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Softcover. Condition: Good. When W.O. Mitchell died in 1998 he was described as Canada's best-loved writer. Every commentator agreed that his best - and his best-loved - book was Who Has Seen the Wind. Since it was first published in 1947, this book has sold almost a million copies in Canada.As we enter the world of four-year-old Brian OConnal, his father the druggist, his Uncle Sean, his mother, and his formidable Scotch grandmother (she belshesa lot), it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary book. As we watch Brian grow up, the prairie and its surprising inhabitants like the Ben and Saint Sammy - and the rich variety of small-town characters - become unforgettable. This book will be a delightful surprise for all those who are aware of it, but have never quite got around to reading it, till now.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Toller Cranston is: six-time Canadian figure-skating champion, celebrity, costume designer, artist extraordinaire, broadcaster, choreographer of skating routines, raconteur, bon vivant, coach, world traveller, art collector, legend, and enigma. In 1976 he won Olympic bronze (so why did it feel like defeat?). This book tells the story of his life after those fateful games at Innsbruck.The rise and fall of Tollers first professional ice show is described in soul-searing detail. His subsequent triumphant tour of Europe as the Skater of the Century is recounted, in contrast, with wicked humour. There are vignettes here of his encounters with the rich and famous from Leonard Bernstein to Pierre Cardin and of his life among Europes aristocrats and bohemians. Toller has experienced the high life and the low. He has stayed in the most luxurious hotels, held court in palatial houses, sought seclusion in beautiful estates. But the hard times have taken their toll.In the early 1990s a combination of circumstances, including a disastrous professional association with out-of-control American skater Christopher Bowman and a lawsuit that dragged on for years (ending in complete victory for Toller), led to a personal crisis from which recovery came slowly. But even in the blackest hours, Tollers humour and creative powers never deserted him.This generously illustrated book is an extraordinary self-portrait written by a uniquely gifted individual. Tollers wit, insight, and delicious way with words will entertain and astound readers whether they are skating fans or not.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall queens, paupers turned millionaires, missionaries and entrepreneurs, and legendary Mounties such as Sam Steele, the Lion of the Yukon.Pierre Berton's riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass, and the terrors of lesser-known trails through the swamps of British Columbia, across the glaciers of souther Alaska, and up the icy streams of the Mackenzie Mountains. It contrasts the lawless frontier life on the American side of the border to the relative safety of Dawson City. Winner of the Governor General's award for non-fiction, Klondike is authentic history and grand entertainment, and a must-read for anyone interested in the Canadian frontier.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised. With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall queens, paupers turned millionaires, missionaries and entrepreneurs, and legendary Mounties such as Sam Steele, the Lion of the Yukon.Pierre Berton's riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass, and the terrors of lesser-known trails through the swamps of British Columbia, across the glaciers of souther Alaska, and up the icy streams of the Mackenzie Mountains. It contrasts the lawless frontier life on the American side of the border to the relative safety of Dawson City. Winner of the Governor General's award for non-fiction, Klondike is authentic history and grand entertainment, and a must-read for anyone interested in the Canadian frontier.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised. Originally published in 1951, and rejected at the time by one NHL coach as "the product of a three-year-old mind," Lloyd Percival's <i>The Hockey Handbook</i> went on to become an internationally recognized classic. Russian and European coaches seized on the book as the first authoritative, analytical treatment of hockey fundamentals and based their training regimes on the principles Percival described. The father of Russian hockey, Anatoli Tarasov, wrote to Percival: "Your wonderful book which introduced us to the mysteries of Canadian hockey, I have read like a schoolboy."<br /><br />Now, nearly half a century later, <i>The Hockey Handbook</i> remains in a class by itself. It is the first book required by players or coaches at all levels of proficiency who are setting out to develop their own or their teams hockey skills.<br /><br />Wayne Major, Larry Sadler, and Robert Thom are all experienced amateur hockey coaches who came to appreciate the practical value of Percivals pioneering work. In revising the text, they drew upon the expertise of a variety of specialists, including, for example, Dr. Tom Sawa, who updated the chapter on training and conditioning, to give <i>The Hockey Handbook</i> a new relevance to modern hockey coaches. Now redesigned and issued in an easy-to-use format, the book will serve as an inspiration and guide to future generations of players and coaches.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Dick Irvin.