★ The Hidden Room: Collected Poems/Volumes One and Two

Every few years an important and essential book emerges reminding us of the rich and impressive legacy of our best senior poets. I think of Milton Acorn’s Dig Up My Heart, Irving Layton’s A Wild ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

National Dreams: Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

By Daniel Francis

If there is a thin thread that connects these two books it is the railroad. And that’s what tied Canada together soon after Confederation; Maritime entry was induced by the promise of the Inter-Colonial Railway, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Pig That Flew: The Battle to Privatize Canadian National

By Harry Bruce

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

Fury: Inside the Life of Théoren Fleury

By Andrew Malcolm

When the Calgary Flames drafted Théoren Fleury in the eighth round of the National Hockey League’s 1987 entry draft, some scouts laughed out loud. Despite the impressive number of goals, assists, and penalty minutes he ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Fitzgerald’s Storm: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

By Joseph MacInnis

Joseph MacInnis was the first man to dive under the North Pole and one of the first to dive to the Titanic. The latter escapade produced the best-selling Titanic: In a New Light. In Fitzgerald’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ Legends of Autumn: The Glory Years of Canadian Football

By Denny Boyd and Brian Scrivener

As a typical red-blooded Canadian male who first became aware of professional sports in the late 1970s, I have always been puzzled by the perennial debate over whether or not the Canadian Football League is ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Crimes and Mercies

By James Bacque

Most reasonable people consider the Second World War to be the last morally unambiguous conflict. Nazis were the bad guys, the Allies were the good guys. Good triumphed over evil, right?Toronto writer James Bacque would ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Somalia Cover-up: A Commissioner’s Journal

By Peter Desbarats

Peter Desbarats, a former journalism dean at the University of Western Ontario, was one of the commissioners on the ill-fated Somalia inquiry. Following the amputated commission’s final report, Desbarats produced his own account, Somalia Cover-up: ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Illustrated History of the Jewish People

By Nicholas de Lange, ed.

The history of the Jewish people stretches from before recorded time to our century, when everything is recorded. Nobody documented the slaughters that must have taken place when a bunch of disaffected slaves from Egypt ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

And God Created the French

By Louis-Bernard Robitaille

This collection of very fine vignettes by Louis-Bernard Robitaille, Paris correspondent for the Montreal newspaper La Presse, captures much of what makes contemporary France so fascinating and so maddening. After 30 years of living in ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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