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An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives.

In Anne Lamott's new book, she confronts the harsh truth that many of us grapple with every day: How can we recapture the confidence we once had in the world and in the future as we stumble th

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Bird by Bird comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it.

From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace.

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an honest, funny book about how to make sense of life's chaos. What do we do when life lurches out of balance?

In 1880, two Inuit families from Labrador in northern Canada were exhibited in European zoos. Spectators flocked to the zoo exhibit expecting to see "exotics" from some "primitive race".

A 2-hour series about the tradition of Christmas mummering Long before Santa, Bing Crosby and the Mattel Toy Company stole the occasion, the Winter Solstice was celebrated with seasonal rituals lik

May 1940. Britain is losing the war. Churchill is desperate for bombers. Aircraft deliveries from U.S. factories are being ravaged by German U-Boats at sea.

This two-hour series is a revealing personal and professional portrait of Canadian singer and composer Joni Mitchell.

This two-hour series is a revealing personal and professional portrait of Canadian singer and composer Joni Mitchell.

Joelle Pouliot was a nurse with a comfortable life in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Then she volunteered for a 6-week stint with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders.

The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla groups.

On the anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, a smoking-hot blues guitarist in a small Canadian city announces a tribute concert in a local tavern.

The Monarch butterfly is the marathon runner of the insect world.