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. On December 15, 2001 Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien presented to the United States ambassador a special presentation copy of a sumptuous book commemorating the outpouring of sympathy, support, and assistance offered by Canadians to their American friends in the immediate aftermath of the terrible events of September 11. On February 2, 2002 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., together with the Government of Canada and exclusive sponsor Alliance Atlantis, offers this book to people on both sides of the border.This is a superbly designed, full-colour coffee-table book containing brilliant photographs of the events immediately following the appalling terrorist strikes and a selection of emotion-laden letters, articles, and messages reflecting the heartfelt responses of Canadians from Vancouver to St. Johns.The book is organized as a day-by-day chronicle. It shows in words and pictures what happened when hundreds of commercial airliners were unexpectedly grounded, stranding tens of thousands of people far from their homes. It shows the memorial services that were held everywhere, particularly on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, where 100,000 people gathered. It shows the steps that Canadians took, both as individuals (for example, by assisting in the work at Ground Zero), and as a nation (by mobilizing our armed forces).It has been remarked that the events of September 11 have had a positive effect by bringing out the best in people. Nowhere is this more evident than in the manifest demonstrations of friendship between Canadians and Americans since that consequential day. This superb volume is both a memorial to those lost and a celebration of the spirit shared by the survivors on both sides of the border.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Berton brings the story of the remarkable adventurers in the history of the Arctic exploration to life in all their glories and eccentricities--including some shocking revelations about who really reached the Pole. Tour.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In this passionate, thought-provoking vision for Canada, Ken Dryden argues that we have paid a price for having the wrong sense of ourselves as a country. The old definition of Canada - genial but sometimes too self-deprecating and ambition-killing - is no longer the real story. Through recent global events such as Barack Obamas election and first year in office; the climate conference in Copenhagen; and even the 2010 Winter Olympics, Dryden explores the clash between politics and story, and the importance of a nation finding its true narrative in order to thrive.By tracing the ups and downs in contemporary Canadian politics, from the Liberal leadership race to Stephen Harpers Conservative minority governments, Michael Ignatieffs appointment as Opposition leader, and prorogation, Ken Dryden presciently identifies the obstacles facing Canada. He observes a sea change taking place among Canadians, who want something more for their country. The ambition of Canadas policies and the nature of our politics will not change, Dryden says, until we conceive of a new story for the nation.Becoming Canadais at once a celebration of Canada and a timely, ardent rallying cry to all Canadians to build upon Canadas unique place in the world. It is certain to inspire new conversations about our Canadas identity at home and abroad.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Product DescriptionA Summer Without Dawn is an epic family saga that unfolds against the true story of the Armenians deported from the Ottoman Empire and massacred during the First World War.In the summer of 1915, days after the government orders the deportation of the Armenians, the charismatic Armenian journalist Vartan Balian is separated from his family and imprisoned by politicians hoping to silence him. After a daring escape, he becomes a fugitive and embarks on an odyssey across the vast empire. Not only is he running for his life; he is also searching for his wife, Maro, and their young son, Tomas. Forced into one of the deportee convoys headed for the Syrian desert, their numbers thinning every day, Maro and Tomas are saved from certain death when the Ottoman governor overseeing their deportation shelters them in the cloistered splendour of his palace, where Maro is reluctantly drawn into his harems web of betrayals and alliances. In the four years that will pass before they are reunited, the Balians will each confront the calamities of war and the secrets of their own heart.With settings ranging from the exotic opulence of a Turkish harem and the cosmopolitan streets of Constantinople, to the blistering desolation of the Syrian desert, this sweeping novel immerses the reader in a time, a place, and a political moment that have rarely, if ever, been portrayed in the pages of a novel. A Summer Without Dawn is a rich tapestry of lives, a compelling human drama about a family swept up in one of historys darkest moments, and a moving portrait of a peoples unbreakable will to survive.ReviewNot since Pasternaks Doctor Zhivago and the works of Kundera has a novel seemed to me as moving and as indispensable.-Voir[A work of] compelling beauty and importance.-HourA gripping read.A fascinating and very cinematic novel, written from the gut.-The Independent (U.K.)A page-turner; brimmingly eventful and populated with memorable characters.