James Lorimer Company Ltd Publishers: 361 books
by Aya Tsintziras
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Raine has a family, good grades, best friends, and a boyfriend who loves her. But then anorexia takes over, and her life spirals out of control. Her efforts to hide her condition are finished when she collapses at a school dance. Although she's whisked away to treatment, Raine isn't ready to accept...
Rogue in Power
Why Stephen Harper is Remaking Canada by Stealth
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Canada has always been known as a good place to live: a tolderant, prosperous, stable country that treats its citizens fairly and protects the weakest in society. Yet during the past seven years, it has started to change into a harder, more mean-spirited place. What is going on?
According to...
Harperism
How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Margaret Thatcher transformed British political life forever. So did Ronald Reagan in the United States. Now Canada has experienced a similar, dramatic shift to a new kind of politics, which author Donald Gustein terms Harperism. Among its key tenets:
A weakened labour movement--and preferably...
Canada after Harper
His ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has gone -- what has already been done, and what the consequences will be in the future.
This book brings...
Sweethearts
The Builders, the Mob and the Men
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments.
With the rapidly growing population, there was huge demand for new housing. Toronto needed apartments,...
by Beatrice Vandervelde
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Fast-paced sports action novels that get kids reading.
Tori is staying with family near Toronto while her parents deal with troubles back home. To keep a sense of normalcy, this talented hockey player joins the Rangers -- the worst team in the league. The only girl on her team, Tori, befriends...
The Canadian Fuhrer
The Life of Adrien Arcand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Canadian Fuhrer is the story the emergence of prominent fascist leader Adrien Arcand and a dark chapter in Canada's past.
During the 1930s, when the misery of hunger, unemployment and the threat of war shadowed life for many, Canadians were drawn to a wide range of new political ideas....
Hey Malarek!
The True Story of a Street Kid Who Made It
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Victor Malarek is known to most Canadians as a tough investigative journalist who is willing to delve into stories revealing the worst side of human nature. His previous books investigate the clients of prostitutes, and the women who break the hearts of Canadians whom they marry only to gain citizenship.
In...
Gay Marriage
The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada.
Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage.
As a political correspondent for The Canadian Press, Sylvain Larocque had a front-row seat for this battle in the fight for gay rights in Canada....
Ontario Murders
Mysteries, Scandals, and Dangerous Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
"From an early age, lying came easily to her. Everything she did was a performance, a role she played to create an illusion." - From the story of Evelyn Dick. Six chilling stories of notorious Ontario murders are recounted in this spine-tingling collection. From the pretty but dangerous...
by Camilla Reghelini Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
David dreams of soccer glory, and is willing to suffer hours of monotonous practice drills to achieve it. His asthma might slow him down a little, but he works every day to be a better player.
The coach of his Winnipeg team has a different formula for success: play the best players, and let...
Power Trap
How fear and loathing between New Democrats and Liberals keep Stephen Harper in power--and what can be done about it
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
In 2011 the Harper Conservatives won a majority government with a minority of votes. If the opposition parties were willing to work together, they would have an excellent chance of defeating the Conservatives in the next election. Yet a merger doesn't seem to be in the cards any time soon.
In...
The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early...
Oil's Deep State
How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming?
Most of the writing on global warming is by scientists, academics, environmentalists, and journalists....