CHAPTER 1 - Description
Lesley Choyce, Thin Edge of the Wedge
- www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/choyce/
Offers a brief biography of Lesley Choyce along with several of his poems as well as his writing philosophy.
- www.pottersfieldpress.com/authors/choycel.html
Here you will find a list of Choyce's publications as well as a link to the publishing company he helps run.
- www.writersunion.ca/c/choyce.htm
This site gives the Writers Union of Canada biography of Choyce along with a list of selected publications.
Tomson Highway, What a Certain Visionary Once Said
- www.playwrightsworkshop.org/tomsonbio.html
Here you will find biographical information about Tomson Highway, including a list of his publications, awards and a link to an interview with the author.
- http://tv.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/bio1996/highway.htm
This biography of Tomson Highway comes from the CBC program "Life and Times"
- www.imperialoil.com/thisis/publications/review/mycanada.htm
This site contains an essay by Tomson Highway entitled "My Canada".
Dave Bidini, Kris King Looks Terrible
- www.davebidini.com/
Here you will find a biography of Dave Bidini as well as excerpts from a number of his works. This site also contains information about Dave Bidini's band the Rheostatics.
- www.drog.com/rheostatics/start.html
The Rheostatics, Bidini's band.
- www.scottmurray.com/SMhockey.html
See pictures of the SkyRink as described in the excerpt from "Kris King Looks Terrible".
Ray Guy, When Jannies Visited
- www.avalon.nf.ca/rcadln/deadline.htm
Read some of Ray Guy's newspaper articles at this site.
- www.algonet.se/~bernadot/christmas/16.html
Read about the tradition of mummering in Newfoundland.
CHAPTER 2 - Narration
Alan Abel, A Home at the End of the Journey
- www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizen/look/look-20e.html
This site features the questions that appear on the immigrations test.
- www.macleans.ca
Abel's article first appeared in Maclean's magazine.
Steven Heighton, Elegy in Stone
- www.randomhouse.ca/newface/heighton.html
Random House Canada's profile of Steven Heighton.
- www.mcdermidagency.com/heighton.htm
A profile of Heighton from his agent.
- www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww1mem/vimy
Veterans Affairs Canada site with information and pictures of Vimy Ridge.
Evelyn Lau, I Sing the Song of My Condo
- www.nwpassages.com/bios/lau.asp
This site provides a biography of Evelyn Lau, as well as a list of books published by Northwest Passages.
- www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/lau.html
A January Magazine interview with Lau.
- www.coolwomen.org/coolwomen/cwsite.nsf/vwFrames/HomePage?OpenDocument
In-depth Biography of Evelyn Lau.
Brian Lewis, Teeth
- www.gov.nt.ca
Home page for the Government of the Northwest Territories.
- http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/
The Arctic Circle Home Page
Alison Wearing, Last Snowstorm
- www.globebooks.com/interviews/alisonwearing.html
A Globe and Mail interview with Alison Wearing.
- www.colage.org/kids/newsletter.html#tales
"Tales from a Multifunctional Family" by Alison Wearing.
CHAPTER 3 - Example
Lynn Coady, Genius of Madness?
- www.barcelonareview.com/19/e_lc.htm
The Barcelona Review has a short story by Coady and a short biography.
- www.globebooks.com/interviews/lynncoady.html
A Globe and Mail article about Coady.
- www.nwpassages.com/Profile_book.asp?ISBN=0864922302
Read a profile of Lynn Coady's Strange Heaven at this site.
- www.writersunion.ca/c/coady_l.htm
This site offers the Canadian Writers Union profile of Lynn Coady.
Sharon Butala, The Myth: The Prairies Are Flat
- www.writersunion.ca/b/butala.htm
A biography and bibliography of Sharon Butala.
- www.banffcentre.ca/press/contributors/abc/butala_s/
A biography of Butala from the Banff Centre.
- www.shared-vision.com/old_site/y00m06/storya01.html
An interview with Sharon Butala from Shared Vision magazine.
Cecil Foster, Why Blacks Get Mad
- www.pathcom.com/~cfoster/weekly.htm
This is a site designed by Cecil Foster's son Michello.
- www.canoe.ca/JamBooksReviewsS/sleepon_foster.html
This site gives a book review of Foster's novel Sleep On Beloved.
- www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/cnd.html
This site gives a number of links to anti-racist websites throughout Canada.
- www.naacp.org/
Visit the official website for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.