-Montreal GazetteFrom the Inside Flaper Without Dawn is an epic family saga that unfolds against the true story of the Armenians deported from the Ottoman Empire and massacred during the First World War.In the summer of 1915, days after the government orders the deportation of the Armenians, the charismatic Armenian journalist Vartan Balian is separated from his family and imprisoned by politicians hoping to silence him. After a daring escape, he becomes a fugitive and embarks on an odyssey across the vast empire. Not only is he running for his life; he is also searching for his wife, Maro, and their young son, Tomas. Forced into one of the deportee convoys headed for the Syrian desert, their numbers thinning every day, Maro and Tomas are saved from certain death when the Ottoman governor overseeing their deportation shelters them in the cloistered splendour of his palace, where Maro is reluctantly drawn into his harems web of betrayals and alliances. In the four years that will pass before they are reunited,From the Back CoverNot since Pasternaks Doctor Zhivago and the works of Kundera has a novel seemed to me as moving and as indispensable.-Voir[A work of] compelling beauty and importance.-HourA gripping read.A fascinating and very cinematic novel, written from the gut.-The Independent (U.K.)A page-turner; brimmingly eventful and populated with memorable characters.-Montreal GazetteAbout the AuthorAgop J. Hacikyan is the author of several books and has translated and edited the works of major Armenian poets and fiction writers.Jean-Yves Soucy is the author of several novels, short-story collections, and books of essays.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. He has been described as bold, brazen, and totally unabashed, one of a kind, and clearly a genius. He won the Canadian figure-skating championships six times and brought back a bronze medal from the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. He revolutionized mens figure skating, single-handedly transforming an athletic competition into a modern art form. He is an artist, celebrity, costume designer, broadcaster, choreographer of skating routines, coach, bon vivant, world traveller, art collector, legend, and enigma. And Toller Cranston has stories to tell.Like the time at Lake Placid when a woman drove her car directly into his bedroom and seduced him, and the groupie who broke into his house and waited for him naked except for a few strategically arranged rose petals. He writes about his encounters with the great and famous. (On meeting Joni Mitchell, for example, he asked, politely, You sing, dont you?) With mixed feelings, he describes his reaction upon viewing a German-made pornographic film in which he played an unexpected part.This is not so much a sequel to Toller Cranstons previous best-selling memoir, Zero Tollerance, as a companion volume. There are skating stories and stories from the world of art, there are stories of good times and of bad, high times and low. There are portraits of extraordinary people who have shaped and coloured his life, parting thoughts about his relationship with the management group IMG, about his own retirement, and about the condition of skating today. But this is chiefly an entertaining look back on the first half of an eventful, unusual life by a great Canadian artist and performer.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The northern cod have been almost wiped out. Once the most plentiful fish on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland, the cod is now on the brink of extinction, and tens of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada have been left without work by a 1992 moratorium on fishing the stock. Today, the Pacific salmon stocks are in similar trouble - victims of the same blind, stupid greed.Angry, accusatory fingers have been pointed at various possible culprits for the collapse of the cod - at the Spanish and Portuguese, who for hundreds of years sent ever-bigger fleets to the Grand Banks; at the factory-freezer trawlers, which vacuumed the ocean floor for the prized fish; at those inshore fishermen who circumvented the rules governing the fishery; at the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is responsible for managing the fishery; at the harp seal, the cods competitor for food, whose numbers have exploded in recent years; even at Nature, for lowering the temperature of the ocean.In Lament for an Ocean, the award-winning true-crime writer Michael Harris investigates the real causes of the most wanton destruction of a natural resource in North American history since the buffalo were wiped off the face of the prairies. The story he carefully unfolds is the sorry tale of how, despite the repeated and urgent warnings of ocean scientists, the northern cod was ruthlessly exploited.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Canadian First. Excellent Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A practicing Catholic defends the faith and offers a passionate response to current anti-Catholic opinion.In Why Catholics Are Right, author, columnist, and practicing Catholic Michael Coren examines four main aspects of Catholicism as they are encountered, understood, and more importantly, misunderstood today. Beginning with a frank examination of the tragedy of the Catholic clergy abuse scandal, Coren addresses some of them most common attacks on Catholics and Catholicism. Tracing Catholic history, he deconstructs popular and frequent anti-Catholic arguments regarding the Church and the Crusades, the Inquisition, Galileo, and the Holocaust. He examines Catholic theology and central pillars of Catholic belief, explaining why Catholics believe what they do: papal infallibility, immaculate conception, the Church rather than Bible alone. Finally, he explores the dignity of life argument and why it is so important to Catholicism.In this challenging and thought-provoking book, Michael Coren demolishes often propagated myths about the Church's beliefs and teachings, and in doing so, opens a window onto Catholicism, which, he writes, "is as important now as it ever was and perhaps even more necessary."

