Bedside Manners: George Clooney and ER

Last January, the executives at NBC took a deep breath and bought themselves the most popular show on television for the astonishing sum of $13-million an episode. But when they locked up the hospital drama ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Why We Love the Dogs We Do: How to Find a Dog That Matches Your Personality

By Stanley Coren

Many people do not realize that the breed of dog they select can play an important role in the success of the relationship. Stanley Coren, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

As If Kids Mattered

By Marlene Webber

In earlier days, in a simpler world, Dr. Spock was enough. Parents without resident grannies could look up chickenpox and colic, and no one bothered about self-esteem analysis and attention-deficit disorder medication. As societal norms ... Read More »

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

I’ll Be the Parent, You Be the Kid

By Paul Kropp

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

Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Crime Story

By Michael Harris

Journalist Michael Harris’s investigation of the crisis in Canada’s Atlantic fishery is a keen indictment of government bureaucracy, bunglings, and hidebound ideas. It’s also extremely timely with the just released report of the Committee on ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: History

Touched by Fire: Doctors Without Borders in the Rwandan Genocide

By Elliott Leyton, Greg Locke, photog.

There is an intersection in this book of the macabre and the ecstasy of moral clarity. The backdrop is the Rwandan genocide, the heroes are the altruistic humanitarian aid workers. The victims and killers have ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Legends of Our Times: Native Cowboy Life

By Leslie Tepper and Morgan Baillargeon

I played cowboys and Indians as a child growing up in the Six Nations of the Grand River community in the 1960s. Few of my friends wanted to be the cowboy: “There are no Indian ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney

By Michael Dawson

The Mountie is a bizarre and paradoxical figure in the Canadian imagination. On one hand there is the picture-postcard image of a fearless red-suited horseman, steadfastly loyal and lantern-jawed, who always gets his man. And ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: History

Oddball@large

By Bill Richardson

Oddball@large is a collection of “used journalism” by Bill Richardson, B.C. broadcaster and columnist for the Vancouver Sun and The Georgia Straight. His Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

MCSE Study Guide: Windows 95 & Networking Essentials

By Lieigh Ann Chisholm, et al NewRiders

Microsoft Corporation: love it, hate it, or make it the focus of paranoid persecution fantasies, but there is simply no escaping it. In the business software market especially, Microsoft has no credible competitors in several ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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