The Dusty Bookcase

Between Friends/Entre amis [Lorraine Monk, ed.] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976 276 pages Somewhat worse for wear, my copy of Betwee...

Tolerable Levels of Violence Robert G. Collins Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983 241 pages Four years ago, while driving home from a ...

... or maybe not

Yet another gloriously sunny September weekend, I spent most of it stacking firewood in preparation for winter. The high point came early Sa...

Son of a Meech: The Best Brian Mulroney Jokes Mark Breslin, ed. Toronto: Ballantine, 1991 113 pages News of Brian Mulroney's death last ...

Ten years ago today, American multinational Rail World brought hell to this country. It's thought that the corporation killed forty-seve...

P.E.T: Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his unearthly adventures Jude Waples New York: Avon, 1983 93 pages E.T. was the summer blockbuster of 198...

For the month,  the seventh of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. The second of two poems praising Wilfrid Laurier ...

What with everything going on in Ottawa these days, my focus on things political has shifted from Parliament Hill to the hot tubs and bouncy...