Mark Kingwell, Not Available in Stores
- http://www.thelavinagency.com/canada/markkingwell.html
Here you will find a profile of Mark Kingwell.
- www.adbusters.org/magazine/20/kingwell.html
Read an article by Mark Kingwell for AdbustersMagazine.
- www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/MKingwell.html?f=/stories/20001004/418431.html
This site has an interview /book review of Mark Kingwell conducted by…. himself.
- www.scar.utoronto.ca/acad/bios/data/kingwell.html
University of Toronto website for Professor Mark Kingwell.
CHAPTER 4 - Process Analysis
Paul Quarrington, Home Brew
- www.quarrington.org/
This is an excellent site with extensive information about Quarrinton.
- www.us.imdb.com/Name?Quarrington,+Paul
The Internet Movie Database Ltd. has a filmography and biography for Paul Quarrington.
- www.realbeer.com
This extensive beer site includes the following sections: brew tour, breweries, links, brew 'zines, burp me, notes, events, patrons, games, brew travels, authors, and retail.
Malcom Gladwell, Is the Belgian Coca-Cola Hysteria the Real Thing?
- www.gladwell.com
Gladwell's site contains details about his book The Tipping Point, an archive of his New Yorker articles, and biographical information.
- www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=author&authorID=392&view=interview
An interesting interview with Gladwell.
- www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-03-29.htm
Interview with Malcolm Gladwell in The Atlantic.
- www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/jan-june00/gladwell_5-22.html
PBS interview with Malcolm Gladwell.
Stanley Coren, Dogs and Monsters
- www.stanleycoren.com/
Stanley Coren's official web site.
- www.spca.bc.ca/animalsense/Spring2001/dogSenseSpring2001.htm
Read an article by Stanley Coren in Animal Sense Magazine.
Maureen Littlejohn, You Are a Contract Painkiller
- www.nursespdr.com/members/database/ndrhtml/acetylsalicylicacid.html
This site contains information from the Nurse's PDR Handbook on ASA.
Joe Fiorito, Breakfast in Bed
- www.signature-editions.com/xbjf.htm
Brief Bio of Fiorito along with links to excerpts from his books.
- www.ryerson.ca/rrj/content/print/2001/summer/mcphee.html
Interview with Joe Fiorito.
- www.epicurious.com/run/fooddictionary/browse?entry_id=9702
Epicurious dictionary: popover.
CHAPTER 5 - Division/Classification
David Foot, Boomers Dance to a New Beat
- www.canspeak.com/speakers/footd.htm
Read Canspeak's biographical information of David Foot.
- http://www.thelavinagency.com/canada/davidfoot.html
Read the Lavin Agency's biography of David Foot.
- www.couch.ca/history/1992/Foot.html
Read a summary of one of David Foot's Lectures.
Amy Willard Cross, Life in the Stopwatch Lane
- www.chatelaine.com/article.jsp?cid=667181&bz=t
Read an article for Chatelaine Magazine written by Amy Willard Cross.
- www.globeandmail.ca
www.globeandmail.ca
The Globe and Mail is the source of this article.
Gwynne Dyer, Flagging Attention
- radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/millenn/dyerbio.html
A CBC biography of Gwynne Dyer.
- www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/
Flags of the World.
- aurora.icaap.org/archive/dyer.html
Read an Aurora Online interview with Gwynne Dyer.
- www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/skelton/dyer_bio-e.asp
Read the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs biography of Gwynne Dyer.
Susan Swan, Nine Ways of Looking at a Critic
- www.arts.yorku.ca/english/people/gradFaculty/swan.html
Read York University's biography of Susan Swan.
- www.thing.net/~jkc/wof/#susan
Read an interview with Susan Swan about her novel Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With.
CHAPTER 6 - Comparison/Contrast
Charlotte Gray, The Temple of Hygiene
- www.japaneselessons.com/culture/culture.mv?BedBath
Get a lesson in Japanese bath taking.
- www.japanesebathhouse.com/aboutus.html
Learn all about Japanese Baths from Japanese Bath House.com
Will Ferguson, The Sudbury Syndrome
- www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/ferguson.html
A January Magazine interview with Ferguson.
- www.globebooks.com/interviews/fergusonwill.html
A Globe and Mail interview with Will Ferguson.
- www.yorku.ca/ycom/profiles/past/aug98/current/dept/gprofile/gprofile3.htm
A profile of York University alumnus Will Ferguson.
Gloria Steinem, The Politics of Muscle
- www.greatwomen.org/profile.php?id=150
Find biographical information about Steinem at the National Women's Hall of Fame.
- www.femalemuscle.com
Lori Victoria Braun's musclezine focuses on athletic and powerful women.
- www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/ND95/gorney.html
Read an interview of Gloria Steinem by Cynthia Gorney in Mother Jones magazine
Michael McKinley, Opera Night in Canada
- www.douglas-mcintyre.com/book_details.asp?b=713
Douglas & McIntyre has descriptions of a selection of McKinley's books as well as a short biography.
- www.nsnews.com/issues99/w052499/opera.html
Read about how the opera Game Misconduc came to be in the North Shore News.
Evan Solomon, The Babar Factor
- www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/solomon.html
A January Magazine interview with Solomon.
- www.cbc.ca/programs/sites/hottype_bio.html
CBC profile of Solomon.
- www.speakers.ca/esolomon.html
Speakers' Spotlight profile of Solomon.
CHAPTER 7 - Definition
Drew Hayden Taylor, Pretty Like a White Boy: The Adventures of Blue-Eyed Ojibway
- www.canadiantheatre.com/t/taylord.html
A Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia profile of Taylor.
- www.operation-dialogue.com/lafontaine-baldwin/e/2001_article_gm_taylor.html
"Seeing Red Over Myths" an essay by Drew Hayden Taylor.
- http://www.ipl.org/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A185
Native American Authors Project: Drew Hayden Taylor
Wayson Choy, I'm a Banana and Proud of It
- www.cbc.ca/millennium/authors/choy.html
Wayson Choy writing on the Millenium.
- http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/contributors/abc/choy_w/
Banff Centre profile of Choy.
Michael Clugston, Twice Struck
- www.horsburgh.com/h_bolt.html
This site has some impressive photographs of lightning.
- www.lightningsafety.com/
Visit the National Lightning Safety Institute.
- http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
The World of Benjamin Franklin
Neil Bissoondath, Pieces of Sky
- www.cbc.ca/millennium/authors/bissoondath.html
Neil Bissoondath on the Millenium.
- www.schoolnet.ca/greatquestions/e/q2_intro.html
On the Great Canadian Questions site you'll find two essays by Bissoondath as well as a biography and bibliography.
CHAPTER 8 - Cause/Effect
Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies
- www.stephenking.com/
Visit Stephen King's official website.
- www.horrorking.com/
This site offers extensive biographical information on Stephen King.
- www.stephenkingnews.com/
Find updated information about Stephen King at this site.
Trina McQueen, Why We Crave Hot Stuff
- www.mbcnet.org/archives/etv/M/htmlM/mcqueentrin/mcqueentrin.htm
Biographical page on Trina McQueen.
- www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/personal/hof/mcquee_t.html
The Canadian Communications Foundation biography for Trina McQueen.
- www.journalism.ubc.ca/publications.html
Read a review of McQueen's book Journalism in the New Millennium.
Laura Robinson, Starving for the Gold
- www.competitor.com/
Competitor is an online, interactive sports magazine.
- www.sfwed.org/top.htm
"Something Fishy" eating disorder site provides extensive information on various eating disorders.
Kim Pittaway, Dead Wrong
- www.chatelaine.com
Pittaway's essay originally appeared in Chatelaine Magazine.
- http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/shows/grief/index.html
"Meditations on Grief" was broadcast on CBC's ideas in 1996.
Tony Leighton, The New Nature
- http://ibiblio.org/nppa/codeofethics.html
The National Press Photographers Association code of ehthics.
- www.salon.com/sept97/media/media970904.html
Read an essay on the ethics of photojournalism.
- http://kodak.com/
Visit the official Kodak site.
CHAPTER 9 - Argument/Persuasion
Jennifer Cowan, TV Me Alone
- www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.06/citytv.html
"The Sheer Force of Attitude," about Citytv and Moses Znaimer, is another of Cowan's articles from Wired.
- www.mtr.org/
Visit the Museum of Television and Radio.
Lawrence Solomon, Too Much Privacy Can Be Hazardous to the Person
- www.nextcity.com/main/town/4tolls.htm
Another article by Lawrence Solomon published in The Next City.
- www.nationalpost.com/financialpost/fpcomment/columnists/bio.html?c=lsolomon&byline='lawrence%20solomon'
Read articles by Lawrence Solomon in the National Post.
