Co-authors Tony Penikett (left) and John Calvert celebrating their book, "35 Accords."
Having little money for big wage increases, Glen Clark’s government turned to better working environments including long-term disability provisions, health & safety measures, better pensions and benefits, and workload management. FULL STORY
“It’s okay if people don’t know my name, or just call me ‘The Sign Guy.’ In the early days, on… FULL STORY
“I [Harry] live with with my grandmother, Elinor. She thinks I cook so much because I’m lonely. Elinor says the… FULL STORY
“They’ll get that we [Canadians] have a great sense of humour, can laugh at ourselves and are polite and reserved… FULL STORY
“In 1944, Rudi Vrba escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau and saved hundreds of thousands of lives by telling the truth about what… FULL STORY
“[After getting elected in 2017, Horgan’s NDP] got busy: no more Medical Services Plan premiums, improved disability assistance rates, tuition… FULL STORY
“Canadian union activists live by the principle that an injury to one is an injury to all. It’s more than… FULL STORY
“Once British Columbians see the bigger picture about the fish community in the Strait of Georgia they will want to… FULL STORY
“In 1906, 100 books were deposited into a second-floor room in the Watts Block, right above Mighton’s Tobacco Store (currently… FULL STORY
“Science is an art, and we are complex human beings and emotional beings. I wrote The Hunger Code to bridge… FULL STORY
“Manny Meyer, an aspiring musician whose father had a career in the military, could not see the point of the… FULL STORY
“Marketed as genre-defying, Julian NoiseCat weaves memoir, traditional stories and reportage into an unconventional whole. I found myself reading it… FULL STORY
“By 1957, a Maclean’s magazine article on ‘The Scramble for the Teen-Age Dollar’ explained that retailers and advertisers were ‘out-hustling… FULL STORY
“When I am in an unusual or uncertain situation, I am supremely present. All other thoughts drop away—only the present… FULL STORY
“But I was not prepared for what I saw. There were chain-link fences and signs that read: Any person who… FULL STORY
“I believed with every fibre of my being that Medicare was a sacred trust, that we couldn’t go back to… FULL STORY
“Each new generation brings fresh challenges the last one didn’t see, demanding new looks at new concerns. Cell phones, new… FULL STORY
“One workday [Colin] meets a solitary being, ‘tall and cadaverous and dressed in a three-piece suit the colour of dried… FULL STORY
“[The story] is a historical artefact centred on a pivotal year in Canadian history and in a broader transformative decade,… FULL STORY
“[Daniel] Craig’s greatest legacy may be that he introduced journalistic standards: he wanted fact-based, objective reporting.”—reviewer, Mark Forsythe on a… FULL STORY
