Outpost

Science fiction and fantasy still seem to many Canadians like a recent American import, an industry brought in by expatriate writers like Spider Robinson and William Gibson. In fact, our SF tradition goes all the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bre-x: The Inside Story

By Diane Francis

Judging by the secrecy and suppressed panic to launch books about the Bre-X gold debacle, one of the greatest frauds this century, publishers can’t have had an easy time being first out of the gate ... Read More »

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

The Bre-x Fraud

By Douglas Goold and Andrew Willis with The Globe and Mail team that broke the story

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

Hitler’s Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold and the Crusade for Justice

By Isabel Vincent

Even more than 50 years after the end of the Second World War, Jewish concentration camp victims cannot find justice, cannot get back their possessions. As Isabel Vincent explains in the first Canadian book on ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Year 2000 Software Problem: Quantifying the Costs and Assessing the Consequences

By Capers Jones

Doomsday is coming! Doomsday is coming!Sort of.Welcome to the Year 2000 Problem, also known in computer circles as Y2K, also known as the Millennium Bug, also known as the biggest single pain-in-the-butt that computer professionals ... Read More »

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

The Year 2000 Problem Solver: A Five Step Disaster Prevention Plan

By Bryce Ragland

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

The Year 2000 Computing Crisis: A Millennium Date Conversion Plan

By Jerome T. Murray and Marilyn Murray

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Computer Crisis 2000

By W. Michael Fletcher

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Frugal Luxuries: Simple Pleasures to Enhance Your Life and Comfort Your Soul

By Tracey McBride

In the 1960s and 70s, young, middle-class North Americans got the message loud and clear: follow your hearts, do whatever you want, drop out, be happy. The children of post-war boom years, they were well ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help