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. <b>Oryx and Crake</b> is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey-with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake-through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer.From the IntroductionUnderstand how gambling fixers work to corrupt a soccer game and you will understand how they move into a basketball league, a cricket tournament, or a tennis match (all places, by the way, that criminal fixers have moved into). My views on soccer have changed. I still love the Saturday-morning game between amateurs: the camaraderie and the fresh smell of grass. But the professional game leaves me cold. I hope you will understand why after reading the book. I think you may never look at sport in the same way again.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Ward, Max.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Peter C. Newman.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In this acclaimed collection of twelve stories, Margaret Atwood probes the territory of childhood memories and the casual cruelty men and women inflict upon each other and themselves. She looks behind the familiar world of family summers at remote lakes, ordinary lives, and unexpected loves, and she unearths profound truths. A melancholy, teenage love is swept away by a Canadian hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the spectacle of rare Jamaican birds; a potter tries to come to terms with the group of poets who so smother her that she is driven into the arms of her accountant; and, in the title story, the Bluebeard legend is retold as an ironic tale of marital deception. Stark and scathing at times, humorous and compassionate at others, <i>Bluebeard's Egg</i> confirms once again Atwood's reputation as the preeminent chronicler of our times.<br /><br />Included in this novel: Bluebeard's Egg; Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother; Hurricane Hazel; Loulou; or The Domestic Life of the Language; Uglypuss; Betty; Spring Song of the Frogs; Scarlet Ibis; The Salt Garden; The Sin Eater; The Sunrise; Unearthing Suite.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister' s death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase family secrets. Among these is " The Blind Assassin, " a novel that earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, it was a pulp fantasy improvised by two unnamed lovers who meet secretly in rented rooms and seedy cafe s. As this novel-within-a-novel twists and turns through love and jealousy, self-sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real narrative, as both move closer to war and catastrophe. Margaret Atwood' s Booker Prize-winning sensation combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding tale.

Softcover. Condition: used. Our most troubled youth are far more resilient and healthy than we are ready to admit. If we take the time to listen very closely to our children speak about their experiences beyond our front doors, we hear an entirely different story about their lives than the one we adults tell.Unlike many other books about difficult kids that reflect the wisdom of adults, this one explores the truth of adolescence. It builds on recent explorations of youth such as Mary Piphers Reviving Ophelia, Judith Rich Harris The Nurture Assumption, and William Pollacks Real Boys. It examines emerging trends in psychology, as well as recent innovations in work with our most unhealthy young people. Playing at Being Badoffers particular insight for parents, teachers, and caregivers of troubled youth just beginning, or already stuck in, patterns of delinquency, drug or alcohol addiction, sexual promiscuity, violence, suicide, depression, and truancy. This book tells the story of the teens Ungar worked with for more than fifteen years, taking a close look at the crises kids face, while exploring the important role that adults can play in keeping dangerous and delinquent youth from drifting further into trouble.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2004 winner of the J.J. Talman Award from the Ontario Historical Society."On July 13, 1953, the curtain rose on Richard III, the first production of the first Stratford Festival. Only it didnt. There was no curtain, and that is perhaps the single most important fact about the Festival. From that, sometimes in reaction to that, everything else has followed."So begins Fifty Seasons at Stratford, an historical account of Canadas world-renowned Shakespearean theatre, as told by Robert Cushman, writer, director, and critic. More than 250 full-colour and black-and-white photographs, design sketches, drawings and paintings from the Festival archives fill this extraordinary book, making it a worthy celebration of Stratfords golden anniversary. Acclaimed author and playwright Timothy Findley (who has himself appeared on the theatres varnished boards) begins this journey. He is joined by distinguished Festival alumni Christopher Plummer, William Shatner, Irene Worth, and Hume Cronyn, who offer personal accounts of their experiences.Stratford is inseparable from Canadian theatre. As Robert Cushman reminds us, Canadian actors from Kate Reid and Martha Henry to William Hutt and Bruno Gerusi, first learned how to hold an audience on Tania Moisevitchs innovative stage.Cushmans vast knowledge of the theatre is everywhere evident as he describes the theatres humble beginnings under a tent, the difficult years when Canadian actors strove to establish themselves, and its present and continuing glory. The text is authoritative and comprehensive. The photos are evocative and memorable. Sidebars and well-chosen sketches illustrate the myriad crafts and artisan departments that toil backstage - costume, make-up, and props.Fifty Years at Stratford is the indispensable reference and perfect record to which theatre fans everywhere will turn again and again.