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Entry Level is a graceful and thought-provoking sequence of stories with a flair for the comedy of the workplace. Each story is intense in its own way, McIsaac explores the costs of being female, often in the workforce. A group of women telemarketers deal with the escalating absurdity of management's rules and restrictions, a seasonal-help cashier in a bustling toy store encounters hostile co-workers, perverted customers and fake fifties, and ...

Women are expected to embrace the beautiful gift of becoming a mommy. Giving birth, nourishing our young-these things are the fulfillment of a life's ambition. You'll be spoken of in the same breath as patriotism and apple pie. There you'll be: on a pedestal, admired, happy. All you have to do is be a good mommy. Alas, that is a lie. That creature: a figment of our imaginations. The truth is, you will fail. The truth is, we all fail. Bad Mommy...

Following on the heels of the first edition, Breaking Out II expands its coverage by including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (i.e., transsexual and cross-dressing persons), and intersex (LGBTI) individuals. While some societies have become more tolerant and accepting of sexual and gender diversity, LGBTI people continue to suffer psychological damage caused by growing up in largely heterosexist, homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic mili...

In the glamorous world of advertising, image is everything as intrepid lesbian PI Calli Barnow finds out when she goes undercover at a top Toronto agency. Following a twisted money trail, she stumbles across the body of a hot young copywriter, dead of a drug overdose at his desk. Just another casualty of the Bay Street rat race? Calli doesn't think so, and when she follows her intuition, trouble usually follows her. Oranges and Lemons is the s...

With new and updated information and an additional chapter Canadians live by the rule of law. In theory, we are all equally governed by the law and we all have equal access to our justice system, but in practice, says Toronto lawyer Michael Cochrane, we don't know enough about our legal rights and obligations. We fear the court system because of its slowness and its cost. And we put off or muddle through important things like Wills and contrac...

Stability is the key to success. Invest wisely now, retire comfortably later. When is the best time to invest for my retirement, and how? This is a question that astute investors should be asking themselves. This book offers simple guidelines on how to harness the techniques used by larger pension plans and make them work for your individual needs. The key to successful investing is to structure your portfolio to achieve the maximum possible r...

A gay wedding gone bad. A missing groom. An unsullied reputation at risk. Enter Russell Quant, cute, gay and a rooky private detective. With a nose for good wine and bad lies, Russell Quant is off to France on his first big case. From the smudgy streets of Paris, he cajoles and sleuths his way -- surprise, surprise -- to the pastel-coloured promenade of Sanary-sur-Mer. Back in Saskatoon, Russell comes face to face with a client who may be the ...

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Confined to a psychiatric hospital following the murder of her young daughter, Emma Bratte refuses to speak any language but her mother tongue. Dr MacLeod has brought in an interpreter, Flore, to help him evaluate Emma's fitness to stand trial. 'Both crazy and too lucid', an articulate and knowledgeable Emma relates her long battle against despair, through striking images of her lonely but determined and creative struggle to win the love of a ...

Sweeping changes have hit the financial services industry at the same time as more and more Canadians are turning to professionals to invest their money. Consumers want to work with qualified professionals, but are often left to work with narrow, product-based sales representatives. John J De Goey argues that financial advisers need to change the way they do business. Instead of earning commissions for placing products, they need to begin char...

Taking the form of an artist's journal, Good's tales grind through dark, often violent places animated by voices warped by hallucination and flesh chafed by reality. From the ramblings of an opium-riddled adventurer to treatises on life from a mind rattled by the world, from the tragic end of a teen queen to a day in the life of a rock star, from the execution of the Self by the Other to the pull between rules and freedom, this is a landscape ...

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In Shell, Olive Senior continues her ongoing investigation of the natural world, the nature of poetry and the power of her Caribbean heritage. She is our guide through realms of miniature elegance, those of shells in their abundant manifestations. With her grace, generosity and world-renowned lyricism, Senior gives us hen's eggs as hymns, molluscs as metaphors, shells of all kinds -- sometimes fragile, sometimes unyielding -- as home, as womb,...

Where do you find Canada's best fish and chips? Which is the best bar to play in Thunder Bay? Why should you bring cash on the ferry to and from Newfoundland? How do you find cheap motel rooms at the last minute in any town in Canada? Based on his years of traveling with the indie band, United Steel Workers of Montreal, Gern F Vlchek has written a comprehensive guide to successful touring for any independent Canadian band. Here he shares all t...

rob mclennan's second collection of literary essays, this is another display of his vast range of reading contemporary writing. Following his previous collection, subverting the lyric: essays (ECW Press, 2008), mclennan navigates the confessional aspect of Lynn Crosbie's Liar and the lyric of the American prose poem, the shapes of Camille Martin's sonnets and Jay MillAr's insect hopes, as well as the pastorals of Lisa Robertson and his own Gle...

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In these stories young singer-songwriters strive for fame and identity in the indie music scene. A young woman's creative process is plagued with pop cultural dissonance during a European soul-search, a first year university student has an existential crisis and eats the flowers that have started to appear on her doorstep, a call centre employee whose name newly yields a Google search hit is frustrated with his unimpressed co-workers, and one ...

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