Books in Canada

| | |

Author: Mel Hurtig

Jul 2001

	Homelessness The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis by Jack Layton Penguin/McGuill Institute 246 pages $19.99 paper ISBN: 0140288880		Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement by Janet Poppendieck Viking 354 pages $13.95 paper ISBN: 0670880205		The War at Home An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor by Pat Capponi Viking 255 pages $32 cloth ISBN: 0670882445
	Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids: The Tragedy and Disgrace of Poverty in Canada by Mel Hurtig M&S 357 pages $34.99 cloth ISBN: 0771042132		On Assistance to the Poor translated with a commentary by Alice Tobriner by Juan Luis Vives University of Toronto Press 62 pages $12.95 paper ISBN: 0802082890

Picture yourself poor
by Andrew Gray
For a long time there was a piece of graffiti on the wall of a 7-11 store in Toronto's Kensington Market that read CHARITY IS NOT JUSTICE. In very different ways, these five books about poverty help to illustrate why this anonymous slogan's is accurate. Anyone who follows the news has experienced some fatigue when it comes to the the subject of povertyùan inability to register more images of long lines at food banks or further reports of bed shortages at homeless shelters. Read more...

Mar 2003

The Vanishing Country
by Mel Hurtig
McClelland & Stewart
433 pages $37 cloth
ISBN: 0771042159

The Sell-Off Continues
by Pat Barclay
Wake up, Canada; if Mel Hurtig is right, they're selling our country out from under us! How ironic that the last two lines of our national anthem are: "O Canada, we stand on guard for thee." Because, if ever there were a nation that fell asleep when it should have been on guard duty, it's this one. Superlatively beautiful and richly endowed, Canada has always attracted rapacious eyes from south of the border. Read more...

footer

Home First Novel Award Past Winners Subscription Back Issues Timescroll Advertizing Rates
Amazon.ca/Books in Canada Bestsellers List Books in Issue Books in Department About Us