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The War to End All Wars

Eliezer Pinsky, the protagonist of Morley Torgov’s new novel, The War to End All Wars, doesn’t figure to be long for the world when we first meet him. A Russian Jew, he’s a reluctant First ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Queen Rat: New and Selected Poems

By Lynn Crosbie

This selection, it is really more of a collection, is the very opposite of the proverbial slim volume of poems. From the five non-angels in “Pentangeli” to the ultimate grace of “Pearl,” this work demands ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Fireworks and Folly: How We Killed Minnie Sutherland

By John Nihmey

Minnie Sutherland was a Cree from Kashechewan, a reserve on the Ontario side of James Bay. She died in an Ottawa hospital on Jan. 11, 1989, at age 40, after being hit by a car ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Smart Women: Canadian Entrepreneurs Talk About Making Money, Leadership, Management, and Self-development

By Barbara Thrasher and Madelon Smid

Although women entrepreneurs are establishing businesses at record levels and are primarily responsible for the proliferation of small business today, they continue to be dogged by the disparity between men’s and women’s incomes. Why? According ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Of Ice and Men Dominik Hasek, Chris Chelios, Steve Yzerman, Glen Sather: The Craft of Hockey

By Bruce Dowbiggin

Is the game of hockey a brutish survival of the toughest, or a well-orchestrated work of art on ice? In Of Ice and Men, Bruce Dowbiggin argues convincingly for the latter point of view.By focusing ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Scotty Bowman: A Life in Hockey

By Douglas Hunter

As the NHL’s reigning game tactician, Scotty Bowman has a legendary reputation. He is the leader in coaching victories and has navigated eight teams (in three different cities) to Stanley Cup wins – which ties ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

On a Personal Note

By Rita MacNeil with Anne Simpson

On grade 2 talent day, I stood before the class in kilt and Anne Shirley puffed sleeves to sing “My Favourite Things,” which I’d memorized off a scratchy Sound of Music album. I remembered all ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music

By Liona Boyd

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Art and Life of Betty Goodwin

By Matthew Teitelbaum, Jessica Bradley, eds.

The catalogue for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s retrospective of Betty Goodwin is a solid document of 50 years of work. There are colour plates galore of the Montreal artist’s striking images, like her Swimmer ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Archive for Our Times: The Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay

By Dean J. Irvine, ed.

This volume of poems – previously uncollected and unpublished – by modernist writer Dorothy Livesay is an invaluable addition to the poet’s oeuvre. Editor Dean Irvine has produced a work that will satisfy scholar and ... Read More »