An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past - and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.

    No rules. No problems.Right?Wrong.And Jason's brother hasn't even found out what happened to his apartment. Yet.

    Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation.The most searing decade in Canada's history began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ended with the Second World War. With formidable story-telling powers, Berton reconstructs its engrossing events vividly: the Regina Riot, the Great Birth Control Trial, the black blizzards of the dust bowl and the rise of Social Credit. The extraordinary cast of characters includes Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who praised Hitler and Mussolini but thought Winston Churchill "one of the most dangerous men I have ever known"; Maurice Duplessis, who padlocked the homes of private citizens for their political opinions; and Tim Buck, the Communist leader who narrowly escaped murder in Kingston Penitentiary.In this #1 best-selling book, Berton proves that Canada's political leaders failed to take the bold steps necessary to deal with the mass unemployment, drought and despair. A child of the era, he writes passionately of people starving in the midst of plenty.

    As a woman, a black, and a lesbian, Brand arrives at a rigorous and nakedly ruthless reclamation of the poetic.

    This exclusive 3-in-1 edition brings the West to life through the eyes of three of Oke's strong young heroines. THE CALLING OF EMILY EVANS: A young woman questions her ability to carry out God's call to a country parish in the prairie settlements. JULIA'S LAST HOPE: Faced with the prospect of abandoning the home she loves, Julia must find a way to save her beloved town. ROSES FOR MAMA: Angela and her brother Thomas care for their three young siblings after their parents die. Angela wonders if she is worthy to meet the challenge.

    Capturing the moment when her unique talent blossomed in a new direction, this new edition of her life-affirming, universal stories will allow her to be read by a another generation of readers. Wallace’s poetry and short stories have been anthologized, and have appeared in periodicals across the country. She won a National Magazine Award, the Pat Lowther Award, the Du Maurier Award for Poetry, and in 1989 she was named Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in the U.K.

    In adulthood, she was publicly known as L. M. Montgomery but as "Maud" by family and friends. She attended Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, PEI and obtained a teaching certificate. In 1895-96 she studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1908, she published her first book, Anne of Green Gables, which was an immediate success. She married Ewan Macdonald, a Presbyterian Minister, and moved to Ontario where she wrote her next eleven books.

    Over 120 paintings in stunning, full-color plates.

    A tough autobiography of an Indian woman's life from the mud flats of Second Narrows Bridge, Vancouver, to the Toronto of the sixties and seventies, Lee Maracle gives us an important sense of the tough terrain of struggle toward political consciousness which all oppressed peoples undertake. Bobbi Lee is a hopeful work for recovering the possibilities of envisioning a world where we are not beaten down every day."- Dionne Brand

    Although drought, frost, and other natural phenomena contributed to the failure of early efforts, reserve farmers were determined to create an economy based on agriculture and to become independent of government regulations and the need for assistance. Officials in Ottawa, however, attributed setbacks not to economic or climatic conditions but to the Indians' character and traditions which, they claimed, made the Indians unsuited to agriculture. In the decade following 1885 government policies made farming virtually impossible for the Plains Indians. They were expected to subsist on one or two acres and were denied access to any improvements in technology: farmers had to sow seed by hand, harvest with scythes, and thresh with flails. After the turn of the century, the government encouraged land surrenders in order to make good agricultural land available to non-Indian settlers. This destroyed any chance the Plains Indians had of making agriculture a stable economic base. Through an examination of the relevant published literature and of archival sources in Ottawa, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Carter provides the first in-depth study of government policy, Indian responses, and the socio-economic condition of the reserve communities on the prairies in the post-treaty era.

    Her tone is clear, her stance honest, her words shimmer in beauty. This book of poems tracks with words the lives, pain and resilience of Native peoples and their long memoried past. Jeannette Armstrong, novelist, poet, children's story writer, and educator lives in Penticton, B.C

    Easy but elegant, simple but special - that's what today's entertaining is all about.  And that's what Canadian Living brings you in the pages of this beautiful full-color cookbook.  Getting together with family or friends is as popular now as it's ever been - whether it's a festive gathering at Christmas, an elegant dinner party or a relaxed summer barbecue.  But today's busy cooks don't have time to fuss with complicated menus and elaborate planning.

    Turning The Rig is his fascinating account of that voyage.

    

    A flip book with Fraser’s critically accalaimed play "Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love," as well as the screenplay, Love and Human Remains.

    Try Ghandi's Spicy Chapatis and Gujarati-Style carrot salad.

    The most memorable of Haig-Brown's reflections on life and nature.

    Describes the author's three month canoe adventure, which started at Duluth, Minnesota and ended at York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay.

    Today less than three percent of our country is set aside as parks and protected areas. Canadians now face the challenge of preserving and maintaining a wilderness that is the envy of the world and a unique part of our heritage. The Last Wilderness is a remarkable portrait of our wild places. Renowned photographer Freeman Patterson has selected 140 stunning and original images from over 9,000 photographs taken by nearly 50 of our most creative nature photographers. The collection represents not only the artistry of Patterson himself and other established photographers such as J.A. Kraulis and Fred Bruemmer, but also the work of our best new nature photographers, many of whom have never before been published. Together, they present a vision of wilderness, an extraordinary visual record of the wild places that remind us of the Earth's fragility and strength. The Preface by David Suzuki places Canadian environmental concerns in a global context, and an informed text by Freeman Patterson considers the role of the nature photographer in capturing and respecting wilderness. A Foreword and a thoughtful commentary on wilderness strategies by the Canadian Nature Federation show what can be done to preserve and maintain our wilderness for future generations. A full-color map identifies parks and wilderness areas across the country. The most important photographic collection on Canada since Canada: A Year of the Land, The Last Wilderness is a classic book that marks a turning point in our awareness of and commitment to the environment.

    

    In explaining why biological solutions were sought for social problems McLaren not only provides a provocative reappraisal of the ideas and activities of a generation of feminists, political progressives, and public health propagandists but he also explores some of the roots of our not-so-latent racist tendencies.

    . . Still" challenges the political, economic, and cultural order of Canada as a nation. In compelling, straight-to-the-mark fashion, William Gairdner demonstrates his conviction that Canada is caught between two irreconcilable styles of government: a top-down collectivism and a bottom-up individualism, and shows how society has been corrupted by a dangerous love affair with the former. For this twentieth-anniversary edition, Gairdner has revisited the same issues and -- unfortunately -- come to the same conclusions: Canada's love affair with handouts continues. More than a revised edition, this is a completely revised and fully updated clarion call to arms . . . before it is too late.