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A literary criticism of the book "Waste Heritage," by Irene Baird is presented. It outlines how the book depicted significant chapters in Canadian labour history, including the failure of the modern industrial capitalilst democracy and local class conflicts. An overview on the main storyline of the book is also provided.

This essay focuses on the book "When Alice Lay Down with Peter" by Margaret Sweatman. The book focuses on a pair of Scottish settlers and their descendants in the Canadian West and is preoccupied with the fraudulence of their presence, using ghosts to raise postcolonial questions about claims to the land. The book illustrates Sweatman's belief that ghosts, as reminders of change, of mortality, of the hazards of political fanaticism, are allies of people in a struggle against a political and historiographical absolutism that has only deepened repressed rather than resolved.

Discusses the metaphors that come to mind when thinking of multiculturalism in North America. Literary criticism; Information on the radio program `Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour'; Examination of the novel `Green Grass, Running Water,' by Thomas King; Debates about multiculturalism and the politics of interpretation.

Examines the use of italics in Timothy Findley's novels. Findley's contribution to the development of postmodern textual strategies characteristics of Canadian fiction; Appropriateness of calling Findley a postmodernist; Contribution of italics to the misgivings of his readers; Significant of italics in Findley's works.