The Breaking Point: Understanding Your Potential for Violence

High-profile cases of murder, rape, and pedophilia have focused Canadians’ attention on the issue of violence, but are the people who commit these crimes really that different from the rest of us? In The Breaking ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy

By Irshad Manji

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to have your cake and eating it, too. In fact, it’s darn healthy. But there is something coy about saying, “Thanks, but no thanks,” and then wolfing down a whole ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

At Home on the Stroll: My Twenty Years as a Prostitute in Canada

By Alexandra Highcrest

“I’m conservative and I’m old fashioned,” says Alexandra Highcrest, male-to-female transsexual and former prostitute, in a recent interview with Quill & Quire. It’s true, and this conservatism is both the strength and the weakness of ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Vodka, Tears and Lenin’s Angel: My Adventures in the Wild and Woolly Former Soviet Union

By Jennifer Gould

Immediately following the collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union, newspapers and television news overflowed with the “firsts” of Russian capitalism – the well-stocked outdoor markets, McDonald’s restaurants, a “free” press, outstanding jazz, the ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: History

Virtual Power: Using Your Pc to Realize the Life of Your Dreams

By Mark Bunting, Mark Seal

“In this age of unprecedented information flow, people are haunted by the belief that they are actually ignorant. The stock excuse is that this is because there is literally too much to be known.” – ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Design for Dying

By Timothy Leary

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives

By Michael Dertouzos

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

At Large: The Strange Case of the World’s Biggest Internet Invasion

By David C. Freedman and Charles C. Mann

Once upon a time, hackers were hackers and crackers were crackers, and everyone who counted knew the difference. The earliest hackers were members of an electric train club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who would ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment