Irving Blitzer disgraced himself when putting extra weights into his team's bob in the Olympics, resulting in his gold medal being taken away from him. Years later, Derice Bannock, son to a former friend of Irv, fails to qualify for the 100-yard sprint for the Olympics due to a s...
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Gallagher, Michael
Includes: Margaret Atwood; Farley Mowat; Alice Munro; Robert Munsch; Mordecai Richler; Carol Shields; Pierre Berton; Douglas Cooper; Douglas Coupland; Timothy Findley; Anne Hebert; Tomson Highway; Rita Joe; W.P. Kinsella; Joy Kogawa; Jean Little; Ann-Marie MacDonald; W. O. Mitche...
"Svelte and supple as unleavened bread, Shlepping the Exile rends the shmaltz from Jewish fiction and replaces it with a pound of real flesh. It's the story of Yoine Levkes, a hassidic boy of the Canadian prairies, his refugee parents, and the Jewish community of Coalbanks, Alber...
"An illuminating look at the transatlantic, transgender community that shaped the history and study of sexuality. From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the histor...
Inspired by true events, this is a feel good story about Michael Eddie Edwards an unlikely but courageous British ski jumper who never stopped believing in himself even as an entire nation was counting him out.
"Set during the height of the First World War, PASSCHENDAELE tells the story of Sergeant Michael Dunne (Paul Gross), a soldier who is brutally wounded in France and returns to Calgary emotionally and physically scarred. While in the military hospital in Calgary, he meets Sarah (C...
Calgary's Infantry Regiment is a comprehensive history of the Calgary Highlanders on the occasion of the regiment's 100 years of service under that name. This richly illustrated volume surveys the regiment's history dating back to the creation of the 103rd Regiment, Calgary Rifle...
"'Environment in the Courtroom' provides extensive insight into Canadian environmental law. Covering key environmental concepts and the unique nature of environmental damage, environmental prosecutions, sentencing and environmental offences, evidentiary issues in environmental pr...
Inspired by true events, it is a feel-good story about Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself, even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on...
Set during the height of the First World War, Passchendaele tells the story of Sergeant Michael Dunne, a soldier who is brutally wounded in France and returns to Calgary emotionally and physically scarred.
Inside the Hothouse 3 takes a playful look into the creation process and frenzy behind the third iteration of the NFB Animation Hothouse. This is a zippy, "MTV-ready" mini-documentary, reflective of the youthful iconoclasm of the six emerging filmmakers and Jason Lee, the documen...