And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families explores the role of the known donor in the queer family structure: what happens when would-be dyke moms or gay dads ask a friend or acquaintance to donate sperm or an egg, or to act as a surrogate? A quirky, funny, and occasionally heartbreaking collection of personal essays, this book offers an intimate look at the relative risks and unexpected rewards of queer, do-it-yourself baby-making, and the ways in which families are re-made in the process. With no clear models to follow, these new versions of the queer family are creating their own, addressing questions such as: What's the difference between being a donor and being a parent? What happens to non-biological parents when a known donor is also part of the picture? When and how does biology count-or does it? Why do parents choose known donors, and what happens if things get ugly? And what does all this mean for queer families already facing extraordinary social pressures? The contributors-donors, biological and non-bio parents, and their children-offer provocative, nuanced insights into what it means to be or use a known donor and how queer families are being reconceived to include new roles, new rules, and kinship ties that transcend biology.

In 1996, Sheldon Kennedy rocked the insular world of Canadian hockey by announcing that his former minor-league coach, Graham James-the Hockey News 1989 Man of the Year-had sexually abused him more than 300 times. The media portrayed Kennedy as a hero for breaking the code of silence in professional hockey and bringing James to justice. The heroic myth intensified in 1998 when Kennedy announced that he was going to in-line skate from Newfoundland to British Columbia to raise awareness of sexual abuse. The skate raised over $1 million for Canadian Red Cross sexual abuse programs, and Kennedy settled in Calgary with his wife and young daughter. Anyone who has followed hockey is familiar with the story of ex-NHL player Sheldon Kennedy. As one of the most promising hockey talents to emerge from the Canadian minor leagues in the last two decades, Kennedy was destined for hockey greatness. But after he was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in 1988, he attracted more attention for his off-ice antics than for his contributions to the score sheet. Plagued by rumours of drug and alcohol abuse and a string of injuries, Kennedy drifted from team to team. The happy ending promised by the headlines never materialized. Still haunted by the demons of sexual abuse, Kennedy's life spiralled out of control. He has come forward to tell his story, and the story of coach Graham James, who eventually was released from prison and coached hockey in Europe.

Queer Returns returns us to the scene of multiculturalism, diaspora, and queer through the lens of Black expression, identity, and the political. The essays question what it means to live in a multicultural society, how diaspora impacts identity and culture, and how the categories of queer and Black and Black queer complicate the political claims of multiculturalism, diaspora, and queer politics. These essays return us to foundational assumptions, claims, and positions that require new questions without dogmatic answers.

Life is about getting what you want, and sales skills can improve your life. In Life Is Sales, Gary Ford and Connie Bird share their unique perspective on success. Most people resist spelling out what they want, but those who know what they want and know how to ask for it are far more successful in all aspects of life. This book highlights the psychology behind getting people to do what you want and to say yes by using concrete day-to-day examples and making suggestions that will change your life.
Discover the keys to creating the winning attitude that delivers success. Chapters cover such areas as reciprocity, networking, how to overcome failure, how to make powerful requests, and how to gain an edge in sales conversations.
Gary Ford is a graduate of the University of Waterloo with a degree in psychology. He has held a series of executive positions with a major financial institution and most recently as vice-president sales and marketing of a national insurer. Ford is a frequent speaker to large groups in the financial services business in Canada and the United States on sales skills and influence techniques. He is the co-author of The Canadian Guide to Protecting Yourself Against Identity Theft and Other Fraud.

Worried you won't have enough money in retirement? Concerned about losing your work identity? Envisioning where you will live after you leave work? Wondering how your relationships will change with your family, friends, and partner? Whether you are considering retirement planning or are already retired, Strategies for Retiring Right! will help you build a personal retirement plan to enhance your life after work. With its profound insights, lessons from true stories, and self-reflective exercises, it provides a pathway for you to make a successful transition from work to retirement. Strategies for Retiring Right! contains proven strategies for retirement success, including creating a realistic vision, achieving a balanced lifestyle, deciding whether to sell or remain in your current home, enhancing relationships with your loved ones, and calculating how much money you'll need to live comfortably. Reading this book is your first step towards planning and achieving a happy and stimulating retirement.

Have you ever been in a van full of girls? All the girls are alive and they're happy. You're all heading off to do something whimsical and flirty and you're maybe a little bit drunk. You're going to see a Beach Boys tribute band. You're going to the casino to bet it all on red. You're going to a séance that you just know is going to end in skinny-dipping. Something like that. A Van Full of Girls is a collection of short, dizzy, funny things. It's zippy and unpredictable, like a mongoose, but it's dead sexy. You will want to take Polaroids of each precious little missive contained within and then tape each one to your fridge. You will want to give this book to somebody you need to love you.

