Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Across Canada by Story
By Douglas Gibson
More adventures from one of Canada’s premier editors and storytellers
Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of ... Read more
Back Roads
By Ted Ferguson
After collapsing from stress in a posh Vancouver restaurant, Ted Ferguson decides to abandon his workaholic lifestyle and move his family to the secluded back roads of Northern Alberta, where electricity and indoor plumbing are a luxury and surviving another winter is a blessing. ... Read more
Canada's Newspaper Legend
By Richard MacFarlane
Amid the "newspaper wars" of the ’90s, we’ve been witness to an explosion of electronic news through cable television and the Internet. But less than a generation ago, newspapers were the principal sources of the late-breaking story. Breaking that story entailed hard-nosed ... Read more
Every Wolf's Howl
By Barry Grills
This is the story of Barry and Lupus. Barry, an exhausted newspaper owner physically and economically on the ropes, meets Lupus, a wolf-German Shepherd cross, at an animal shelter. Despite a nagging belief that he cannot take responsibility for anything or anyone else, Barry ... Read more
Hello, Friends!
By Jerry Howarth
An honest memoir about life, family, and baseball from the longtime, legendary Toronto Blue Jays radio broadcaster
For 36 years, Jerry Howarth ushered in eternal hope each spring and thrived in the drive of each fall as the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays. In 1982, the lifelong ... Read more
Larkspur Press
Compiled by Gabrielle Fox
This book celebrates one of the great twentieth-century American private presses, Gray Zeitz’s Larkspur Press. After discovering letterpress printing under the mentorship of Carolyn Hammer at the University of Kentucky, Zeitz established his own press in the rural village ... Read more
No Heavy Lifting
By Rob Simpson
Foreword by John Shannon
Join Rob Simpson on a dozen once-in-a-lifetime adventures in the world of international media
Though he’s now known to hockey fans across North America for his NHL commentary and as co-host of the Stellick and Simmer SiriusXM radio show, Rob Simpson didn’t start his radio ... Read more
No Place for a Woman
By Antony Berger
As a young woman, the late Ella Manuel left the busy shipping community of Lewisporte, Newfoundland, for the wider world in the 1920s, but eventually returned to the island, as a single mother, to settle in Bonne Bay. An accomplished writer, broadcaster, journalist, advocate ... Read more
Out of the Blue
By Jan Wong
Out of the Blue is the surreal, wrenching, sometimes hilarious, and ultimately triumphant story of one woman’s struggle to come to terms with depression.
At the height of her career in journalism, Jan Wong’s world came crashing down. A story she wrote on a school shooting ... Read more
Peter Gzowski
By Marco Adria
Peter Gzowski is Canada`s best-known and most-adored radio personality. Marco Adria traces Gzowski`s childhood in Galt, his unusual family history, and his early days at Maclean`s, ultimately focusing on Gzowski`s radio career. How does Morningside choose its guests? What`s ... Read more