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Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min

Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for CanadiansWe are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water - water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, best-selling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada’s water reserves, including long-outdated water laws, unmapped and unprotected groundwater reserves, agricultural pollution, industrial-waste dumping, boil-water advisories, and the effects of deforestation and climate change. This will be the defining issue of the coming decade, and most of us have no idea that it is on our very own doorstep.Barlow is one of the world’s foremost water activists and she has been on the front lines of the world’s water crises for the past 20 years. She has seen first-hand the scale of the water problems facing much of the world, but also many of the solutions that are being applied. In Boiling Point, she brings this wealth of experience and expertise home to craft a compelling blueprint for Canada’s water security. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly Fanson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ecwp/000547/bk_ecwp_000547_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Into the Labyrinth: The Making of a Modern-Day Theseus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 846min

Project Spinnaker was a joint Canada-US defense project conceived in the waning days of the Cold War. Spinnaker’s secret purpose was to reassert Canada’s Arctic sovereignty by providing the capability to monitor submarine traffic in Canadian Arctic waters. The star of Project Spinnaker was Theseus - a massive, Canadian-made, autonomous underwater vehicle designed for a single purpose: laying fiber-optic cable in ice-covered waters. More than 2,500 years after the mythical Greek hero Theseus ventured into the labyrinth on the island of Crete to slay the Minotaur, the submarine Theseus was launched into an undersea labyrinth with a strikingly similar goal: lay nearly 200 kilometers of fiber-optic cable on the seafloor of Canada’s Arctic, then turn around and follow it back out.With a foreword by Dr. James R. McFarlane, OC, CD, P.Eng., FCAE, and endorsements by several well-known experts in the sub-sea industry, Into the Labyrinth provides a fascinating glimpse into the sub-sea industry of the 1980s and ‘90s set against the backdrop of Canada’s stunning yet hostile High Arctic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bruce Butler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169773/bk_acx0_169773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Debt Sentence: How Canada's Student Loan System Is Failing Young People and the Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min

This audiobook exposes the exploitation and entrapment in Canada’s student loan system: a system that cripples or destroys the careers, health, and hopes of thousands, while lining the pockets of banks, collection agencies, and bureaucrats. It's a system where students are driven to abandon school for minimum-wage work, prostitution, or gambling to pay debts. Some have committed suicide to escape unrealistic payment schedules and conditions.This system harms not only students, but society. Graduates flee Canada with their knowledge and expertise to avoid bill collectors, “brain-draining” the economy. Perhaps, most alarming is the creation of a two-tiered education system favoring the wealthy and excluding the rest.This critique combines historical analysis, contemporary information, and students’ personal accounts to show how the system fails society and sentences Canada’s youth to a lifetime of debt. Most of what it shows to be true for Canada is also true in the US and the UK. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kendra Christie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199665/bk_acx0_199665_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min

While many volumes devoted to the punk and hardcore scenes in America grace bookstore shelves, Canada’s contributions to the genre remain largely unacknowledged. For the first time, the birth of Canadian punk - a transformative cultural force that spread across the country at the end of the 1970s - is captured between the pages of this important resource. Delving deeper than standard band biographies, this book articulates how the advent of punk reshaped the culture of cities across Canada, speeding along the creation of alternative means of cultural production, consumption, and distribution. Describing the origins of bands such as D.O.A., the Subhumans, the Viletones, and Teenage Head alongside lesser-known regional acts from all over Canada, it is the first published account of the first wave of punk in places like Regina, Ottawa, Halifax, and Victoria. Proudly staking Canada’s claim as the starting point for many internationally famous bands, this book unearths a forgotten musical and cultural history of drunks and miscreants, future country stars, and political strategists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kiff VandenHeuvel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008079/bk_adbl_008079_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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I'm Not Naked (anymore): Memoirs of a Contemporary Jezebel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min

Part creative memoir, part confessional, and wholly authentic, I'm Not Naked is raw, witty, and sometimes uproariously funny. Sonya is either slaying dragons or sprinkling fairy dust in each of these tragic and triumphant chapters. A great audiobook from one of Canada’s most celebrated and respected artists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sonya Côté. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141378/bk_acx0_141378_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sports Byline: Pierre Turgeon, Hörbuch, Digital, 26min

