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This article discusses the novel "Strange Heaven," by Lynn Coady. The novel, suggestive of the increasing and subversive self-consciousness of the Atlantic-Canadian literature, is about a Cape Breton teenager who has undergone psychiatric therapy after giving up her baby for adoption. The novel builds on the conflicts arising from the social mores of a small town. The author concludes that Coady explores such complexities with a dark and combative humor just like any East Coast writers.

This article discusses the book "The Last Crossing," by Guy Vanderhaeghe and the violent encounters with the preexisting hierarchies of power that took shape through the unfolding of untidy, unopportunistic interferences with the other regimes of power. Through all of this the author discusses how the need for separation of genders and races are all the things that directly created the need for masculinity. Thus creating such a deep distinction and segregation between gender races that continues even into todays society. The start of this idea was traced back to the Western days and the idea that the only way to stop it is to do honourable things that will pit individual concepts of the right course of action against social codes, conduct, race and gender.

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.

This article points out that the financial crisis a result of decades of neoliberalism and that this could substantially affect the future of Canadian literature. It is observed that whether or not the neoliberalist ideology will continue to prevail will affect Canadian literature. It is argued that it will affect what will be taught and researched. It will also affect Canadian literature's social, political and economic aspects. It will also influence how and where it will be taught.