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This series presents Renee Rosnes in conversation with nine Canadian "statesmen of jazz" -- internationally- recognised musicians who have been instrumental in laying the foundations of today's jazz scene in Canada. Each 52-minute portrait features documentary recordings and music spanning the artist's career. Host Renee Rosnes may be the most accomplished Canadian pianist since Oscar Peterson, widely acclaimed as a performer, composer and bandleader.

Tells the story of a tragic 19th-century shipwreck when a ship full of immigrants to the United States foundered off Cape Race, Newfoundland. The story is passed down through the generations of a family of German immigrants, as the descendents of the survivors travel to Newfoundland to track down the descendents of those who rescued their forebears.

Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on the British parliamentary system. But when the Newfoundland parliament prerogued its last session in December 1933, the country became the only nation in history to voluntarily abandon elective democracy. Hear 1930's St John's come alive with the sounds, voices, and dramatic recreations of the time.

Recreating the period March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland. By the 1930's Newfoundland had been a self-governing independent country for over a century, with an elected government modelled on the British parliamentary system. But when the Newfoundland parliament prerogued its last session in December 1933, the country became the only nation in history to voluntarily abandon elective democracy. Hear 1930's St John's come alive with the sounds, voices, and dramatic recreations of the time.

Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland-one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers-enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing; in a very real sense, their mutual and separate work helped bring "Canadian Literature" into being.

In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly. This important collective volume both witnesses the significance of the travelling exhibition Walking With Our Sisters and creates a model for antiviolence work from an Indigenous perspective. The contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all.

Elements of Indigenous Style provides guidelines to help writers, editors, and publishers produce material that reflects Indigenous people in an appropriate and respectful manner. Gregory Younging, a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, has been the managing editor of Theytus Books, the first Aboriginal-owned publishing house in Canada, for over 13 years. Elements of Indigenous Style evolved from the house style guide Gregory developed at Theytus in order to ensure content was consistent and respectful.

Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan's media theory and its adaptations in Canadian popular culture that popularized, even globalized, a Frankensteinian sense of technology.

Young Neil is a detailed chronological narrative of the early life of iconic Canadian musician Neil Young. Exploring a time in this Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s life that has yet to be documented with such depth of research, Young Neil is an exhaustive document of his “Sugar Mountain” years, from 1945 to 1966. From his birth in Toronto through his school years in Florida, Ontario, and Manitoba, the book examines the development of Young’s unique talent against a backdrop of shifting postwar values, a turbulent family history, and a musical revolution in the making.

When Eddie receives an early morning call for help, he catches the next plane to Britain. His friend, Dr. Peter Maurice, a renowned psychologist on a UK book tour with his wife Sylvia, has been accused of multiple, brutal murders and is about to be arrested.