Robert Latimer: A Story of Justice and Mercy

Saskatchewan wheat farmer Robert Latimer, the man at the centre of Canada’s most contentious euthanasia trial, is given an extremely sympathetic treatment in this new study. A passionate advocate for more permissive end-of-life legislation, author ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Eddie Shore and That Old-Time Hockey

By C. Michael Hiam

For hockey fans who consider the game of yore to have been less prone to cheap shots and hooliganism and more gentlemanly than today’s version, C. Michael Hiam’s new biography of Saskatchewan-born bruiser Eddie Shore ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Crawling from the Wreckage

By Gwynne Dyer

Gwynne Dyer is the author of books with titles like Future: Tense and The Mess They Made, so it comes as a surprise to open his new volume and read that, in 2010, the author’s ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: History

Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction

By Ray Moynihan and Barbara Mintzes

“It is to be hoped that human sexual inadequacy … will be rendered obsolete in the next decade.” This lofty expectation, from the introduction to Masters and Johnson’s 1970 book Human Sexual Inadequacy, reveals both ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

How the Scots Invented Canada

By Ken McGoogan

Since the 1700s, the Scots have had a profound influence worldwide, as American author Arthur Herman emphatically argued in his 2001 book, How the Scots Invented the Modern World. So why do we need another ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: History

Letters to Omar

By Rachel Wyatt

Rachel Wyatt is the author of six novels, a handful of stage plays, and over 100 radio plays. A great many of her works have been anthologized. Her writing has even earned her a place ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Young in Their Country

By Richard Cumyn

Richard Cumyn is a writer who doesn’t like to be boxed in. The stories collected here resist pigeonholing: they are narrated by young and old voices belonging to men and women, Jews, Muslims, and old-money ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ 3 Chefs: The Kitchen Men

By Michael Bonacini, Massimo Capra, and Jason Parsons

The authors of 3 Chefs are all highly regarded toques. Michael Bonacini co-owns a slew of Toronto-area restaurants, including the top-rated Canoe and the family-friendly Oliver & Bonacini chain. Massimo Capra, owner of Mistura and ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink