Original Six: True Stories from Hockey’s Classic Era

As the National Hockey League expands to cities that once seemed no less exotic than Timbuktu, many Canadians have adopted a weepy nostalgia for what the Hanson brothers (in the 1977 movie Slap Shot) described ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Murder at the Movies

By A.E. Eddenden

Inspector Albert V. Tretheway stands out from the growing crowd of made-in-Canada mystery series sleuths. At 6'5" and 290-plus pounds, the 39-year-old transplanted Brit is too big to miss, for one thing. But it’s a ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beaming Sonny Home

By Cathie Pelletier

New Englanders, I’ve found in living among them, are not the most garrulous breed of American. And as one native-born woman informed me recently, speech is considered downright ostentatious in the state of Maine.How, then, ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Broken Windows

By Patricia Nolan

When I think of successful literary portrayals of devastated lives, I think of Raymond Carver, Dorothy Allison, Greg Hollingshead. After reading Broken Windows, I will also think of Kanata, Ontario writer Patricia Nolan.Broken Windows is ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Object of Your Love

By Dorothy Speak

Ottawa writer Dorothy Speak was born in Seaforth on Lake Huron. This is her second collection of stories. Perhaps it’s just a dangerous presumption we are inclined to make about provincial towns, since they’ve produced ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Sexual Healing

By Carlo de Paoli

Over the past few decades, an increasing public awareness and interest in alternative therapies has surfaced, partly due to a growing dissatisfaction with mainstream medicine, as well as a general desire to take personal responsibility ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment