Somebody’s Daughter: Inside the Halifax-Toronto Pimping Ring

Beware the gritty social realist journalist who wants to take you There. There is generally a place you’d rather not be: a crack house, a prison, or a refugee camp. And it’s a rare writer ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision

By Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki Ross eds.

Canadian feminists are consistently boxed into two opposing corners when it comes to the pornography debate, a.k.a. The Sex Wars. In the first, devoted to smut, licentious behaviour, and the pursuit of pleasure, we have ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne

By David P. Silcox

Art historian David Silcox’s biography of painter David Milne (1882–1953) has finally arrived, more than two decades after the University of Toronto art historian took on the mammoth project. Painting Place is the first of ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Prescription for the Future: How the Technology Revolution Is Changing the Pulse of Global Health

By Gwendolyn B. Moore, David A. Rey, and John D. Rollins

In this era when for many of us restful sleep is often disturbed by nightmares of asteroids plowing into the earth in the near future, or by fears that the zit on our posterior is ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Healthy Incentives: Canadian Health Reform in an International Context

By William McArthur, Cynthia Ramsay and Michael Walker, eds.

In this era when for many of us restful sleep is often disturbed by nightmares of asteroids plowing into the earth in the near future, or by fears that the zit on our posterior is ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Design for the Future of Health Care

By Larry Bryan

In this era when for many of us restful sleep is often disturbed by nightmares of asteroids plowing into the earth in the near future, or by fears that the zit on our posterior is ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Armed and Dangerous: Fit, Firm and Ready to Fight

By Wendy Buckland and Barb Nicoll

Reading fitness/makeover/workout books is a lot like going to church or paying a visit to Grand & Toy. They are all experiences that draw their appeal from the illusion of human perfectibility. They exist to ... Read More »

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