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"Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician – until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic.

""Charlie D is back doing his late-night radio call-in show. It's Halloween—The Day of the Dead. Not a day filled with good memories for Charlie, but the show must go on.

"Margaret Thatcher transformed British political life. So did Ronald Reagan in the United States.

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Four nineteenth century women, Florence Agassiz, Eleanor Fellows, Violet Sillitoe and Helen Kate Woods lived and traveled in British Columbia very much as a minority - white and female.

In 1918, the steamer Princess Sophia left Alaska for Vancouver, but during a storm she ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef - there were no survivors.

Twelve dazzling stories offer a rare glimpse of a compelling cast of unlikely heroes, each valiant in the face of adversity, or humbled in the presence of forces beyond their control.

St. Pierre writes in favour of war, lying, a Canadian monarchy, teenaged sex, Henry Ford, - and against righteous men, ecologists and sanitized language.

When a freighter smuggling illegal immigrants sinks, Tofino coroner Elias McCann finds himself at the heart of a mystery.

Dozens of "Overlander's" left their wives and families behind as they set out toward a brighter future.

Using enlightening case studies and vignettes drawn from his two decades as a family practitioner and palliative care specialist, Dr.