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Erin Winzer

Erin Winzer has written 124 posts for Defining Canada

Detroit 3: Dead Men Walking

Lemon-Aid author and former NDP MP Consumer Critic, Phil Edmonston, calls the Detroit 3 corporate welfare bums unworthy of government aid. Instead of a $25 billion bailout, Edmonston says Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors need the ‘tough love’ of bankruptcy and a buyout.
When federal Finance Minister Flaherty refused to bail out Canada’s financial institutions earlier [...]

John Moss – a literary kin of Robertson Davies

Still Waters, the newest addition to Dundurn’s Castle Street mystery line, by noted academic John Moss has been receiving great reviews from mystery critics since its publication last month. The witty verbal sparing between Still Waters’ detective duo David Morgan and Miranda Quin are reminding the critics of Reginald Hill’s Dalziel and Pascoe and Hammett’s Thin Man [...]

Lest We Forget

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row …”
I don’t know the pain of losing a father, mother, brother, sister, son or daughter to war.
I don’t know what it’s like to fight in the trenches for a few feet of muddy terrain.
I don’t know what it’s like to see your comrade [...]

A Q&A with Sally Cooper

Tell us about your book:
Tell Everything is about what happens to Pauline when she must testify against her former friend, Ramona, on trial for the murder of her husband and suspected of helping him molest young women.
Where did you get the idea to write Tell Everything?
The novel grew out of living on my own [...]

Happy Halloween

“He did the mash
He did the  monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash …”
Yes it’s that time of year again! Halloween! A day of thrills, chills, tricks, and treats. We at Dundurn got into the Halloween spirit by dressing up for the day and having a costume competition. Here are some Dundurn ghouls.
And the winners [...]

Word on the Street

My favourite season, without a doubt, is fall. Not only do I get to break out my comfy sweaters, but I get to indulge my book buying addiction with the arrival of new Fall books (I’ve already made a list of must-haves) and Word on the Street, which occurs this Sunday, September 28 in Toronto, Vancouver, [...]

Terror Threat Author Talks About the First “Toronto 18″ Verdict

Just over two years ago, in a series of dramatic police raids in Toronto and the surrounding areas, which shocked many Torontonians, police arrested 18 men suspected of conspiring to bomb several Canadian targets including Parliament Hill, RCMP headquarters CBC buildings in downtown Toronto, and nuclear power plants. Today, the first of the 11 suspected [...]