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The article focuses on author Katherena Vermette on her perspectives about violence against women and her perseverance to achieve hope on equality for women. It stresses the influence of Vermette in the creation of complexity and promotion of social issues experienced by women in Canada through her literary works. It also highlights the success of her published book "The Break," featuring life and struggles of Indigenous women.

The author explores the subjects of Canadian novels. She states that official politics has never been a prevalent theme in Canadian fiction and that political figures are occasionally the focus of fiction. She claims that a lot of contemporary Canadian novels focus on the middle class. She also mentions some novels that explore class and labor conflicts, including Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" and John Bemrose's "The Island Walkers."

This article looks at travel and tourism in Nova Scotia. The article recommends visiting the Alexander Graham Bell Museum, Louisburg, an restored eighteenth-century French fortress, Annapolis Royal, and Kejimkujik National Park. The article discusses Francophone Acadian culture in the Pubnicos and the difficulties in traveling to Nova Scotia.

The article focuses on the culture of Canada as it is depicted in several books, including "The Hockey Sweater," by Roch Carrier and "The Thumb in the Box," by Ken Roberts. The author presents his views on the origin of Canadian humorous writing. A discussion of jokes about Newfoundlanders, or "Newfies," is also included in the article.

Focuses in Icelandic-Canadian literature and minority writing in Canada. Influence of multiculturalism on Canadian literature; Dynamics underlying minority writing and minority literary criticism in Canada; Original idea behind the settlement of New Iceland.

The past may be a foreign country for most of us, the place where they do things differently, but it's a writer's natural home, the source of memory, meaning and--above all--stories. Much of the last decade's best Canadian fiction, from Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" to Wayne Johnston's "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams," has burrowed deep into history, personal and political, national and global. In "Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen," theatre critic Kate Taylor, born in France and raised in Ottawa, creates a moving meditation on Parisian and Toronto history. But nothing plays with history like Michel Basilires' stunning debut novel "Black Bird," a wildly inventive and darkly funny take on the October Crisis.

The article reports on the views of Canadian professor of English Nick Mount regarding the growth of Canadian literature beginning in the 1960s. It discusses the number of new Canadian authors and publishers, and the conditions that allowed the increase in leisure time to read and economic support of literature.

The article offers brief profiles of small publishers and presses in Canada. Companies listed include Coach House Books, Arsenal Pulp Press, Biblioasis, Insomniac Press, and Anvil Press. Topics discussed include acceptance of unsolicited manuscripts, publishing for Canadian authors, and book design.

The article presents information on Canadian crime writing. Crime writer David Skene-Melvin believes that Canadian crime writing is "more subtle, more psychological, more caring" than in the U.S. He says that Canadian crime writing in particular and Canadian literature in general, suffered from a serious problem: the slighting of Canadian authors.

Canada is a dangerous place in the collective memory of Turin. Stylized Mohawk warriors loom menacingly over the front windows of the northern Italian city's 300-year-old Palazzo Carignano. Formed in solid brick, they represent the vivid recollections of Turinese soldiers who fought in New France's 17th-century Iroquois wars. Plus ça change. For the 50-odd Canadian writers, publishers, public servants and journalists who went to Italy in mid-May to see Canada honoured at Turin's annual international book fair. Every year for the past decade, a local committee in the Italian town of Castel Goffredo has picked a country, named five of its books and rounded up 135 copies of each. Then the citizens start reading; at summer's end they award the Acerbi prize. But nothing beats Ottawa's seed money, which has been astonishingly successful for a modest cost. About $50,000 a year has fostered a network of Canadian studies departments at seven Italian universities. There are now dozens of academics interested in the country, according to University of Milan professor Luigi Bruti Liberati.Over the past decade Canadian literature has been celebrated and welcomed with open arms around the world.

Focuses on Canadians considered as the best writers of fiction in English. Themes tackled; Writer Robertson Davies' reason for calling Canada a 'nation of losers'; Themes tackled by Davies, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood, Brian Moore and Mordechai Richler; Comparison between Canadians and Americans; Famous novels of the authors.

Focuses on the landscape scenes of Canada from Canadian literature. Information on the city of St. Lawrence; Reference to `Allo Police'; Description of the atmosphere felt in the city.

The article discusses the periodical "Grain: The Journal of Eclectic Writing," a publication of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild. The journal is said to focus on Canadian writing and to include artwork. The article mentions authors published in the journal, who include Jonathan Ball, Zsuzsi Gartner, and Xi Chuan. Advice for contributors to the journal is offered.

Reports that EBSCO Canada has formed the Canadian Literary Centre. Combination of the contents of three literary reference series with book reviews, essays, works of literary criticism, author biographies, and current periodical articles; Author information which is available on the database; Use of the reference series 'The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors,' 'Canadian Writers and Their Works,' and the 'Canadian Fiction Series.'

Offers the author's opinion of the arts and culture in Canada. How Canadians love summer festivals, where they give culture attention; Ideas that more winter festivals would give them culture in the non-summer months; The formality of dressing for the theater or symphony; Lack of serious arts in the summer; Idea that Canadian literature and Canada's film industry are dull; How Canadians do not know what culture is available to them year-round.