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Product DescriptionA gripping tale of guilty secrets, betrayal, and racial tension, of isolation and revenge in modern-day South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Good DoctorWhen Adam moves into the abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhood - and Cannings enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and a giant folly in the veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and perhaps forever.The Impostor evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. Skilfully interweaving the story of one mans struggle to regain his moral centre with the disorienting, often tragic effects of massive social and political change, it is Galguts most powerful and unforgettable novel yet.ReviewGalgut has the talent to grow into one of South Africa's great literary voices, alongside its Nobel laureates, Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee.- EconomistGalgut is a master of psychological tension.- Globe and Mail[The Good Doctor is] a gripping read, laced throughout with powerful emotional truth and Damon Galguts extraordinary vision.- IndependentGalguts style is as bony as the landscape he depicts, as sly and sinewy as the characters that inhabit it.- Times Literary Supplement[This] many-layered tale of friendship and betrayal proves Galgut is a worthy heir to Gordimer and Coetzee.- The ObserverLike the diamonds mined in his native South Africa, Damon Galguts The Impostor is a multi-faceted gem. . . . Like Ian McEwan, he is a master of menace.- Vancouver SunTaut writing and a breathtaking suspense combine to produce a spine-tingling thriller. . . . A gripping read.- Winnipeg Free PressA hugely satisfying read.- National PostAbout the AuthorDamon Galgut is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. His most recent novel, The Good Doctor, won a regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Galgut lives in Cape Town, South Africa.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.The first time he sees her: they come around the corner and she is standing on the grass, her back to them. The sun is going down in a spectacular arterial sewage of colour, but she appears indifferent to the display. She seems rapt in some private fantasy, holding a long suede coat closed around her body, despite the heat. She hears them and turns. Under the coat she is wearing a short, shimmery blue dress, and her legs are very long. Although her feet are bare, its as if shes wearing high heels. Even before he sees the bright paint on her face, Adam has a flash of the woman on the road outside the town, selling herself. She seems to have been transported here, garish and gorgeous and improbable.Once that first image fades, he sees past it to how beautiful she is. She is like an exotic doll, all her tiny features in immaculate proportion. Shes also young; at least ten years younger than Canning - which means ten years younger than Adam too.My wife, Baby, Canning says. Baby, this is Nappy.She holds out her hand. He can feel her long nails in his palm. The sensation lets something loose in him - distaste mixed with desire. He holds her fingers for a second longer than is necessary.Ive heard so much about you, she says. My husband has talked about you so many times.Her voice is low, husky, a little disinterested. The accent is neutral and rootless, hard to place. Her eyes linger on him for a moment, summing him up, before dismissing him.What do you think? Canning says proudly. I told you my wife is amazing.Yes, Adam murmurs. He doesnt know wh.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Akin to Anne is storytelling at its bittersweet, poignant best. Admirers of Montgomerys work will treasure this spirited anthology, while students of Canadian literature will reclaim with joy this long-lost part of our rich literary heritage.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Canadian First. Winner of the Writer's Trust of Canada / Samara's - Best Canadian Political Book of the Last 25 YearsPart memoir, part investigative journalism, this is a shocking and controversial look at the corruption of Canadas human rights commissions.On January 11, 2008, I was summoned to a 90-minute government interrogation. My crime? As the publisher of Western Standard magazine, I had reprinted the Danish cartoons of Mohammed to illustrate a news story. I was charged with the offence of discrimination, and made to appear before Albertas human rights commission for questioning. As crazy as it sounds, I became the only person in the world to face legal sanction for printing those cartoons.As a result of this highly publicized event, Ezra Levant began investigating other instances in which innocent people have had their freedoms compromised by bureaucrats presuming to protect Canadians human rights. He discovered some disturbing and even bizarre cases, such as the tribunal ruling that an employee at a McDonald s restaurant in Vancouver did not have to wash her hands at work. And the human rights complaint filed by a Calgary hair stylist against the women at a salon school who called him a loser. In another case that seemed stranger than fiction, an emotionally unstable transvestite fought for - and won - the right to counsel female rape victims, despite the anguished pleas of those same traumatized victims. Human rights commissions now monitor political opinions, fine people for expressing politically incorrect viewpoints, censor websites, and even ban people, permanently, from saying certain things.The book is a result of Levants ordeal and the research it inspired. It shows how our concept of human rights has morphed into something dangerous and drastically different from its original meaning. Shakedown is a convincing plea to Canadians to reclaim their basic liberties.