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By Gretchen Roedde. 2018
In underserved areas of Canada, the communities themselves can be one of the strongest parts of the health care team.…
Dr. Gretchen Roedde, a physician who has been working in northern Ontario since the late 1970s, shows how local communities play a major role in responding to illness, birth, and death, making each more meaningful and bearable. She recounts stories from her long career, from working with a Cree community to develop a medical dictionary in their own language and training community-based health workers to delivering Amish babies in her house and conducting a house call with a priest to minister to a dying French-Canadian woman. In Roedde's stories, the boundaries between physician and community are redrawn, strengthening the capacity to care for those close by, in a hopeful and powerful example for the rest of the world. 2018.By Catherine Rondina. 2018
The son of an NHL draftee and the chief of the Ulkatcho First Nation, Carey Price got his start on…
skates as a toddler, first on a frozen creek and then on his father's homemade rink. The natural athlete went on to become one of the top amateur players in Canada in 2002, getting drafted fifth overall by the famed Montreal Canadiens three years later. Now one of the most recognizable figures in hockey, Carey credits his success to his community of Anahim Lake, British Columbia, where hard work and commitment often faced off against remoteness and cost. Throughout his incredible career, he's taken every opportunity possible to encourage all young people, especially those who share his indigenous background, to follow their dreams. Grades 6-9. 2018.By Erin Davis. 2019
On the morning of May 11, 2015, Erin Davis, one of Canada's most beloved radio personalities, suffered a devastating blow…
when her daughter Lauren, who had marked a joyous Mother's Day with her husband and young son only hours before, failed to awaken to her baby's cries. Thus began Erin's journey of grieving out loud with her family, friends and listeners, and of demonstrating by example how to pick up and keep going after suffering the worst loss a parent can endure. 2019.By Wab Kinew. 2018
By Jack Knox. 2018
From author and columnist Jack Knox comes a new collection of unforgettable true stories about the people who shape the…
unique culture of Vancouver Island and its surrounding areas. Full of humanity, heart, and sometimes humour, he celebrates ordinary people who have extraordinary stories to tell. From Alban Michael, the last person on Earth to speak Nuchatlaht, to Diana Deans, the Port Angeles customs inspector who caught the Millennium Bomber, to Victoria's Rudi Hoenson, who survived a Japanese labour camp and the atomic bomb at Nagasaki to become one of the happiest souls you'll ever meet, the people in this fascinating volume represent all walks of life. Elders, heroes, criminals, and oddballs are all worthy subjects in the world of Jack Knox. 2018.By Tracy Kasaboski. 2018
In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their…
cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London's "black holes," remains mired there for generations. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In the book Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors' path to Canada, using a single family's saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history--Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. 2018.By Dorothy Ellen Palmer. 2019
Born with congenital anomalies in both feet, then called birth defects, Dorothy Ellen Palmer was adopted as a toddler by…
a wounded 1950s family who had no idea how to handle the tangled complexities of adoption and disability. From repeated childhood surgeries to an activist awakening at university to decades as a feminist teacher, mom, improv coach and unionist, she tried to hide being different. But now, standing proud with her walker, she's sharing her journey. Navigating abandonment, abuse and ableism, she finds her birth parents and a new chosen family in the disability community. 2019.By Becky Livingston. 2018
In 2010 a brain tumour took the life of Becky Livingston's daughter, Rachel. Twenty-three years old and an avid traveller,…
it was her dying wish to keep traveling. Eighteen months later, still reeling from her loss, Livingston sets off overseas, alone, untethered, and determined to continue her daughter's journey. She felt certain that seeing the world through Rachel's eyes would bring her some peace. In her suitcase-Rachel's ashes, heavy but compact travelled with her. With no agenda or timeline, Livingston travelled the world for twenty-six months-Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, India, England, Ireland and North America-leaving her daughter's ashes wherever she went. It was a ritual. Merging her daughter's soul with the elements, Livingston gradually finds points of belonging for them both. 2018.By Brian Kennedy. 2007
Many of us grew up scoring a thousand glorious NHL goals in our minds, and on our streets and corner…
rinks. We won the Stanley Cup over and over in our imaginations. What happened to those childhood heroics? We packed them in a box with our hockey cards and forgot them. Growing Up Hockey uses the heartwarming and comical exploits of a house-league third-liner to prompt us to re-live our memories of hockey glory. It shows that for those who love it, the game is never far away. Bobby Hull, Frank Mahovlich, Wayne Gretzky they're all here. But equally large are the neighbourhood rink bullies, the Pee Wee league super-starts and the obsessed NHL aficionados. Together, they create a hockey myth as grand as ever existed and as unique as each of us. 2007.By Ian Hampton. 2018
