Book Review: Thoroughly researched, though sometimes dryly expressed, a new biography by Hamilton-based writer James King paints a picture of a complex, often contradictory artist and man.
Book Review:The Ward Uncovered uses the ordinary objects left behind in a diverse immigrant neighbourhood in Toronto to reconstruct the lives of its residents and to allow their voices to be heard.
Fiction Feature: Lynn Johnston is one of the world’s best-known cartoonists. This story is based on facts, but it’s a fictional version of how we imagine Canada’s most famous comic strip might have got its start.
Author disentangles the interplay of economics and emotions, objectives and needs, the differing and sometimes clashing notions of personal duty, morality, and rights underlying the “conversation” that is taxation.