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Sweet, Lois.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer who was rescued between rounds of beer in a Banff tavern; the man who catered to hungry grizzlies; an opinionated packrat with a gift for larceny; and a horse named Candy whose heart was as big as a stove.Along the way, Marty tries to answer the kind of questions that all of us must face some day. Do we really have to grow up and abandon adventure as well as youthful ideals? Can the mountains draw old friends back together, when politics and life styles have set them apart?Sid Marty writes gracefully of the land he loves and lampoons a few bureaucrats whose policies sometimes threaten its integrity. His portraits of the people - and creatures - that make their lives in the mountains are affectionate and respectful. But, above all, this is a collection of engaging, surprising, funny, and superbly told true stories by a gifted writer.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Terry Fox, the one-legged runner from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, made an indelible impression upon people across Canada and around the world. An outstanding athlete with a stubborn and competitive spirit, he lost his leg to cancer at 19, but said nobody is ever going to call me a quitter.On April 12, 1980, Terry Fox set out from St. Johns, Newfoundland to begin the run across Canada that he named the Marathon of Hope. His ambition was to raise a million dollars for cancer research. It wasnt easy. Initial support from communities varied from terrific to nothing at all. His prosthetic leg was painful to run on, and there were always traffic and extreme weather conditions to deal with. But, by the time he reached Ontario - a journey of more than 3,000 kilometres - word of his achievement had spread, and thousands cheered him and followed his progress. Terrys spirits soared, and now he hoped to raise $22 million dollars - one dollar for every Canadian. He succeeded in this ambition, but the Marathon of Hope ended near Thunder Bay, Ontario on September 1, 1980. The cancer had spread to his lungs, and, after running 24 miles in one day, on the next he could run no further.When cancer finally claimed his life in 1981, Canada mourned the loss of a hero, but the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope lives on. The Terry Fox Foundation raised more than $17 million in 1999, and support for the event nationally and around the world is growing.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Product Description When his attempts to publish his eccentric list poems in literary journals prove futile, convicted rapist and Shakespearean scholar Lawrence Woolley exacts the most terrible revenge. One by one, he murders the editors who have rejected his work, each time leaving a signature clue for the cops to puzzle over.Detective Sergeant Campbell Young, the narrator, deep in a funk since his not-so-recent divorce and unhappily contemplating retirement, takes on the case, initially with great weariness. Soon he finds himself fascinated by the wiles and learning of his murderous adversary and rises to Woolleys challenge of wits, with the help of colleagues and friends from his local bar. But the challenge comes excruciatingly close to home when Woolley, in desperation, ditches his modus operandi and targets Youngs adult daughter as his next victim.The setting is Toronto during the World Series in October 1992, and baseball ranks second only to apprehending Woolley in the lives of Young and his hard-drinking circle of friends.Atmospheric, graphic, and compelling, The Devil in Me is as much a literary puzzle as the suspenseful story of Youngs search for Woolley and his own search for some meaning in his life. Review With interesting characters, sharp dialogue, superb pacing, and plenty of thrills, this exciting first novel succeeds in whetting the appetite for more. -Peter RobinsonLike its sensitive, cynical, wondering, unforgettable narratorThe Devil in Me never skips over the surface of things in a headlong flight to resolution. This is a book that dives deep. -M. T. Kelly From the Inside Flap When his attempts to publish his eccentric ?list? poems in literary journals prove futile, convicted rapist and Shakespearean scholar Lawrence Woolley exacts the most terrible revenge. One by one, he murders the editors who have rejected his work, each time leaving a signature clue for the cops to puzzle over.Detective Sergeant Campbell Young, the narrator, deep in a funk since his not-so-recent divorce and unhappily contemplating retirement, takes on the case, initially with great weariness. Soon he finds himself fascinated by the wiles and learning of his murderous adversary and rises to Woolley?s challenge of wits, with the help of colleagues and friends from his local bar. But the challenge comes excruciatingly close to home when Woolley, in desperation, ditches his modus operandi and targets Young?s adult daughter as his next victim.The setting is Toronto during the World Series in October 1992, and baseball ranks second only to apprehending Woolley in the lives of Young and his hard-drinking circle of friends.Atmospheric, graphic, and compelling, The Devil in Me is as much a literary puzzle as the suspenseful story of Young?s search for Woolley and his own search for some meaning in his life. About the Author A high-school English teacher, J. D. Carpenter lives in Toronto. The Devil in Me is his first mystery novel, and he is currently at work on a sequel, also starring Detective Sergeant Campbell Young.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by Mowat, Farley.