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Abstract This paper argues that middle-class ideals of childhood framed both living and dead children in the emotional community of interwar spiritualists in southwestern Ontario. It argues that spiritualists' grief over the death of a child helped to compel them to séances where they met, named, interacted with, and touched their child. In doing so, spiritualists contested common understandings of the body's end with death, as "spirit children" continued to grow, learn, and develop in embodied ways in the afterlife. Spiritualists re-storied their dead children's lives as perfect modern children and shared these stories and practices with living children (relatives and siblings), who were important members of this emotional community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Describes the experiences of New York-based gay man who traveled to Toronto, Ontario to deliver a paper at the Modern Language Association convention in December 1997. Sociocultural significance of a gay man's exchange with a panhandler on a Manhattan sidewalk in fall of 1996; Discomfiture experienced by the gay man during his encounter with a hustler in Toronto; Transnational imaginary.

Examines the issues of ownership and distribution of randon in the two provinces of Canada, Manitoba and Ontario. Information on radium emanations; Analysis of computerized database which reveals information about patients and the uses of randon in the 1930s; Significance of radiotherapy for treating cancer.

Provides information on the annual meeting held by the Society for the History of Technology at the Delta Chelsea Hotel in Toronto, Ontario from October 17-20 2002. Highlights of the meeting; Sessions featured; Range of topics discussed.

Presents the text of a speech given by Daryl M. Hafter, president of the Society for the History of Technology in 2001-2002, on October 19, 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, which deals with technological innovations.

Focuses on the concept of job rotation in the organizational development of an academic library. Review of related literature on the interest in job rotations within university libraries; Advantages and disadvantages of job rotation programs; Discussion on the restructuring of the academic library in Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario.

Focuses on civic theaters and the urban development of downtowns in Toronto, Ontario. Impact of the St. Lawrence Centre construction on theater production; Connotations of civic theaters varying at different historical moments; Contribution of civic theaters and cultural institutions on the consideration of civic as a social and urban ideal.

Features the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Ontario. Range of the museum's collection of shoes and shoe-related artifacts; Profile of Sonja Bata, the museum's originator and wife of multinational shoe manufacturer Thomas J. Bata; Design of the building by architect Raymond Moriyama; Description of the permanent exhibition `All About Shoes'; Interactive CD-ROM audiovisual display.

The article compares gay and lesbian rights issue between Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Ontario. Over the years, in response to continuing input from nongovernmental organizations and governments, United Nations human rights instruments have been refined and expanded, and a number of special declarations on the rights of particular minorities-children, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, women, and others-have been developed. To date, however, there is no international covenant that affords specified protection for the minority rights of gay men and lesbians. Human rights principles are international, moral guidelines that are prior to law, representing the global standards to which the laws and public policies of all countries should conform. However, the laws and policies of governments do not always incorporate human rights principles: laws may be modeled on human rights guidelines, but laws may also violate human rights principles. In Australia, protections for general human rights were in the past provided by the common law. In Canada, pressure groups began to lobby for anti-discrimination legislation after World War II and, in the latter part of the 1940s, the provinces of Ontario and Saskatchewan passed the first human rights-oriented statutes.

Presents the author's account of his experience in incorporating the teaching of theatre in a cultural studies program. Specifics of the cultural studies program at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

Reports that regional associations of election officers from around the globe met in Ottawa, Canada, for the first Global Electoral Organization Network Conference, on April 11-14, 1999. Major goals of the conference; Sponsors of the conference.