December 2008

Canada’s Homeless Portrait Gallery

A historic collection falls victim to economic and intellectual uncertainty

Canada’s Black Chamber

An account of early Canadian code breaking is mostly accurate but very dry

Delicious Canadian Ham

Two show-off actors strut their stuff in new books

Does Technology Make Us Do It?

Two very different views of ethics in the modern age

Witty and Wise

A great Canadian journalist leaves a lasting legacy

A Different North

The Russian Arctic sees extraordinary changes over half a century

Compromised Eden

Documenting one of the most isolated and dangerous places on earth

Rocks and Hard Places

Newfoundland, Alberta and the dark night of the soul

Singing the European Blues

A Czech-Canadian author brings a major career to a close

A Storyteller's Story

An academic examines the life and times of Canada’smost successful popular historian

Creating a Canadian Pantheon

John Ralston Saul attempts to delineate the nationalcharacter by spotlighting individuals

A True Canadian Hero

Not all the great settlers of the West were men.

After the Apology

A passionate journalist asks where do we go from here?

Darkness Then a Blown Kiss

Beneath Cyrillic Stars

“Bloor & Eyeless Ave.”

Downtown Love

A poem