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The Newsroom

The Newsroom, for those who spent the last TV season reading books or in solitary confinement, was a CBC series almost revolutionary in execution. Besides being both cynical and urbane, historically a no-no at the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Butterflies of Canada

By Ross A. Layberry, Peter W. Hall & J. Donald Lafontaine

The Butterflies of Canada is a valuable collaboration by knowledgeable authors. Ross A. Layberry provided a database of over 90,000 records on butterfly distribution; Peter W. Hall and J. Donald Lafontaine are both scientists with ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Southam Canadian Mutual Fund Guide 1998

By S. Kelly Rodgers, ed.

Mutual funds have become the last, best hope for getting rich. With more than 1,000 mutual funds for sale in Canada, the investor’s problem is finding the tiny minority of funds that combine strong, dependable ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Mr. Doyle & Dr. Bell: A Victorian Mystery

By Howard Engel

Get out your pipe and magnifying glass, because veteran writer Howard Engel’s Mr. Doyle & Dr. Bell provides mystery buffs with more to ponder than your average whodunit. This carefully constructed mystery surrounds the case of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seeing Tomorrow: Weighing Financial Risk in Everyday Life

By Ron S. Dembo and Andrew Freeman

This is a rare work of serious statistics made accessible to general readers who want to know the interrelationship of risk (quantifiable chance or outcomes), and uncertainty (what is unknown and unquantifiable). Authors Dembo, a ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Forgetting Room

By Nick Bantock

Summoned to Ronda, Spain, after inheriting his grandfather’s house, Armon Hurt is drawn into a surreal and mysterious treasure hunt, carefully laid out by his grandfather. In a room where forgetting is remembering, the real ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barney’s Version

By Mordecai Richler

The Barney of Barney’s Version, Mordecai Richler’s 10th novel, learned to tap dance as a boy, a talent that comes in handy when he decides to write his memoirs and finds himself tap dancing – ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

No More Teachers, No More Books: The Commercialization of Canada’s Schools

By Heather-jane Robertson

While the Council of Canadians’ Maude Barlow has been off attacking the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, her Class Warfare co-author Heather-jane Robertson has attempted to defend us from the same threat on the home front. ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Journey Prize Anthology 9

By Selected with Nino Ricci

The ninth annual pack of stories, chosen by editors of Canadian literary magazines as the year’s best, does precisely what a Journey Prize Anthology claims to do: it lauds the role journals play in the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Conduct Unbecoming: The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy

By Howard Margolian

Howard Margolian is well placed to reconstruct the sordid murders of Canadian POWs in the days immediately following D-Day – he has been working in the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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The Newsroom

The Butterflies of Canada

Southam Canadian Mutual Fund Guide 1998

Mr. Doyle & Dr. Bell: A Victorian Mystery

Seeing Tomorrow: Weighing Financial Risk in Everyday Life

The Forgetting Room

Barney’s Version

No More Teachers, No More Books: The Commercialization of Canada’s Schools

The Journey Prize Anthology 9

Conduct Unbecoming: The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy

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