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Hockey is not only Canada's national pastime but its enduring passion. In this collection of fourteen real-life stories, authors Andrew Caddell and Dave Stubbs explore the many different sides of the game. In "The Girl" you'll meet a young woman who helped pave the way for the stars of today's women's game, while in "The Gentleman" a spinster aunt's lifelong wish comes true when she meets Habs superstar Jean Béliveau. "The Rink" details the un...

An evocative post-apocalyptic vision of loss, love and redemption ...Last man on earth-I'm beginning to fantasize that. The last human survivor! Seems very unlikely, in a world inhabited by so many millions of people in so many cities, so many countries. But in this silence-who knows? Actually, I think it's the silence, and my deepening sense of isolation, that are encouraging me to think I may be alone, completely alone. -But how will I find ...

In this thought-provoking book, D. Paul Schafer makes the case that Canada possesses the potential to play a crucial role in the world. After taking stock of the country's history, geography, and two of its greatest assets-creativity and diversity-he sets his sights on the rapidly-changing global and Canadian landscape. Schafer contends that by applying a cultural and chronological approach to Canadian development and focusing attention on the...

In this exciting, thought-provoking new book, author Eric Weissman draws on personal experience, firsthand empirical research, and social theory to probe the causes and consequences of homelessness.Hundreds of thousands of North Americans are homeless according to government statistics, hundreds of thousands, even millions more are only precariously housed, one paycheck away from life on the streets. Homelessness is one of the most significant...

Recent history has witnessed what might be called a populist revolt, including the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote. These political moments re¿ect the alienation of large numbers of people, who feel left behind economically. How did we get here? And to what extent are Canadians "locked" into a given path? Award-winning academic Stephen McBride, whose expertise spans economics, policy, globalization, and labour studies, is an expan...

For nearly four decades, journalist Ernest Hillen travelled from coast to coast in his adopted country of Canada and throughout the wider world, crafting stories that were sometimes amusing, occasionally bleak, often poignant-and always memorable. A Memoir in Pieces gathers together some of his favourites. Here you will meet a Montreal-born mercenary soldier who declares "I like to fight. Once you've tasted blood, you want more." You'll sit do...

No, despite the title, this isn't a self-help book! But You Can't Be Serious does lay foundations of hope and help for a civilization that seems bent on losing its purpose. Ranging through disciplines as diverse as science, economics, philosophy, poetry and religion in inimitably informal and conversational fashion, You Can't Be Serious involves the reader in shaping a take on the future that offers fresh coherence, meaning and delight. "Lots ...

¿L.M. Montgomery began writing Rilla of Ingleside shortly after the end of World War I. Her story of the war was not about soldiers fighting and dying on Flanders Fields, but about Canadians struggling to "keep the home fires burning." It is a novel that today remains at once both deeply moving and, on occasion, very funny.As she wrote the novel over a period of two years, Montgomery accumulated 518 handwritten pages. Alongside this stack was ...

Recommended for anyone who has ever paused to consider the brutalising effects of some of our sealed-door 'caring' worlds." -Paul Sayer, Nursing Standard "In the tradition of Studs Terkel." -Andrew Rutherford, Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Decency "Dr. Glouberman has done us a good turn in making us look at the contemporary version of the Inferno." -Times Literary Supplement "Powerful … a strong re-indictment of our outmoded methods of l...

Grief-stricken in the wake of her daughter's death, Selma embarks on a trip to the small Caribbean island of Bornay. Escaping winter's chill and inescapable reminders of her lost daughter, she finds herself charmed by a quaint seaside inn, its eccentric guests, the miles of beaches, and a new friend, Gerry. Little did she guess that before long she would be desperately fighting for her life and the lives of those she loves as she discovers the...

This brand-new 2017-2018 edition now includes even MORE information to push you out of your comfort zone and into action!!!Do you constantly doubt yourself or your abilities? Do you downplay your achievements or refuse to take credit for a job well done? Do you talk yourself out of doing something just so you won't fail? If so, then you're at the right place.If you're not ALL IN, ALL THE WAY, ALL THE TIME, then you're nowhere.Among the problem...

Are you living up to your fullest potential? This isn't just a workbook or journal -- it's a call to action! This workbook, companion to the ground-breaking Hey Ladies, Stop Apologizing ... and Other Career Mistakes Women Make, will help you tackle perfectionism, smash your obsession with being "nice, " snap out of procrastination, speak up with authority, strengthen your confidence, sell yourself and slay your fears. Success will not tap you...

This unique book, edited by John Winterdyk of Mount Royal University, includes insightful profiles and first-person accounts of the men and women who have shaped Canadian criminology and criminal justice from colonial times to the present. Intriguing memoirs by Patricia L. Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham, Ezzat Fattah, Arlène Gaudreault, Jim Hackler, Marc Le Blanc, Irvin Waller, Jo-Anne Wemmers provide a ringside seat to the evolution of c...