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E.con: How the Internet Undermines Democracy

Remember 1994? In those days, the Internet was still known as the information highway, and the media was filled with stories about how online technology would one day make the world’s accumulated knowledge available to ... Read More »

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

She Laughed All the Way to the Bank: Financial Empowerment for Canadian Women

By Cindy Skrukwa

I was at lunch recently with single female friends, mostly professionals, when someone joked about being afraid of ending up as a “bag lady.”My friend’s fear, though not entirely justified, reflects an insecurity I think ... Read More »

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Take Charge Now: A Woman’s Guide to Personal and Family Finance

By Patricia Lovett-Reid

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Financial Serenity: Successful Financial Planning and Investment for Women

By Lori M. Bamber

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996

By Al Purdy, selected and edited by Al Purdy and Sam Solecki

Al Purdy has published more than 30 volumes of poetry, won two GGs, and received the Order of Canada. For decades reviewers have discussed him, both as a Canadian cultural icon and as a literary ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Bull Is Not Killed

By Sarah Dearing

Some of the best love stories are set against the background of great events. Think of For Whom the Bell Tolls and The English Patient. Sarah Dearing, while not yet in the same league as ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In Peril on the Sea

By Donald Graves

Imagine yourself winning the Second World War. You’re “standing a watch” on the open bridge of a tiny ship that is heaving on the storm-ravaged North Atlantic. You’re cold, wet, exhausted, and responsible for protecting ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

Thunder and Lightning: A No-B.S. Hockey Memoir

By Phil Esposito with Peter Golenbock

Phil Esposito’s got stories – he’s got a million of ’em. You don’t play 18 years in the National Hockey League, score 717 goals, win two Stanley Cups, play in the 1972 Summit Series between ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Burying Ariel: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

By Gail Bowen

In her seventh appearance as Canada’s best-known amateur detective (and the recent focus of a couple of CTV movies) Joanne Kilbourn once again becomes embroiled in murder investigation. Her latest outing, in author Gail Bowen’s ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn: A Joe Barley Mystery

By Eric Wright

Eric Wright’s successful foray into autobiography with Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man left his many crime fiction fans fretting for another dose of his laid-back Toronto-based mysteries. Here Wright pulls another surprise ... Read More »

April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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E.con: How the Internet Undermines Democracy

She Laughed All the Way to the Bank: Financial Empowerment for Canadian Women

Take Charge Now: A Woman’s Guide to Personal and Family Finance

Financial Serenity: Successful Financial Planning and Investment for Women

★ Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996

The Bull Is Not Killed

In Peril on the Sea

Thunder and Lightning: A No-B.S. Hockey Memoir

Burying Ariel: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn: A Joe Barley Mystery

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