April 15, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment
“Project your voice without fear or favor,” John Colapinto writes in his new book, This Is the Voice. “Be aware of its full, fantastic range of expression, and revel in it.” This exploration of our ... Read More »
Trying to determine a through line of broad historical periods is at best a fraught endeavour. But if there is a single driving idea of the 20th and 21st centuries, it might well be simply ... Read More »
October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment
“Today everyone who values cities is disturbed by automobiles,” wrote Jane Jacobs in her 1961 classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities. “At present public transportation languishes, but not from a lack of ... Read More »
June 18, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment
Following her award-winning 2013 book about cougars, Paula Wild returns with an extraordinary look at another badly misunderstood animal. In Return of the Wolf: Conflict & Coexistence, the Courtenay, B.C., author delivers a riveting exploration ... Read More »
December 6, 2018 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror novel, Frankenstein. In the two centuries since its appearance, the book has taken on the mantle of a cultural ... Read More »
June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
For all the wealth they potentially possess, Alberta’s vast petroleum reserves have proved a mixed blessing at best. Even the industry’s staunchest defenders have to concede that the laborious extraction of oil from sand has ... Read More »
October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment
For all the wealth they potentially possess, Alberta’s vast petroleum reserves have proved a mixed blessing at best. Even the industry’s staunchest defenders have to concede that the laborious extraction of oil from sand has ... Read More »
October 2, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment
“To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.” So says the eponymous vivisector in H.G. Wells’s 1896 ... Read More »
September 6, 2017 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
When the wheels of justice grind slowly, the process can seem interminable and destructive. This is especially true in cases where justice is being miscarried. By the time Tammy Marquardt had been exonerated in the ... Read More »
February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment
Montreal-based author Mary Soderstrom has set herself a giant task in Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move – one that begins with the first anatomically modern humans leaving Africa 50,000 to ... Read More »
February 8, 2017 | Filed under: History, Science, Technology & Environment