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The Compassionate Imagination is a radical reimagining of the role of art and culture in a modern democracy -- an inspirational, aspirational blueprint for a Canadian Cultural Contract that reawakens our instincts for empathy and kindness, and integrates the creative imagination into our responses to the great social challenges we face.

Let's face it, planning and saving for retirement is not easy. We are told that the earlier we start, the better and that the "magic of compounding" will make our dreams come true if we simply trust the stock market and our investment advisor. But for most people it's simply not possible. People in their twenties are often saddled with student debt and may be struggling to find suitable full-time employment. Saving for retirement is the last t...

In this story of a son, his mother, and her Alzheimer's disease, a small Maritime town provides transforms into the loom on which the shared and contested memories of three generations are woven, unraveled, and rewoven.

Dame Polara has spent her adult life in the shadow of her father, a shady private investigator. Now, she must rely on the skills he taught her if she's to protect herself and the people she cares about most.

March Roars is the fourth installment in the Paradise Café Mysteries featuring Private Investigator Charlotte Frayne and set in Depression-era Toronto.

This memoir from Douglas & McIntyre co-founder Scott McIntyre is rich in personal anecdote and is an insightful portrait of the publishing industry. This is more than an account of building a house, it's a book about the impact of storytellers and the building of Canada's literary and cultural vision.

Pakistan, 2083 A.D. The world is snow and blood. For Avaan, a gun in his hand feels as natural as breathing. As a Pakistani living under martial law and religious bigotry, violence is never too far away. Three years ago, a military raid snatched whatever respite he had -- his brother, his family, and Doua, the love of his life.Now a heartbroken wreck of a man, Avaan finds himself embroiled in a city-wide conspiracy that poisons everything he's...

The Freedom Convoy analyzes how Canada's Freedom Convoy movement serves as the latest example of ideological exrtemists' perennial efforts to exploit moments of wide-spread frustration as "hook issues" through which to draw people into their darker politics. The drivers of this phenomenon -- including the sins of the state -- are diagnosed.

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Filipinos have contributed invaluably to the fabric of Canadian society. Magdaragat is a collection of writing that explores Filipino-Canadian identities, experiences, histories, presents, and futures, and serves to reinforce their cultural contributions.

John Haney, one of the creators of the beloved board game Trivial Pursuit, walks us through his life -- his hockey career, his time in Europe, his theatre career, and much more -- and how it all led him to acquire the plethora of knowledge that later became the fodder for quality cutthroat game nights around the world.

The journal of the last years of the young poet's life, full of intense erotic longing and philosophical wonderment.

Fifteen writers in exile were asked for pieces of writing about their experiences in the home countries that they were forced to escape. These brutal and heart-rending stories show the strength and resilience of human beings from all over the world who continue to seek truth, justice, and freedom of expression.

Stephen Millburn is barely holding it together. Balancing his parenting duties with a new job as an early-morning radio host is much harder than he anticipated. He needs his job to support his growing family and pay down his crippling mortgage, but if he doesn't find a way to cope soon, he'll lose it all.

In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in the most unexpected ways as they search to create meaning and relationships in their lives. What begins as a search for a lost dog propels a group of unconnected characters into a difficult journey of self-discovery.

Burmese-American photographer Min Lin's first trip to Burma in 1988, during an uprising, sends him on a journey of self-examination and stirs up a secret family history when he comes face-to-face with a Burmese army captain that looks just like him.

Accomplished writer, poet, and teacher Betsy Warland explores the writing process while on a quest to articulate the powerful forces beneath the craft of language, including materials, tools, and processes.

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Gripping and evocative, Some Unfinished Business tells the story of a man determined to prevail through anti-Soviet resistance in occupied Lithuania, imprisonment in the Gulag, the hands of bureaucracy that attempt to thwart his love for a woman with a mysterious past, while chasing the back of a man who first dared him to dream.

In Defence of Copyright explores the nature of unauthorized use and piracy and reviews some of the new challenges for copyright in the digital age. This must-read, general introduction is a guide to the essentials of copyright and its history.