Judy Rebick, The Culture of Overwork
- www.rabble.ca/columnists.shtml
Rebick is a columnist at rabble.ca.
- www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/columns/rebick/
Read Rebick's columns.
- www.canspeak.com/speakers/rebick.htm
A profile of Rebick on the CanSpeak website.
- www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/03/01/white_collar_sweatshop/print.html
"The Age of Overwork" from Salon magazine.
David Suzuki, The Right Stuff
- www.davidsuzuki.org/
The David Suzuki Foundation home page.
- www.canoe.ca/JamBooksFeatures/suzuki_david.html
Read two newspaper articles about David Suzuki.
Michele Lemon, Understanding Does Not Always Lead to Tolerance
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Naheed Mustafa, My Body Is My Own Business
- www.alharamain.org/english/articles/whyiwearhijab.htm
Read an essay by a seventeen-year old Muslim girl who chooses to wear the hejab.
- www.urbanmozaik.com/2002.march.issue/mar02_fea_chador.html
Read Emily Monroy's article "The Chador: A Western Woman's Perspective".
- www.al-sunnah.com/principles.htm
This site gives detailed information about the principles of Islam.
CHAPTER 10 - Documented Essays
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Ecstasy of War
- www.ffrf.org/fttoday/april2000/ehrenreich.html
This site features an essay by Barbara Ehrenreich entitled "My Family Values Atheism".
Marilyn Dahl, The Role of the Media in Promoting Images of Disability
- www.protocol.gov.bc.ca/protocol/prgs/obc/1993/1993_MDahl.htm
Dahl was a 1993 recipient of the Order of British Columbia.
- www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/forum/e062/e062e.shtml
Read an article by Marylin Dahl for the Canadian government entitled "Under- Identification of Hearing Loss in the Canadian Federal Inmate Population".
CHAPTER 11 - The Stories
David Arnason, A Girl's Story
- www.umanitoba.ca/news_video/archive/arnason/
The David Arnason Roast and Toast.
Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape
- www.web.net/owtoad/
The Margaret Atwood Information site.
- www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/atwood.html
A January Magazine interview with Atwood.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake
- www.tcboyle.com/
The official site for T.C. Boyle.
John Brooke, The Finer Points of Apples
- www.signature-editions.com/xbjbr.htm
A biography of Brooke and information about his novel, The Voice of Aliette Nouvelle.
- www.mcclelland.com/jpa/home.html
Information about the Journey Prize, won by Brooke in 1989.
Katherine Govier, The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery
- www.govier.com/
The official site for Katherine Govier.
- www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/govier.html
A January Magazine interview with Govier.
Elizabeth Hay, Cézanne in a Soft Hat
- www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/ehay.html
A January Magazine interview with Hay.
- www.banffcentre.ca/press/contributors/ghi/hay_e/
A biography of Hay from the Banff Centre.
- www.counterpointpress.com/1582431671.html
An overview of Small Change.
Alistair Macleod, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun
- www.modestyarbor.com/macleod.html
An interview with Alistair Macleod.
- www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture/WritersFed/Writers/amacleod.html
The Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia has a biography of Macleod and and bibliography of his work.
- home.eol.ca/~jarovi/mac_intro.htm
An interview with Alistair Macleod.
Alice Munro, Boys and Girls
- www.tceplus.com/munro.htm
www.tceplus.com/munro.htm
The Canadian & World Encyclopedia entry for Munro.
- www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/01/specials/munro.html
The NY Times feature on Munro includes reviews of her works and links to interviews.
- www.ucalgary.ca/library/SpecColl/munrobioc.htm
A biocritical essay on Alice Munro.
- www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/goodwoman/munro.html
A Random House interview with Munro.
Carol Shields, Windows
- www.theatlantic.com/unbound/factfict/ff9901.htm
An Atlantic interview with Shields.
- www.oprf.com/Shields/
A biography of Shields.
- www.nwpassages.com/bios/shields.asp
Northwest Passages has a profile of Shields and a bibliography of her work.
- www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0997/shields/sstory.html
"Mirrors", a short story by Shields.
Timothy Taylor, Doves of Townsend
- www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/ttaylor.html
A January Magazine interview with Taylor.
- www.randomhouse.ca/newface/taylor.html
Random House Canada's profile of Taylor.
- www.randomhouse.ca/readmag/previous_issues/timothy_taylor.htm
An interview with Taylor from READ magazine.
