April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Author, columnist, and ex-Anglican priest Tom Harpur has long positioned himself as the champion of a personal and deeply psychological brand of spirituality that stands in direct opposition to the narrow, literalist teachings of mainstream ... Read More »
Phil Esposito’s got stories – he’s got a million of ’em. You don’t play 18 years in the National Hockey League, score 717 goals, win two Stanley Cups, play in the 1972 Summit Series between ... Read More »
April 3, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Even before Harding hit Kerrigan, thousands of Canadians were glued to sets and frozen to bleachers, watching Stojko, Chouinard, and Philippe Candeloro, above, spinning around the ice all over the world. And given the relatively ... Read More »
March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
When Pope John Paul II released his encyclical Vertitatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) in the fall of 1993, it gave members of the Roman Catholic Church much to ponder. It states that certain acts, ... Read More »
March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
Calgary Herald sportswriter Bruce Dowbiggin’s last foray into hockey books was Of Ice and Men, a look at how a handful of hockey greats have mastered their craft. But they say that craftspeople are only ... Read More »
March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
In his third book, Contested Identities: The Struggle for Canadian Sport, former distance runner Bruce Kidd, who now directs the School of Physical and Health Education at the University of Toronto, argues that sports and ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
For those of us who have followed the Toronto Blue Jays from their cellar-dwelling expansion years through their back-to-back World Series wins and beyond, it’s sometimes hard to believe they have been with us for ... Read More »
March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
As the National Hockey League expands to cities that once seemed no less exotic than Timbuktu, many Canadians have adopted a weepy nostalgia for what the Hanson brothers (in the 1977 movie Slap Shot) described ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Central to the theme of Ontario-based theologian Brian C. Stiller’s fifth book are two well-known biblical events: Babel and Pentecost. In From the Tower of Babel to Parliament Hill: How to Be a Christian in ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
The tomato is, by all accounts, Canadian gardeners’ favourite vegetable. In this readable and useful new addition to the Firefly Gardener’s Guide series, veteran garden writer Jennifer Bennett ably proves her point that it’s also ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help