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Ground-breaking research led to the creation of the Lucky Iron Fish, a unique device that tackles iron deficiency globally, propelled by the entrepreneurial spirit of Dr. Gavin Armstrong.

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.

The American-led global order has been increasingly challenged by Chinese assertiveness and Russian revanchism. As we enter this new era of great-power competition, Canadians tend to assume that the United States will continue to provide global leadership for the West. Canada Alone sketches the more dystopian future that is likely to result if the illiberal, anti-democratic, and authoritarian Make America Great Again movement regains power. Under the twin stresses of a reinvigorated America First policy and the purposeful abandonment of American global leadership, the West will likely fracture, leaving Canadians all alone with an increasingly dysfunctional United States. Canada Alone outlines what Canadians will need to navigate this deeply unfamiliar post-American world.

Celebrate the livable city with this guidebook to Toronto's outdoor public spaces. Written by urban designer Ken Greenberg and city advocate Eti Greenberg, discover the urban beauty of silos, lush parks, underpasses, and ravines and be guided by colour photographs and maps.

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.

"In the year following her mother's death, Sophie navigates a complicated love triangle between a new flame and a past partner. It's the west end of Toronto, the apartments are small, and everybody is twenty-seven and making some kind of art. In the wake of her mother's death, Sophie pays rent by making stained glass mosaics for rich people and plays house with her childhood friend and sometimes-lover, the beautiful boy Alex. Both are from Newfoundland but move easily in this world of crowded patios and DIY movie shoots. When Sophie meets the glamorous poet Maggie, who is the downtown product of a hundred cool queer bars, she falls into a bewildered infatuation, but secrets emerge that threaten to crumble the foundation of her relationship with Alex and Maggie both. Moving from bohemian Toronto to an arts colony in a castle in France and then back to Newfoundland, Mudflowers examines the impact of family that one is born into and family one chooses, exploring new and unconventional intimacies."--

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.

Black Enterprize chronicles the entrepreneurship of remarkable Black men and women. Icons such as Marcus Garvey, Madam C.J. Walker, Aliko Dangote, Robert F. Smith, and many more take centre stage to showcase the historic achievements of Black people from Britain, America, Africa, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. His is a special case. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through. Life goes on, after a fashion, but there are consequences to surviving.

We all lived our own pandemics. For writer Rebecca Rosenblum, the pandemic meant watching and considering the city she loves. From milestones such as crying when the parks closed to the little moments with strangers on the street and with loved ones across the six-foot divide, Rebecca wondered, worried, and wrote it down.

Ontario's cottage country is littered with vanished villages, from railway whistle-stops to logging hamlets. Join Andrew Hind in exploring almost two dozen villages across Parry Sound District, northeast Ontario, Muskoka, Algonquin Park, Haliburton, and the Kawarthas.

"Famous for a Time celebrates Canadian athletes and sporting history. The cultural impact of sport on a nation is not slight. Famous for a Time explores a number of important, if not well remembered Canadian athletes and the sports they played to help explain the nation's complicated history, sporting and otherwise. It is an exploration that reveals the socio-cultural trends that have shaped Canada since Confederation. Through the prism of some exceptional athletes, the prevailing attitudes of many Canadians toward issues such as class, race, memory, manliness, femininity, and national identity are laid bare. Here, from the sidelines, we find how these attitudes have changed--or not, as the case may be--over time. From team sports such as lacrosse, baseball, and cricket, to Canada's cycling craze, track and field, and boxing, each chapter offers insight to an important aspect of the nation's narrative. The winners and losers of Canada's games simply mirror the larger questions that have faced Canadian society across three centuries."--

A young woman leaves the city for a remote mountain town to work in an immersive gold rush heritage site where she becomes embroiled in local culture while navigating her own place in the rapidly evolving twenty-first-century world.

"Sharp, funny, and poignant stories of what it's like to be a Brown woman working for change in a white world. I take a deep breath, check my lipstick one last time on my phone camera, and turn on my mic. It's about ten steps, two metres, and one lifetime to the front of the room. "Hello," I repeat. "My name is Annahid--pronounced Ah-nah-heed--and shit's about to get real!" In a series of deft interlocking stories Annahid Dashtgard shares her experiences searching for, and teaching about, belonging in our deeply divided world. A critically acclaimed, racialized immigrant writer and recognized inclusion leader, Dashtgard writes with wisdom, honesty, and a wry humour as she considers what it means to belong--to a country, in a marriage, in our own skin--and what it means when belonging is absent. Like the bones of the human body, these stories knit together a remarkable vision of what wholeness looks like as a racial outsider in a culture still dominated by whiteness. "--

From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto's condo culture, from Havana's haunted streets to Trinidad's calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, in settings where the veil between the living and the dead is obscured.

After Jack Letts went to Syria as an idealistic 18-year-old, his parents faced a savaging from the tabloid press. They sent him a small amount of money to try to help him leave and were arrested and convicted of supporting terrorism. Despite any evidence that Jack was a member of a terrorist group, he remains imprisoned in a Kurdish jail.

Does your financial advisor tell you that markets recover in the long run? Do they tell you not to worry? You need to heed that uneasy feeling of yours. As De Goey makes clear, advisors, like all of us, suffer from unconscious bias, but their sunny outlook is also the product of industry-wide groupthink.

The essential reference for writers in Canada describes standards for publishable writing, shows writers how to get there, and reveals how publishing in Canada works. Filled with Canadian references and examples, it supplies Canadian writers with the practical, insider information they need to refine their work and reach an audience.

While planning a tour on rugged Vancouver Island, Amanda Doucette befriends a fiercely private old artist whose traumatic, tangled past catches up with him when the body of a surfer washes up on a beach near his retreat.