Posts Tagged ‘canadian’
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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
“The ultimate focus of the rest of my life is to eradicate the use of child soldiers and to eliminate even the thought of the use of children as instruments of war.” –Roméo Dallaire In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that requires negligible technology, is simple to sustain, has…
Read MoreRisky Business- David Stanley McRobert
This guide reviews the federal and provincial laws, regulations and policies that govern the proper use, management, containment/removal, transport and disposal of asbestos and asbestos waste in Ontario. It also outlines the public’s right to have input on these activities through the avenues provided by various laws including the Environmental Protection Act, the Occupational Health…
Read MoreArctic Sovereignty Initiaves in the Canadian North – McRobert
My Municipal Recycling Program Made me Fat and Sick- McRobert
“This book explains the rapid evolution of municipal recycling programs in Ontario between 1982 and 2011 and their social and environmental costs. Pressure to develop these programs began to take root in the early 1970s when concerns about litter problems were attracting the public?s attention” –Back cover.
Read MoreOne Day in August
One of the most important Canadian non-fiction books we have published: the groundbreaking, thrilling, ultra-secret story behind one of WWII’s most enduring mysteries, which fundamentally changes our understanding of this sorrowful event in Canada’s past. The Dieppe Raid–the darkest day in Canadian military history–has been one of the most perplexing mysteries of WWII, when almost…
Read MoreOne Soldier
Dillon Hillier, a corporal with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, returned home from a tour in Afghanistan and started up a normal life. But when ISIS insurgents began attacking local populations in Iraq and elsewhere, Hillier, a long-time soldier, felt he had to join in the action, so he sold his truck, lied to…
Read MoreIndian Horse
Winner of the Canada Reads People’s Choice award and the First Nations Communities Reads program and short-listed for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. A Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2012 Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks…
Read MoreThe Right to be Cold
Now in paperback, one of Canada’s most passionate environmental and human rights activists addresses the global threat of climate change from the intimate perspective of her own Arctic childhood The Arctic ice is receding each year, but just as irreplaceable is the culture, the wisdom that has allowed the Inuit to thrive in the Far…
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