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Operating in the Dark: The Accountability Crisis in Canada’s Health Care System

With front-page stories of overcrowded hospital wards and polls showing that Canadians rank health care as the most important issue today, the time is right for a clear-eyed look at the system.In Operating In The ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics

By David Rayside

David Rayside is a gay activist who has been around long enough to see what works and what doesn’t. As a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, he has developed an academic ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Slumming It at the Rodeo: The Cultural Roots of Canada’s Right-Wing Revolution

By Gordon Laird

Anyone who’s been left shocked, angry, or surprised by the rise of Canada’s neo-conservatives over the last decade or so will find much to cheer in Slumming It at the Rodeo: The Cultural Roots of ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Essential Trudeau: Pierre Elliott Trudeau

By Ron Graham, ed.

The Selected Writings of Brian Mulroney. The Philosophy of John Diefenbaker. The unlikeliness of such books throws into relief how unusual Pierre Trudeau was among Canadian prime ministers. In addition to governing the country for ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family

By Janice Kulyk Keefer

In 1936, Olena Solowska left the grinding poverty of her village in eastern Poland (now western Ukraine), with her two daughters, Natalia and Vira, aged 14 and nine. Her husband, Tomasz, had left several years ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out

By Rosemary Sullivan

Red Shoes is a “not-biography.” Although Rosemary Sullivan has been lauded for sensitive work about Elizabeth Smart and Gwendolyn MacEwen, this time she wanted a writer not defined by the “tragic female artist” template. Because ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Margaret Atwood: A Biography

By Nathalie Cooke

Writing the first biography of a major living author is a daunting task that imposes severe restrictions even on the boldest biographers. Nathalie Cooke, an academic and Atwood scholar, bypasses the family dynamics that are ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Featured Archive Review, Memoir & Biography

Beauty Queens: A Playful History

By Candace Savage

Candace Savage’s Beauty Queens: A Playful History follows up on her earlier successes of chronicling the politics of female culture. She has written on similar topics in Bird Brains and Cowgirls. Beauty Queens is book ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Handwriting

By Michael Ondaatje

You are 20, a male tree-planter working the cleaving mountains west of Spatsizi in northern B.C. Mid-summer blackflies. You ache for the brown and blonding women on the crew: the ankle bracelets below calf muscles, ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Marrying the Sea

By Janice Kulyk Keefer

In this impressive collection of new poems, Janice Kulyk Keefer explores the fragility and power of human relationships. Her intelligence is evident in finely crafted lyrics that celebrate a daughter’s deep affection for her parents; ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

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Operating in the Dark: The Accountability Crisis in Canada’s Health Care System

On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics

Slumming It at the Rodeo: The Cultural Roots of Canada’s Right-Wing Revolution

The Essential Trudeau: Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family

The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out

Margaret Atwood: A Biography

Beauty Queens: A Playful History

★ Handwriting

Marrying the Sea

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