Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, the Better, and the Best Canadian Novels Since 1984

T.F. Rigelhof has been a critic and enthusiast of Canadian literature for decades, long enough to pine for the days when Montreal’s The Double Hook bookstore (which closed in 2005) was a hub for a ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Canadian Century: Moving out of America’s Shadow

By Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens, and Niels Veldhuis

The Canadian Century is tantamount to a manifesto for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a policy think tank for which lead author Brian Lee Crowley serves as managing director. It is a political tract that, at points, ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Restitution: A Family’s Fight for Their Heritage Lost in the Holocaust

By Kathy Kacer

With her first book for adults, prolific children’s author Kathy Kacer has chosen a very compelling story. Restitution is about Karl Reeser, a member of a prominent Jewish family who had to flee Czechoslovakia in ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History

Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them

By Laurence Packer

No matter what you eat, how you dress, or where you live, your life would change for the worse if a few key insects disappeared. Although there are only a handful of pollinators among the ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23–May 5, 1945

By Mark Zuehlke

Academic military historians tend to write for other military historians, and the history of the Canadian army in the Second World War is no exception. Historians have proffered their theses on the subject without addressing ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History

Marshall McLuhan

By Douglas Coupland

Only Douglas Coupland could have written Marshall McLuhan. In his contribution to Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians biography series, Coupland challenges the grandiose nationalistic poise of the series, and indeed the very nature of biography itself. Employing ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Locavore: From Farmers’ Fields to Rooftop Gardens – How Canadians Are Changing the Way We Eat

By Sarah Elton

It’s nearly impossible to go to a fashionable restaurant in Canada and not encounter the local food movement. Menus these days are loaded with adjectives specifying the geographic origin or pedigree of the foods on ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Food & Drink

No Moon

By Irene N. Watts

Three young women make their difficult ways through three historical periods in a trio of new middle-grade novels. Though the settings and situations vary, all three novels show that the figure of Anne Shirley casts ... Read More »

August 30, 2010