, and – in appropriately irreverent fashion ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Walls: Travels Along the Barricades

By Marcello Di Cintio

Ursula K. Le Guin begins her seminal novel The Dispossessed with a characteristically simple yet profound observation about a wall: “Like all walls it was ambiguous and two-faced. What was inside it and what was ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Goal of My Life

By Paul Henderson with Roger Lajoie

If you’re under the age of 45, chances are you’ve heard of the Canada–Soviet Union Summit Series only in the hushed tones reserved for great and important events. Paul Henderson, a hard-working kid from Lucknow, ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Coach: The Pat Burns Story

By Rosie DiManno

One thing cops and hockey players have in common is they’re not big on showing emotion. If you’re gonna fight criminals or win the Stanley Cup, you have to be tough. Same goes for hockey ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Toploader

By Ed O’Loughlin

Toploader is an occasionally funny but ultimately flawed satire of American imperialism written very much in the spirit of Carl Hiaasen. What it takes from Hiaasen is the elaborate comic contraption of a plot driven ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Braco

By Lesleyanne Ryan

Covering five days following the fall of Srebrenica in 1995, Lesleyanne Ryan’s debut novel provides a potent – and extremely graphic – look at ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war. Ryan tells the story via ... Read More »