Do you relish the thought of serving in public life, but don't know where to start? With the honesty of experience, Sergio Marchi clearly spells out all the practical steps that you need to follow.Our politics are currently suffering formidable challenges. Our national discourse has become more polarized, increasingly divisive, and notably nastier. Consequently, many people are keeping their distance from public life, rejecting a political system that they deem broken and unrepairable. Public opinion surveys consistently reveal that public cynicism is at a record high, coupled by declining voter turnout. Young people are disengaged from public life.We urgently need to find ways to renew our political culture so that the political arena can be renewed with smart, competent people who bring fresh ideas and new energy to the profession.The Honourable Sergio Marchi -- city councillor, member of Parliament, cabinet minister, and ambassador -- shares his experiences over his thirty-year political career and captures the adventures, policy decisions, and lessons learned in an effort to shed light on the inner workings of a public life -- from nomination meetings, to campaigning, to governing -- to make it easier for those interested in making a difference to take the plunge into an exciting, meaningful, and purposeful profession.
The incredible true story of how a motley crew of Toronto folk quietly revolutionized the medium of children's television with minimal budgets and maximum imagination.Between 1952 and 2000, Toronto experienced a golden age in the production of local children's television programs. Starting with the very first broadcast on CBC, a fascinating nexus of media professionals, educators, and children's entertainers, most with no formal training, came together with the purpose to elevate the medium -- at the time the most powerful communications tool in the world &mdash and use it as an educational tool rather than simply a platform to sell product.This era was truly the Wild West of TV -- there was no rule book. Toronto's diverse population allowed for a unique mix of perspectives and talent to embrace the challenge and run with it.Sometimes successful, sometimes not, the work created during this era remains etched in the minds of several generations, including programs such as The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup, Polka Dot Door, Uncle Bobby, Today's Special, The Elephant Show and the many Degrassi series.
A comprehensive, fully illustrated survey of Canada's warship and maritime aircraft acquisitions from 1910 to the present day.Combining the talents of two of Canada's foremost naval historians, this book fills an important void in the story of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and associated Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Maritime Aviation. A never-before-attempted chronological examination of when and why Canada has procured its some 50 classes of warships and a dozen aircraft types over the past 120 years, and how it has employed and disposed of them, it does more than collect statistics on the specifications and characteristics of those vessels and aircraft -- it reveals fresh insights to many overlooked themes and connections. Karl Gagnon's marvellous profile drawings and many rarely seen images complement this engaging narrative history of the RCN and Maritime Aviation.
101 lesser-known basketfall stories and trivia to delight fans.Author provocateur Dalton Higgins provides 101 reasons why basketball (a.k.a. "the Beautiful Game") is the best unscripted drama -- next to The Real Housewives reality TV franchise -- and has captured the imagination of sports enthusiasts around the world. From the bold to the bizarre, Higgins unpacks the myths and realities behind the second most popular sport in the world with precision, breaking down all kinds of wildly interesting and obscure basketball facts tied to height, gender, geography, race, economics, and everything in between. From sneakers to salacious tidbits, Higgins offers takes on ages-old issues and debates: Can white men jump now? Have three-pointers become the new layup? Should traditional ten-foot rims be raised? Who is the G.O.A.T? Do "free" throws carry a cost? Is the WNBA the next big thing? Have hoop dreams become nightmares? Does size matter? Are hip hop and hoops kissing cousins? And why does basketball reign supreme in hockey obsessed countries like Canada?
Fascinating stories of the age-old tug-of-war between prisons desperate to keep inmates inside and the escapees pursuing freedom. A convict who returned to the prison he had recently escaped from to foment a mass break out; a murderer on the run who veered from folk hero to persona non grata after killing a famous police dog; a fugitive from the United States who was recaptured in Canada after she was featured on America's Most Wanted -- these are just a few of the felons whose prison break adventures continue to enthrall and terrify.Along with probing the origins, structure, and failings of a collection of historic and contemporary correctional institutions, On the Lam brings into sharp focus the attempts of masterminds, tricksters, villains, and innocents to claw their way to freedom -- sometimes successful, sometimes abortive, often deadly.
How brain injuries can result in highly specific, surprising, and revealing changes in behaviour that teach us how the mind works.The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe. After spending millennia trying to understand our ever-changing world, the brain is now turning its capacities for reasoning, remembering, and understanding inward, as it tries to understand itself.The biggest breakthroughs in neuroscience have come mostly by accident. These accidents didn't happen in research labs, but they resulted in infections from uncommon diseases or happened on railway jobs sites, in showers, on bicycles, or in cars and buses.When an individual suffers brain damage as the result of an accident, the negative effects can be profound, life-altering, and life-long, but the insights offered by the effects of these injuries have been revolutionary for neuroscientists. We have learned a tremendous amount about the brain from individuals with acquired brain injuries. These are some of their stories.
A teenage boy's tough ride across an unforgiving country.In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin Wallenco steals an antique pick-up truck and heads west from south Saskatchewan, driving on farmland and obscure roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus trying to return to his home, he encounters one mysterious situation after another: men on the run from police and their pasts, hippies trying to create a utopia, farmers switching their crop to marijuana, a raging fire in the Rockies. What he passes through is a microcosm of a massively changing society -- a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must act far older than his years.When Robin's purpose is revealed, this story becomes at once heartbreaking and heartwarming, an indirect look at childhood trauma through the eyes of a wildly brave yet non-comprehending victim, a man-boy who is both heroic and vulnerable.A RARE MACHINES BOOK
Small-time crook Hamid's search for his missing girlfriend pulls him into the orbit of a charismatic social-media imam.Tax fraud, telemarketing tricks, government scams. If you're tired of receiving these phone calls, imagine the guys making them.Hamid Shaikh is a small-time crook in the big city, hoping that one of his cons will lead to riches. When he's not working the phones hustling bogus duct-cleaning services, he dreams of a move that will finally announce his arrival.When his girlfriend Natalie Mendoza vanishes, he finds himself pulled into the world of former Guantanamo Bay detainee turned social-media imam Abdul Mohammed. As Hamid dives deeper into Abdul's nebulous and luxurious world, he finds a confusing mix of religious fervour and cynical self-advancement, and must decide just how far into darkness he wants to go to get Natalie back.A book of scams religious, political and economic, The Hypebeast is an utterly contemporary look at North American urban striving amid international geopolitical upheaval.
A lyrical meditation on the enduring obstacles women artists and writers face in a world still unaccustomed to recognizing female genius.Voted the "Next Picasso" in her rural high school's yearbook, South-African Canadian author Kasia Van Schaik considers what it means for a young woman to take up a mantle usually reserved for white heterosexual male genius. Drawing on a diverse web of literary and cultural sources and artistic icons, from Michelangelo to Ana Mendieta, Gauguin to Gertrude Stein, and Alice Walker to Alice Munro, Women Among Monuments asks what, beyond a room of one's own, are the necessary conditions for female genius? Where does the inner flint of artistic permission come from? What is the oxygen that keeps it burning? Through her lyrical biographies of female solitude, constraint, and perseverance, Kasia Van Schaik blazes a path for more inclusive artmaking practices, communities, and monuments.A RARE MACHINES BOOK
An anthology of speculative short fiction imagining the possibilities of our food insecure future.Our lives, our culture, our community all start with and revolve around what we eat, and how we eat it. Sharing meals with family and friends has been a hallmark of human society from our earliest beginnings. But we are entering an era of unprecedented change. Climate, technology, the global spread of crop diseases, droughts, and the loss of pollinators threaten to change not only how much food we eat, but what we eat and how we eat it.Devouring Tomorrow explores this strange new menu through the eyes and palates of some of Canada's most exciting authors. See a world with no bees left to pollinate our crops. Encounter lab-grown meat so advanced that it becomes alive. Visit a land where diseases wipe out a common fruit and the society of a nation changes around its loss. This is not the world of the distant future, this is tomorrow.Featuring stories from: Sifton Tracey Anipare - Carleigh Baker - Gary Barwin - Eddy Boudel Tan - Dina Del Bucchia - Catherine Bush - Jowita Bydlowska - Terri Favro - Ji Hong Sayo - Elan Mastai - Lisa de Nikolits - Mark Sampson - Jacqueline Valencia - Anuja Varghese - AGA Wilmot
The secrets of the house are the secrets of the heart.It begins with an act of betrayal.What follows is a wave of malas that destroys the tenuous bonds of Celestina Errantes's family. For years, she longs to escape her unhappy home, until an unexpected gift from her wealthy Lolo offers a chance at escape. A long-forsaken and haunted property in Manila's bohemian district, close to where the "low-flying doves" ply their trade. It is no place for a proper young lady, but the house makes Celestina feel at home.Celestina tears into life as a wild child and loses herself in the pleasures of the night. Many life lessons later, she grows up. She captivates an aristocratic restaurateur who promises a new life, in a home without ghosts. Then a voice from the past brings sinister whispers, threatening to drive them apart forever. Can Celestina confront the evil in her house and pull love out of the fire?A RARE MACHINES BOOK
The creator of an immersive eco-game discovers his teen son has joined a terrorist group on a mission to destroy all digital culture and entertainment. And both the creator and his son are on the digital hit list of an elusive assassin.
The Mosaic Myth shows how Canada's 1971 adoption of the cultural mosaic model was doomed by false assumptions. Author Domenic Diamante explains Canada's immigration history and analyzes key questions that informed the country's multiculturalism policy.
A memoir of creative non-fiction comprised of twenty-six letters written in poetic prose, Alphabet Soup dives deeply into the scalding heat of memory through a thematic approach that recalls and reframes love, death, joy, sorrow, victory, and devastation, then serves it piping hot in tantalizing doses to sate voracious literary appetites.
Through his thirty years in politics, Jason Kenney successfully shifted Canada's political discourse to the right. To do so, he cultivated a burgeoning right-wing populist movement, of which he ultimately lost control, leading to his downfall.
Gonzalo and Erica have one child and another on the way when they discover Erica has terminal cancer. Gonzalo's memoir explores reconciling hope with tragedy and doing your best when you're a widowed single father of two sons under two.
Shorter work hours are likely to lead to a happier, healthier, and more productive work force, as well as to reduced stress on the health-care system, since overwork is a key cause of mental and physical illness. Work Less proposes various ways for organizations to achieve shorter hours and offers policy options for use by governments.
An anthology of erotica by Canadian writers. The writers' names are listed on the cover, but the pieces are not individually attributed. The pieces vary from graphic to surreal. A snapshot of Canadian literary sex in 2024.
Ordinary citizens fought City Hall to have a suicide barrier erected around North America's second most "popular" suicide magnet, the Bloor Viaduct over Toronto's Don Valley.
Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie's abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.
Olympic gymnast Mary Sanders shares her journey of grief, financial struggles, battles with coaches, rivalries, and injuries, but also her reinventions, as a Cirque du Soleil acrobat, as an entertainment executive, and as a mother.
For every day of the year, there is Toronto Maple Leafs history to be celebrated or mourned. And with every turn of the page, Mike Commito brings you moments that are sure to remind you why you can't stop loving the Leafs. From the green Toronto St. Patricks to Auston Matthews scoring 60 goals in 2022, Leafs 365 has it all.
Shrinking newsrooms and an explosion in the ranks of spin doctors mean journalists are routinely being duped. Reporters often act as megaphones when they repeat a misleading press release or deceptive poll. Veteran investigative journalist Cecil Rosner exposes the problem and shows how we can do something about it.
All that's left of the Bliss clan is seventeen-year-old Cam, his older cousin Wes, and little Dorie, now that Gran passed and Gramps lies dead in the cold cellar. After Children's Aid pays a visit to their secluded farm, the unlikely trio head north, a dead body wrapped in the trunk.
In a single day, Cat finds out that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably creepy. The culture of striving has caught up to her family - and Cat doesn't handle it the way a middle-class mom is supposed to.
A journalist travels to the South on a mysterious mission to report on recent strikes in an offshore oil rig. Defending himself against unknown enemies, he spirals into a hallucinatory and haunting landscape. A mystical novel about totalitarianism, surveillance, alienation, and guilt that questions the nature of truth and forces that control us.
A history of the city through the lives of its leaders. From its origins as a dusty colonial outpost of just 9,600 residents to a metropolis of three million, this is the first-ever look at all 65 Toronto mayors: the good, the bad, the colourful, the leaders, the rogues, the scoundrels, and the reformers who have made Toronto what it is today.
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