In this interview, Ron Barr talks to Pierre Turgeon, 19 season NHL center and the 34th player in NHL history to score 500 goals. Turgeon reminisces about growing up seven hours north of Montreal, learning English, and Canada’s 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships bench-clearing brawl with the Soviet Union. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Barr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/comm/000872/bk_comm_000872_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Across Canada by Story: A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 988min

More adventures from one of Canada’s premier editors and storytellersCanada 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 some of Canada’s finest minds and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers.Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played almost 100 times, in all 10 provinces, from coast to coast. As a literary tourist, he discovered even more about the land and its writers and harvested many more stories, from distant past and recent memory, to share.Now in Across Canada by Story, Gibson brings new stories about Robertson Davies, Jack Hodgins, W.O. Mitchell, Alistair MacLeod, and Alice Munro, and adds lively portraits of Al Purdy, Marshall McLuhan, Margaret Laurence, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Margaret Atwood, Wayne Johnston, Linwood Barclay, Michael Ondaatje, and many, many others. Whether fly fishing in Haida Gwaii or sailing off Labrador, Douglas Gibson is a first-rate ambassador for Canada and the power of great stories. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas Gibson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ecwp/000589/bk_ecwp_000589_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Land God Gave to Cain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min

When a British radio operator suddenly dies after he intercepts a mysterious SOS from the leader of an expedition into Canada’s northern frontier, his son Ian suspects the two events are connected. To find the truth, Ian makes a daring journey to the frontier where he learns a shocking secret that involves three generations of his family. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Sinclair. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005337/bk_reco_005337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Canada’s Most Haunted 3: Paranormal Terror in North America, Hörbuch, Digital, 58min

Paranormal terror comes in all shapes and sizes; including ghostly apparitions, disembodied voices, and even extraterrestrial beings. The skies above Falcon Lake, Manitoba have been plagued for decades with sightings of flying objects and unexplained streaks of light. A geologist saw a large glowing object descend, and as he moved closer he could see and hear strange beings. When the craft suddenly left, the man had large circular burn marks all over his chest. The Blue Ghost Tunnel running beneath the Weland Canal in St. Catherine's, Ontario, was once the scene of a fatal train wreck. Visitors to this paranormal hot spot can witness misty spirits, unexplainable lights, and a variety of spine-tingling sounds. An innocent farmhand accused of murdering his lover's husband was hanged at the Charlotte County Gaol. For 100 years thereafter, guards and inmates alike claimed to have heard his voice echoing through the cell blocks, proclaiming his innocence. Prepare for an exciting thrill ride to some of Canada's most haunted locations. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Oliver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/real/000454/rt_real_000454_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Distilled: A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball, and Philanthropy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 637min

While much has been written about his father, Sam, a titan of industry, there is no public record of Charles Bronfman’s thoughts on his own life, family, career and his significant accomplishments in sport and philanthropy. Distilled does just that, chronicling key events in the life of the heir to one of Canada’s great fortunes. Born in 1931 to the fabulously wealthy Bronfmans, Charles grew up in a 20-room mansion with many staff. Via their control of the distilling giant Seagram, the Bronfman family dominated the liquor business with brands such as Crown Royal, V.O., and Chivas Regal. By the 1980s, Seagram was also the biggest shareholder of DuPont and by the 1990s, the family’s wealth was in the billions, culminating in the $35-billion sale of Seagram to France’s Vivendi, which turned into a financial and family disaster. In Distilled, Charles reflects on all of it - his relationship with his parents, his brother Edgar, working in the family business, landing Canada’s first big league baseball franchise (the Montreal Expos), leading a philanthropic life by promoting Canadian identity through Heritage Minutes and supporting Israel through countless innovative initiatives including the globally respected Birthright Israel - and to how the Bronfman family splintered over the sale of Seagram. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Howard Green. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/034074/bk_adbl_034074_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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