The 1990's Oka Crisis left a host of disturbing images in its wake: a soldier and Mohawk warrior nose to nose; a ...
By Margaret Goldik
Reviews
Humour in writing depends, to a large degree, on the element of surprise: a writer zapping you with an unexpected ...
By Ian McGillis
Robert Adams, former lecturer at Concordia University, is a popular literary critic who holds an enormously ...
By Margaret Goldik
If there is one book you should give your adolescent dauther this year, this is it. Subtitled, "Faces of Change ...
By Margaret Goldik
Peter Richardson, who is also given to formal neatness, opens The ABC of Belly Work with a poem about his ...
By Bert Almon
Ricardo Sternberg's poems offer pleasure. His forms are elegant: he loves three- and four-line stanza and even ...
By Bert Almon
Endre Farkas is also fascinated by the North. His Worshipful Company of Skinners, based on journals of ...
By Bert Almon
Carolyn Souaid's book is deeply involved with the Canadian North, specifically the Ungava coast, where she spent ...
By Bert Almon
In 2002 Mount Royal cemetery celebrated the 150th anniversary of its first burial; the following year Quebec ...
By Margaret Goldik
The headlines left me wondering how Rae Tucker Rambally would have reacted. A judge in Saskatchewan had given a ...
By Joan Eyolfson Cadham
In her absorbing family memoir, Elaine Kalman Naves explores the complex territory of the mother-daughter ...
By Elizabeth Johnston
"He shall hang though every dog in Quebec bark in his favour," says an eggplant- nosed John A. Macdonald in ...
By Philip Hawes