Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd

What I was going to do was make a humorous approach to Pierre Berton’s purportedly funny Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd. What I had in mind was a piece poking ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Witch Hunt in the B.C. Woods

By A.B. Robinson

Retired B.C. government forest administrator A.B. (Tony) Robinson asserts tree huggers are wrong to conserve forests, forest bureaucrats are right to maximize harvest, and B.C.’s NDP government is dabbling in economic witchcraft in its efforts ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country

By Michael Riordon

Queers are everywhere. That’s the chant and the dogma, but I think secretly most of us believe that, if we queers are not already living in some urban gay ghetto, we’re saving up for the ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Contested Identities: The Struggle for Canadian Sport

By Bruce Kidd

In his third book, Contested Identities: The Struggle for Canadian Sport, former distance runner Bruce Kidd, who now directs the School of Physical and Health Education at the University of Toronto, argues that sports and ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Trent Frayne’s All Stars: An Anthology of Canada’s Best Sportswriting

By Trent Frayne, ed.

It has all the makings of a champion: an anthology of Canadian sports writing selected by a master. But Trent Frayne’s All Stars reads like a marketing department idea sabotaged by weak execution. It’s far ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Whale: Giant of the Ocean

By Eric S. Grace

The text is hardly worth a glance, but the pictures are pretty in this small coffee table book offering from Key Porter. The new whaling, like the new safari, is seeking to reclaim the bloodthirsty ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Diamond Dreams: 20 Years of Blue Jays Baseball

By Stephen Brunt

For those of us who have followed the Toronto Blue Jays from their cellar-dwelling expansion years through their back-to-back World Series wins and beyond, it’s sometimes hard to believe they have been with us for ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Cheat of Words

By Steve McCaffery

In canto IX of the Inferno, just after we have been titillated and terrified by the Furies, Dante turns to his reader and says: “O ye who have sane intellects for guide/Consider well the doctrines ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Nightwatch: New & Selected Poems 1968 – 1996

By Dennis Lee

It is impossible to calculate the contribution Dennis Lee’s long career as poet, theorist, editor, and children’s writer has made to Canadian literature. One of the epigrams to “Civil Elegies,” the epic lament that opens ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The League of Nathans

By Jason Sherman

Jason Sherman’s seriocomic The League of Nathans is an immensely entertaining play which, time and again, masterfully executes one of the great theatrical tricks: Sherman is an expert at allowing the prevailing comic tone of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Farewell to the Twentieth Century: A Compendium of the Absurd

Witch Hunt in the B.C. Woods

Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country

Contested Identities: The Struggle for Canadian Sport

Trent Frayne’s All Stars: An Anthology of Canada’s Best Sportswriting

Whale: Giant of the Ocean

Diamond Dreams: 20 Years of Blue Jays Baseball

The Cheat of Words

★ Nightwatch: New & Selected Poems 1968 – 1996

★ The League of Nathans

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