Book News CanadaBook News and ReviewsThe Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read- January 24, 2007 Dan Solin, author of the best selling book, The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read -Canadian Edition, is encouraging Canada's mutual fund industry to offer investors new index funds at lower fees. As he points out in his book, U.S. investors can purchase low cost index funds with expense ratios as low as 10 basis points - 0.10%, while similar funds in Canada carry management expense ratios (called MERs) ranging from 0.54% to 2.94%. Solin advises Canadian investors to bypass...http://www.booknews.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19 New Children's Book Award Announced in BC- January 23, 2007 Keith Mitchell, Chair of the BC Achievement Foundation has announced a new award for children's literature. It is entitled Time to Read: The BC Achievement Foundation Award for Early Literacy. Time to Read will recognize a Canadian children's book appropriate for five-year-olds; the author and illustrator of the chosen book will each receive $7,500. The award is supported by a four-year funding commitment from the BC Ministry of Education. Each year, the selected book will be...http://www.booknews.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18 Author Potshots His Way Onto The Internet- January 19, 2007 Boy Lafayette De Mente, internationally known for his 60-plus pioneer business, cultural-insight, and language books on China, Japan, Korea and Mexico, has jumped onto the blog bandwagon with sites that offer a variety of articles, essays and book reviews. Articles on his blog - Potshots - include: How American Males are Being Turned into Girly Men; How American Women are Becoming More Like Men; How Sexual Repression Leads to Violence and Male Prostate Problems; and Changing the Culture of...http://www.booknews.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17 Canadian Cancer Survivor Releases Soul Gifts - Book to Help Heal the World- January 19, 2007 Soul Gifts: The Worlds Self-Help Book, and its companion Soul Rubbing Exercises: A Personal Vision Quest, has been globally released by Canadian author Barbara J. Gill, RN. The book grew out of the authors own healing journey and includes points of view from over 75 contributors - men, women and children - on such subjects as sexuality, intimacy, religion, poverty, evil and war. Gill offers the reader complementary and alternative healing concepts and explains the importance of nature and...http://www.booknews.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16 Who Will be Canada's Next Literary Superstar The 3-Day Novel Contest- January 16, 2007 Step aside, Atwood! BookTelevision and Indigo-Chapters reveal Canada's next literary superstar as The 3-Day Novel Contest: The Series, an exciting eight-part reality series, airs Sundays at 9:30pm ET, starting February 4th. Twelve writers sit down in the middle of Edmonton's biggest Chapters bookstore - cameras and customers following their every keystroke - to try to write a novel in just three days. Eating, sleeping, and living in the bookstore, the would-be novelists face diabolically...http://www.booknews.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15 Top Ten Tips For Making A Successful Wedding Toast- January 6, 2007 Have you ever been to a wedding where someone made a really inappropriate toast Or droned on way too long Or maybe they were horribly drunk and came off as obnoxious Here's how you can avoid those mistakes and save yourself from years of embarassment:http://www.booknews.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14 Concordia University New Home To Rare Hockey Book- January 3, 2007 On Thursday, January 4, 2007, Concordia University will become the new home to Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game, a rare book on Canadian hockey, thanks to the generosity of Brian Malone. Malone will officially donate the book to Concordia's Centre for Canadian Irish Studies. The book was recently restored by Library and Archives Canada at the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who himself is writing a history of hockey in Canada and was respectful of the book's historical...http://www.booknews.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13 Canadian Government Supports Three Newfoundland and Labrador Publishers- January 2, 2007 On behalf of the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, the Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Member of Parliament (St. John's South-Mount Pearl), today announced $229,072 in funding for three Newfoundland and Labrador publishers. This support will enable them to expand their promotional activities and reach new markets, as well as increase their financial viability. "Our Government is pleased to support the efforts made.http://www.booknews.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12 |