“This is a bad idea,” says Jane Harrison as she arrives in British Columbia to visit her mother. Janey had left the family farm in anger 16 years earlier, at 18, after becoming pregnant with ... Read More »
February 20, 2004
Eighteen-year-old Jens Friesen has plenty of drive. A football star and fundraising dynamo, he’s taken his prowess to work at a car lot where he plans to make a fortune and send it home to ... Read More »
February 20, 2004
Dramas in miniature, scripts for soothing a cranky baby, subversive vehicles of protest, found poems, challenges, invitations to dance and song – nursery rhymes are one of the great gifts of the language. In this ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Blood, semen, urine, and bruised bodies feature prominently in this collection of plays written between 1992 and 1995 by five women playwrights actively involved in the Canadian theatre scene. Although there is no mention of ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
James Chatto, Toronto Life’s gourmand-about-town for the past decade, has seen – and tasted – it all. His book is at once memoir and narrative history of the rise and rise of Toronto’s restaurant scene. ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
This anthology of 20 articles on the emergence of electronic commerce by 26 distinguished scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs extends an earlier work, The Digital Economy, and examines the meaning of doing business in the electronic ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies
The comic strip Dilbert once featured a character, Ratbert, who gets a job as a temp. Before starting the assignment, Ratbert naively reckons “as a temp I will finally get all of the respect and ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help
With the millennium around the corner, the pundits are beginning to publish like it’s 1999. We are soon to be awash in tomes proclaiming the arrival of the 21st century. W.R. Clement is one of ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
In his novel Justine Lawrence Durrell made the observation that “We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour and even thought.” Wade Davis, a Canadian anthropologist and Harvard-trained ethnobotanist, has lived his life ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
Hockey has defined Canadians for as long as there has been ice on the pond. It has unified the country under the Olympic flag, and, says Robinson, it “feeds young dreams and entertains in the ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
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