Mike Filey is back again with another installment in the popular Toronto Sketches series. Mike’s nostalgic look at the city’s past combines legend, personal anecdotes, and photographs to chronicle the life of an ever-changing city.Among...
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Toronto Sun columnist Mike Filey is back with Toronto Sketches 8, the series that captures the people, politics, and architecture of Toronto’s past with photographs and anecdotes that will change the way you see the city forever. The...
- Author:Filey, MikeSummary:
Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands and front porches on September 16, 1973. Since that day more than three decades...
- Author:Filey, MikeSummary:
Mike Filey's "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper's most popular features. In Toronto Sketches Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at...
- Author:Taylor, DougSummary:
2017 Theatre Library Association Book Awards — Nominated, Richard Wall Memorial Award 2017 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated Slip once more into the back rows of the favourite movie theatres of your youth. “Brought Back to Thrill...
- Author:Ruprecht, TonySummary:
Toronto is truly a city of communities. Designed for tourists and for residents, Toronto’s Many Faces is the one and only guide to the multicultural character of the city, featuring profiles of more than 60 ethnic communities, including...
- Author:Héroux, Gaétan, Palmer, Bryan D.Summary:
Toronto's Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people's resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of...
- Author:Pai, Sandeep, Carr-Wilson, SavannahSummary:
Follow the journey of a Canadian and Indian couple, Savannah and Sandeep, as they travel the world to capture the human side of one of the biggest energy transitions of our times - the global shift from fossil fuels to renewables. In...
- Author:Harold, HughinaSummary:
Hughina Harold paints a powerful picture of a world that no longer exists in this compelling account of her experiences as a young teacher and nurse on the remote Broughton Archipelago on British Columbia’s coast in the 1930s. Fresh...
- Author:Maffin, Tod, Blevis, MarkSummary:
In today’s technology-led pursuit of efficiency, we’ve removed the humanity from business. Here’s how to correct that. For better or worse, digital business has fundamentally changed how organizations hire staff, market their services,...
- Author:Green, Ross Gordon, Healy, KearneySummary:
Does our current system for dealing with young offenders -- which focuses on punishment -- work? Not according to the authors of this compelling and thought-provoking book. It simply ensures that we jail more youth than any other...
- Author:Khordoc, CatherineSummary:
Tours et détours examine l'inscription du mythe de Babel dans la littérature contemporaine de langue française. Le mythe s'avère une source d'inspiration pour les auteurs examinés qui évoquent justement des phénomènes...
- Author:Hurtubise, PierreSummary:
Cet ouvrage propose une incursion dans le monde de la cour pontificale et des cours cardinalices au XVIe siècle. En quoi consistait ce monde, qui en faisait partie, comment y entrait-on, quels avantages pouvait-on espérer en tirer et...
- Author:Patrick CôtéSummary:
Un homme ordinaire doué d'une détermination extraordinaire! Loin de se contenter uniquement de raconter ses exploits personnels et professionnels, l'auteur nous fait des suggestions concrètes qu'il accompagne de ses...
- Author:Laurin, RoxaneSummary:
Roxane Laurin a grandi à Québec puis à Montréal. Elle vit maintenant à Mont-Saint-Hilaire au Canada, quand ce n’est pas en Floride aux États-Unis. Photographe, par la suite comédienne et mannequin, femme d’affaires depuis de nombreuses...
- Author:Compton, WaydeSummary:
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores how we might...
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New ways of thinking about literature and history have radically changed how we think about or even “define” a region like the Prairie West. In fact, the very concept of “defining” has come into question by new theoretical approaches...
- Author:Macdonald, CopthorneSummary:
Toward Wisdom addresses the nature of wisdom, humanity’s need for it, and ways and means of developing it. The situation the world faces today is extremely complex. Long-cherished values have begun to conflict with each other: material...
- Author:Powe, Bruce W.Summary:
B.W. Powe’s visionary work of political philosophy dares to re-imagine Canada. First conceived in 1993, this fully revised, expanded, updated edition, complete with an inspired new introduction that considers Canada in a post-9/11...
- Author:Carlson, Keith Thor, Lutz, John Sutton, Schaepe, David M., McHalsie, Naxaxalhts’i – Albert “Sonny”Summary:
"Towards a New Ethnohistory" engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of...
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