The Ontario Report, the semi-official law report published under the mandate of the Law Society Act, has finally gone digital after more than a hundred years in print. I was very excited about the online edition when I first received the news.
Today I had a chance to take my first look at the online edition. [...]

053803 Life at Fifteen
by Robert J. Gagnon
R J Gagnon Publishing; 336 pages; US $14.95 (Kindle eBook)
15 year-old Robert Gagnon needed to kick his drug and alcohol addiction. He decided that by robbing a bank, he would get the assistance he needed so badly. As a young offender, he thought he might have to stay [...]

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown and Company; 304 pages; 19.99 paperback
Events and trends sometimes appear to evolve and spread on their own. While most understand that certain diseases like seasonal flus can become epidemic because of the potency of the virus or the environment, not [...]

SuperFreakonomics
By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
HarperCollins; 288 pages; $36.99
In 2005 rogue economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner partnered to write Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Filled with interesting topics on teachers who cheat, self-serving realtors, and crack-selling boys living with their moms, it was a blockbuster, remaining [...]

A while ago I wrote a review of Amazon’s Kindle digital reader when it became available in Canada.
Amazon.com recently announced that its deluxe model Kindle DX will soon become available to gadget lovers in Canada.
Like its non-deluxe sibling, Kindle DX is based on the E-Ink display technology, which draws very little power. The other features [...]