The World of Gord

I've always been curious about the issues that face native peoples in Canada so was happy to pick up a copy of Peace Pipe Dreams: The ...

Some people might wonder why I read a children's book, The Twelve Days of Christmas in Canada . When I saw Teena reading it , I had ...

Back in the sixties, I was a big CFL fan, Hamilton Tiger Cat fan, and a huge fan of #68, Hamilton defensive lineman Angelo Mosca. When I f...

A few weeks ago, Teena read Good Mourning and wrote a review on it, saying it was a good interesting book to read. It sounded interestin...

I still remember watching Clara Hughes in the Women's 5,000km event at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, pumping her legs around the...

I read mostly non-fiction books but very few about business. Research in Motion, now known as Blackberry, has been a fascinating stock to ...

A while ago I read the book Wheat Belly , a groundbreaking book that promotes the fact that wheat is bad for you. Renowned cardiologist,...

I was at the library this week and saw The Age of Earthquakes on the feature shelf. It's a small pocketbook size and is very strangel...

Until I saw the book, Tsunami: The Newfoundland Tidal Wave Disaster , I had never heard of this disaster. Weeks after the stock market cra...

I was/am lucky enough to be born during the time of the great space race to the moon between Russia and the United States. Each mission wa...

I don't read a lot of fiction but when I read Traitors Blade , the first book of a new Greatcoat's series, I knew I was hooked. ...

Until recently I had never heard of the true story of how an American bomber with a live nuclear weapon aboard became lost over Canada. Am...

I like beer and enjoy reading books about Canadian history, so when I discovered there was a book about the history of beer in Ontario, On...

When Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield was on his third and last mission in space aboard the the International Space Station (ISS) from D...

Up until recently I had never heard of the tragedy that happened up in the Yukon, when four members of the North West Mounted Police went ...

A few months ago I bought Beerology by Beer Cicerone, Mirella Amato . Although I didn't read it cover to cover when I got it, I have ...

I am a big fan of the cooking contest show, Top Chef , and this year the finale took place in San Miguel de Allende . On the show, the cit...

In 1995, Quebec citizens went to the polls to vote on whether the province should succeed from Canada. The question that Quebecers had to ...

As much as I love beer, I also have a fondness for wine, although usually whites more than reds. Rieslings and Gewurztraminers are my favo...

Ever since I passed the Old Dominion Brewery Building on Queen Street E, discovered that Todmorden Mills was once also a brewery, and tha...