Reviews
Canadian Author Wonders What Harper is Reading
Brandon Sun, July 3, 2010: Review of the book What Is Stephen Harper Reading? by Yann Martel.
Authors Offer Food for Thought
Brandon Sun, April 24, 2010: Review of the books An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan.
Prime Minister Barack Obama?
Brandon Sun, August 22, 2009: Reflections on the book Open And Shut: Why America has Barack Obama and Canada has Stephen Harper.
Six
Words To Describe A Life?
Brandon Sun, July 25, 2009: Can just six words sum
up a life? The book Not Quite
What I Was Planning.
Role of Religion in War and Peace
Brandon Sun, May 30, 2009: Reflections on religion, war,
Brandon's Labyrinth of Peace, and Madeleine Albright's book The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs.
Lessons
in Success
Brandon Sun, May 2, 2009: Why are some people much
more
successful than others? Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers: The
Story of Success.
We Can Forge a New Drug Policy
Brandon Sun, April 4, 2009: Reflections on the war in Afghanistan, the War on Drugs, and A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada by John Ralston Saul.
Remembering Nellie McClung
Brandon Sun, March 7, 2009: The legendary Canadian feminist leader is the subject of the new biography Nellie McClung.
Drug, Alcohol Policies Reveal Our Hypocrisy
Brandon Sun, January 10, 2009:
Reflections on the futility of the "War on Drugs" and the book A History of the World in Six Glasses.
Be
Prepared: Will, Health Care Directive (Living Will), Obituary, and More
Brandon Sun, December 13, 2008: Among the
resources, a new book about health care directives, Living Will, Living Well.
Learning
to Step Lightly Brandon Sun, November 15,
2008: A new
book by Manitoba author Mark Burch invites us to consider
living more simply. Stepping
Lightly: Simplicity for People and the Planet.
Tours,
Book Bring Cemetery to Life Brandon Sun,
June 14, 2008: Three great resources bring to life the
stories buried in our local cemeteries. The theatre presentation Gossip in the
Graveyard, the walking tour What Lies
Beneath, and the book Every Stone a
Story: Manitoba's Buried History.
Wiki
Is The Way Of The Future Brandon Sun, May 3, 2008:
Wikinomics:
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.
Ordinary
Lives, Extraordinary Stories Brandon Sun,
September 29, 2007: The book Obit: Inspiring
Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives.
All
Those Little
Things Can Really Add Up These Days – To Cash
Brandon Sun, March 15, 2007: The Long
Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More.
What’s
Up With Grand Theft Auto? Brandon Sun, August 18,
2005: A controversy about the rating of one of the Grand Theft
Auto video games.