Taking Your Kids Online: How and When to Introduce Your Children to the Internet

Internet hype sends out the message that any child who isn’t Yahooing is doomed to servitude or social assistance. Taking Your Kids Online doesn’t go that far, but it does argue that “what your daughter ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture

By Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly, eds.

At first glance Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly’s new collection of essays, L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture, may seem an odd idea. Montgomery’s most famous creation, Anne Shirley (of Anne of Green Gables fame) may ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Always and After: A Memoir

By Ellen Stafford

“Don’t you have any happy memories?” Ellen Stafford is asked by a psychiatrist with whom she is discussing her marriage. Apparently she doesn’t, for her memoir is an unrelieved chronicle of woes. These include poverty, ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls

By Karen Dubinsky

After Oscar Wilde visited Niagara Falls in 1882, he declared the waterfall must be the second greatest disappointment in American married life. Like many good jokes, Wilde’s quip worked because he left the best part ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Bark, Skin and Cedar: Exploring the Canoe in Canadian Experience

By James Raffan

Too often, self-effacing Canadians are content to define ourselves only by what we are not: namely, American. Our country is so large and sparsely populated that we tend to focus on our differences – such ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Riska, Memories of a Dayak Girlhood

By Riska Orpa Sari, Linda Spalding, ed.

May 12Tom says the new chicks have Pasty Butt, a condition that requires cleaning. And since he squished his hand in between logs and the top of his index finger has gone black, it is ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Nuk Tessli: The Life of a Wilderness Dweller

By Chris Czajkowski

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Buffalo Jump: A Woman’s Travels

By Rita Moir

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hard Right Turn: The New Face of Neo-conservativism in Canada

By Brooke Jeffrey

In the straight-shooting, uncomplicated world of the neo-conservative, Brooke Jeffrey is the Other. She is a political science professor, a former federal bureaucrat, and a one-time Liberal candidate. Now she has written a book, assessing ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Civil Society in Question

By Jamie Swift

According to Jamie Swift, defining the term “civil society” is like trying to pin jelly to the wall. This particular jelly is as much in vogue these days as terms like stakeholder, collateral damage, and ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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