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  • Extraordinary Canadians Wilfrid Laurier

    by Andre Pratte ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Everyone knows that Wilfrid Laurier was a great prime minister, an astonishing speaker, and a survivor. But nobody has looked at him as more than a mythological figure for a very long time. André Pratte, chief editorial writer of La Presse, uncovers Laurier's full complexity amid the charged political circumstances of the early 20th century. Laurier tried to unite a country deeply divided in the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • What I Wish I Said

    Confessions of a Columnist

    by Jaime Watt ...
    Just as they do on those television cooking contests when the bell rings and the contestants’ hands go up, at four o’clock on Friday afternoon, the column is filed—ready or not—to the columnist’s horror, discomfort, or self-satisfaction. Regardless, one exigent and unrelenting thought remains: what you wish you’d said.Such is the life of a weekly newspaper columnist.Unable to ignore the urge any ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Legacy

    How French Canadians Shaped North America

    Edited by Andre Pratte, Jonathan Kay ...
    A ground-breaking work of nation building, this unique biographical book by many of English and French Canada's best-known writers and thinkers -- Margaret Atwood, Lucien Bouchard, Dr. Samantha Nutt, Ken Dryden, etc. -- tells the story of the extraordinary legacy of the French contribution to our very way of life.In 1913, schoolgirls found a heavy metal plaque peeking out of the soil in St-Pierre, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants

    Humanitarian Crises in a Security-Obsessed World

    by Joanne Liu ...
    Translated by Marisa Coulton ...
    A searing account of three interconnected global crises that defined the 2010s, and a powerful invitation to respond with compassionate solidarity.In Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants, Dr. Joanne Liu, former International President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, draws on frontline experience to examine three major humanitarian crises of the 2010s, revealing the global obsession with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Religious Citizenships and Islamophobia

    Edited by Virginie Andre, Douglas Pratt ...
    The attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015 once again brought to the fore the place of Islam in Western secular democracies, and the questioning of Muslim citizenship. The hyper-mediatisation of jihadist terrorism and its subsequent conflation with Muslim communities in general, has led to both an increase in widespread popular fear of Islam and its followers, and the further ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

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    Looking at Mindfulness

    25 Ways to Live in the Moment Through Art

    by Christopher André ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    Stop doing, stop moving, stop twisting and turning.These are the first steps toward inner calm and increased mental clarity, says psychiatrist and leading meditation practitioner Christophe André, who in this book guides us through the art of mindfulness, beginning with art itself. Looking at Mindfulness collects classic and esoteric paintings, from Rembrandt to Hopper to Magritte, and offers a ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Extraordinary Canadians: Mordecai Richler

    by M G Vassanji ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    One of Canada's top novelists examines the life and work of another Canadian Great. Both Richler and Vassanji are award-winning novelists who regarded themselves as outsiders in their respective societies—one a Jew in Quebec, the other an Indian in Tanzania who emigrated to Canada. Their experiences were vastly different, but their perspective as outsiders allows each a unique viewpoint. With ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Canada has no better interpreter than prolific writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that Canada did not begin in 1867; indeed, its foundation was laid by two visionary men, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin. The two leaders of Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, worked together after the 1841 Union to lead a reformist movement for responsible government run by elected ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Auto Pact, and the new Maple Leaf flag. Pearson came to power after an impressive career as a diplomat, where he played a vital role in the creation of NATO and the United Nations, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Maurice Richard

    by Charles Foran ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Born in 1921 into a working-class family, Maurice Richard came of age as a French Canadian and athlete during an era when the majority population of Quebec slumbered. A proud, reticent man, Richard aspired only to score goals and win championships for the Montreal Canadiens. But he represented far more than a high-scoring forward who filled seats in NHL arenas. Beginning with his 50-goal, 50-game ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy—has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • King

    William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny

    by Allan Levine ...
    William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was passionately committed to Canadian unity, and was a protector of the underdog, introducing such cornerstones of Canada’s social safety net as unemployment insurance, family allowances and old-age pensions. At the same time, he was insecure, craved flattery, became upset at minor criticism, and was ... Read more

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