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