By Anne Finger, Ann Finger. 1990
A disabled woman discusses her life as a polio survivor, abortion clinic worker, and mother. She recounts her difficult pregnancy,…
her planned home delivery, her emergency C-section in a hospital, and her adjustment to the possibility of having a disabled child. Strong languageBy Mark Arax. 1996
Years after the murder of his father in his Fresno nightclub, reporter Mark Arax investigates the unsolved crime. His probe…
leads him into a sordid world of drug dealing and official corruption to reveal the truth about his father and give insights into his own life. Strong language and violenceBy Allison Lawlor. 2017
One hundred years ago, on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc collided with the Belgian relief vessel…
Imo in the Halifax Harbour. At first, a small fire broke out aboard the Mont Blanc, which grew bigger crowds of people and emergency responders linded the shores of Halifax and Dartmouth to get a better look. Suddenly, the Mont Blanc's explosive cargo blew up, flattening homes and businesses, and triggering a tsunami. Amid the confusion and devastation that followed the blast was fourteen-year-old Barbara Orr, who had been walking from her neighbourhood in Richmond to a friend's house. Follow Barbara as she navigates post-explosion Halifax, learning about rescue efforts, the kindness of strangers, and the bravery of heroes like Vincent Coleman along the way. Part of the popular Compass series, this full-colour non-fiction book includes highlighted glossary terms, informative sidebars, over 50 illustrations and historical photographs, a detailed index, and recommended further reading. In commemoration of the tragic event's 100th anniversary, Broken Pieces is a great resource for young readers and educators.By Marguerite Blais. 2018
Ce livre décline plusieurs formes de proche aidance. Il veut conscientiser chaque être humain au fait que les besoins de…
notre société nécessitent une action sociale visant à développer l'entraide, la bienveillance, la compassion, l'altruisme. Pour en illustrer le propos, Marguerite Blais a interviewé vingt personnalités s'étant dédiées à un proche ou ayant reçu, elles-mêmes, de l'aide. Interviennent également des professionnels de la santé ou des responsables d'organismes. On y découvre des témoignages profonds et très touchantsBy Brigitte Racine. 2018
Pour vivre en harmonie avec son enfant, il est primordial d'établir avec lui un solide lien d'attachement et de confiance.…
Lorsque l'enfant se sent aimé, valorisé et sécurisé, lorsqu'il constate qu'on croit en lui et qu'on partage des moments de plaisir avec lui, il a envie de collaborer et de vivre une relation où chacun est attentif aux besoins de l'autre. Il ne faut pas chercher plus loin, c'est aussi simple que ça, c'est un jeu d'enfant. Tel est l'essentiel de cet ouvrage sur la discipline, que parents et éducateurs ont tout intérêt à lire. De façon plus précise, l'auteur définit ce qu'il faut entendre par une discipline incitative. Faisant appel à des moyens concrets et efficaces, elle met en garde les parents contre les effets négatifs des punitons et des récompenses. Elle souligne, par contre, les bienfaits de l'action de réparation qui fait appel à ce que l'enfant a de meilleur en lui et qui favorise par le fait même l'harmonie familialeAre boys and girls really different? Dr. Leonard Sax address issues like discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs,…
to show how boys and girls react in predictable and different ways.By Kerry McDonald. 2019
As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning…
the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives. In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn. They are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children's natural curiosity and exuberance and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public-school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centers to allow young people's innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schoolingBy Raffi. 1998
By Terry Roberts. 2019
In the world our children will face, neither static definitions of intelligence nor traditional ideas of training will be good…
enough. To prepare them, parents and educators need to reframe the question of how we educate and come up with an answer that uses different terms than we are accustomed to. If we want our children to thrive in the 21st century, these are the things we will need to prepare them to do: - Blend multiple intelligences in ways that might be described as synthetic or even symphonic. - Be ambitious and focused without being self-obsessed. - Value asynchrony and even seek it out. - Use their own marginality to generate novel perspective and new work. - Exhibit a steadfast resilience in all phases of life. - Measure themselves by what they produce over the course of a lifetime and not by any static notion of capacity or quotient. In the fractured environment of the 21st century, true success will be unique and unexpected? The result of a creative response to complex, shifting challenges. In light of that, how do we prepare? How do we educate ourselves and our children for life in 2050?By Adam Mansbach. 2019
Witty and truthful, this loving monologue outlines the fact that two is a million more kids than one-and as you…
probably know by now, you shouldn't read it to a child