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Energy commentator Dennis McConaghy takes an in-depth look at the public policies surrounding decarbonization in Canada and the costs and sacrifices it will take to get to net zero. He then lays out a more balanced approach that maximizes global human welfare while still using hydrocarbons optimally.

A comprehensive new look at the life and times of Canada's fifth - and least understood - prime minister, including the January 1896 coup where seven of Bowell's cabinet ministers forced his resignation so Sir Charles Tupper could lead the Conservatives into the ill-fated June 1896 election.

The Mullah lives in isolation in an Afghan village with the students of his madrassa. When one of them is beaten by bandits, he feels compelled to act, starting a chain of events that will change the balance of power in his country and send shock waves through history.

En tant que fondation de l'Ordre de Saint-Jean, Ambulance Saint-Jean assure la prestation de cours de secourisme au Canada depuis maintenant 125 ans.

Donald Smith, known to most Canadians as Lord Strathcona, was an adventurer who made his fortune building railroads, including the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Over the past fifty years more than 6,000 Canadians have been appointed to the Order of Canada. This illustrated history traces the Order's origins, along the way explaining how the merit-based honour got its familiar snowflake insignia. Replete with gorgeous illustrations, this book provides an accessible window into our national honour.

A hilarious and strangely insightful meditation on the futility of Leafs fandom ... a self-help book for recovering Toronto hockey fans wherever they may live. Longtime Leafs fan and "de-motivational guru" Christopher Gudgeon sets out to help fellow addicts as they stick with their struggling team through thin and thinner.

In 1857 a Toronto-to-Hamilton train crashed on the Desjardins Canal bridge. Sixty people died, making it one of the worst railway disasters in North America. These are the stories of those associated with the bridge's construction and those who perished in the accident, capturing the ebullient economic confidence of pre-Confederation Canada.

Love, marriage, baby. Michelle Parise bought into the dream. But one day, her husband drops The Bomb and she's suddenly alone. Michelle documents from falling in love to the fallout of infidelity and everything messy in between, finally finding life and hope in the aftermath.

A fascinating, personal story of the adventures, romance, and recovery of renowned classical guitarist Liona Boyd. After her divorce and departure from Beverly Hills, Boyd reinvented her career, became a singer-songwriter and the pen pal of Prince Philip, and turned a devastating diagnosis into a new chapter in her life and career.

In 1885 Yorkshire, sisters are on trial for their lives after being accused of murdering an illegitimate toddler. Today, sisters Sheelagh and Penny have discovered their then nine-year-old grandmother was a witness.

When his mother dies after a lifetime of struggle, Sebastien is obsessed with finding the father he's never met - the commanding officer of a luxury liner. Posing as a member of the ship's crew, Sebastien becomes entangled in a revolt, leading him to uncover a disturbing secret about his identity.

Edward Mallandaine had just turned 18 when he left his home to help the Canadian militia fight Louis Riel. He crossed the province as a Royal Mail carrier, following the unfinished stretches of railway before ending up in Craigellachie just in time for the driving of the last spike. To prove it, he thrust himself into the historical photograph.

During the 1920s, Ben Kerr was known as the King of the Rumrunners and was put at the top of the most wanted list by the U.S. Coast Guard.

These are collections of Mike Fileys best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, "The Way We Were."

Isaac Sullivan is a plumber but believes he has the intellect and skill to be a surgeon. For the past decade, he has absorbed every medical text available and has even performed surgeries on wildlife, preparing to someday attend university. Finally, an uncomfortable encounter causes him to apply as an undergraduate for the first time.

Paula Mallea sets out suggestions for a complete overhaul of Canada's incarceration model of criminal justice. In its current state, incarceration promotes recidivism and jeopardizes public safety, is highly discriminatory, and is ruinously expensive.

Holly Martin's RCMP detachment on Vancouver Island is rocked by an attack on a woman camping alone. At another beach a girl is garrotted. The case breaks open when a third woman is raped and gives a description of the assailant.

On April 29, 2011, Prince William of Wales married Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London. The newlyweds' first royal tour took place in Canada from June 30 to July 8. People across the country rejoiced with the couple as they made their way through a land that holds special significance for the Royal Family.

The Canadian Federal Election of 2011 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters, written by leading academics, examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties.

Canada's first Native writer, Pauline Johnson, exemplified the duality of culture in early Canada through her half-Mohawk, half-English heritage. Her unique poetry and presention style remain a legend in Canadian literary history.

With 150 archival plans, photographs, and illustrations, Mark Osbaldeston explores 200 years of significant but unrealized building, planning, and transit schemes in Hamilton. Learn about the escarpment amphitheatre, the Gage Avenue tunnel, the King's Forest Zoo, and the downtown planetarium, none of which ever came to fruition.