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History and Current Events October 2019
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Breakdown : The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada's Future
by Dennis Mcconaghy
The ongoing debate in Canada over the extraction of hydrocarbon resources and their transportation to markets exemplifies the country's political polarization. Breakdown explores these tensions through economic, environmental, and political perspectives.
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The darkest places : unsolved mysteries, true crimes, and harrowing disasters in the wild
by Outside Magazine
In the wilderness, something can go horribly awry at any moment. And sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction. In The Darkest Places, the editors of Outside chronicle mysterious disappearances, unsolved murders, and deadly disasters. The collection takes us to far-flung places no sane person would want to go. What ties it all together is the incredible voices of legendary Outside contributors who turn their subjects into literary gold and have helped to keep Outside in business for more than forty years.
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Flight of the Highlanders
by Ken McGoogan
Between the 1770s and the 1880s, tens of thousands of dispossessed and destitute Highlanders crossed the Atlantic --prototypes for the refugees we see arriving today from around the world. If today Canada is more welcoming to newcomers than most countries, it is at least partly because of the lingering influence of those unbreakable refugees. Together with their better-off brethren--the lawyers, educators, politicians and businessmen--those indomitable Highlanders were the making of Canada.
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The missing millionaire
by Katie Daubs
In December 1919, Ambrose Small, the mercurial owner of the Grand Opera House in Toronto, closed a deal to sell his network of Ontario theatres, deposited a million-dollar cheque in his bank account, and was never seen again. As weeks turned to years, the disappearance became the most "extraordinary unsolved mystery" of its time. Everything about the sensational case would be called into question in the decades to come, including the motivations of his inner circle, his enemies, and the police who followed the trail across the continent, looking for answers in asylums, theatres, and the Pacific Northwest.
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On fire : the (burning) case for a green new deal
by Naomi Klein
The best-selling author of The Shock Doctrine presents comprehensive, long-form essays linking current political and economic choices to environmental consequences, explaining how bold climate action can also provide a blueprint for a just and thriving society.
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Shakespeare's library : unlocking the greatest mystery in literature
by Stuart Kells
"Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens and partridge coops; and in the corridors of the mind. Yet no trace of the bard's manuscripts, books or letters has ever been found. The search for Shakespeare's library is much more than a treasure hunt. Knowing what the Bard read informs our reading of his work, and it offers insight into the mythos of Shakespeare and the debate around authorship. The library's fate has profound implications for literature, for national and cultural identity, and for the global Shakespeare industry. It bears on fundamental principles of art, identity, history, meaning and truth"
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They Call Me George : The Untold Story of the Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada
by Cecil Foster
Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada's black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger--yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards--a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense--the so-called Pullmen of the country's rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today.
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