With the world slipping into recession, company downsizing, restructuring, reorganizing, and retrenching are becoming everyday occurrences. Why Me? And No Gold Watch! concerns job loss and the prospect of retiring earlier than expected. Introducing Sally McBride, a fifty-seven-year-old middle manager who is terminated due to her company's downsizing actions. Sally's dilemma is whether to seek a new position or retire. In her journey for answers, she turns to friends and acquaintances for help and direction. Why Me? And No Gold Watch! offers proven strategies for retirement success. Also included are lessons from true stories, self-reflection exercises, and model retirement visions and plans, all designed to provide a pathway for the reader to make a successful transition from work to retirement.

Proverbial Leadership provides a compelling narrative that emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between leadership and wisdom. It connects the wisdom found in proverbial expressions with the wisdom needed in leadership. Proverbial Leadership paints a clear picture of the dynamism and fluidity that proverbial leadership can offer.

Dr. Darlington Akaiso aims to cut through the ambiguity and confusion of modern leadership to show us that leadership should be designed by nature and leaders should understand that it is through wisdom that complex and challenging situations are understood.

With the rise in leadership corruption in the modern age, wisdom has been relegated to an afterthought; money and gain are the goals of modern leaders, leaving behind their followers.

Many proverbs are sourced from everyday experiences; they are universal, cutting across races, ethnic lines, cultures, religions, traditions, and languages. In this connection, proverbs could be seen as the necessary ingredient of natural leadership, they are the apparatuses that can help mankind learn and grow.

Proverbial Leadership aims to bring leadership training back to its roots, to use proverbs and nature itself as the guiding light in leadership. In this, we can grow to be perfectly responsive to the demands of the ever-changing world. Proverbial Leadership will continue to prosper against the scientific or technological because in any given situation, it remains adaptable, resilient, ceaseless and permanent. Considering its ties to nature, Proverbial Leadership never vanishes.

Rivers are often used in mythology to represent boundaries; to cross the river is to transform. The poems in River Revery reflect the river Thames as it winds through the city of London, Ontario. Because the Thames forks into two streams at the city's core, it was called Askunessippi, the antlered river, by the original Algonquin inhabitants. For Indigenous communities, it is Deshkan Ziibiing. In re-naming the river the Thames, English settlers colonized forbidding new territory as an imitation of 'home, ' rather than embracing the vibrancy of the river as it is. A distillation of ecological concern is a current necessity in River Revery. Such inspiration in poetry is one source for right action since the Thames waters our gardens, real and imaginary.

Tax Tips and Tax Shelters for Canadians provides individuals and business owners with effective tax-planning strategies designed to reduce taxable income, generate tax deductions, increase tax refunds, increase potential investment returns, defer tax, increase wealth, and minimize probate and estate taxes. When implemented properly the strategies discussed in this book are legitimate tax-planning strategies recognized by many financial planners, financial experts, chartered accountants, actuaries, financial commentators, tax lawyers, and the Canada Revenue Agency. Although RRSPs are the most popular tax shelter in this country, individuals and business owners are not taking advantage of many simple products, services, and structures that can provide immediate tax relief and benefits.

Tom Cull's debut collection is equal parts zoo, funhouse, and curio cabinet. A mouthy badger tells off a search committee, a family of beavers conspires to commit murder, a celebrity seal slips his cage. In these poems, human and animal spaces overlap, often marking moments of transgression, rebellion, escape, and capture. Home and habitat are flooded with invasive species, cute animal videos, and rising tides.

In this book you will discover a hearing man with a cochlear implant who suddenly becomes alarmingly insane with the growing noise inside his ear, learn what really happens when a deaf man gets a late night call from his TDD machine, and meet an elderly couple rescuing a diminutive alien trapped in a pond at the backwoods of Nova Scotia. Plus fifteen other tales by the deaf author.

Do you have a name such as Willow, River, Oak, or Sunshine? Have you ever lived in a commune, or done yoga naked with your family? If yes, then you are an Adult Child of Hippies (ACOH). ACOHs grew up in extreme conditions: eating sprouts, and lugging herbal tea to school in their Thermoses (if they were fortunate enough to make it to school). ACOHs were born and brought up mostly in the 70s and 80s. As their parents reveled in the counterculture, their children struggled with basic hygiene, not to mention broader social acceptance. Until now, this group has not been represented in the media. Content with leaving the past in the past, ACOHs have successfully blended into the mainstream; but the memories and photos persist. Finally, Willow Yamauchi has brought her generational subculture into the light. We no longer need to feel alone or ashamed of our bizarre heritage. Take the test, see the pictures, and stand up tall! Say it: I am an Adult Child of Hippies...and I am proud.

The purposes of the book are severalfold. One is to explain the fundamental nature of quantum Energy, its many strange effects and applications, and its ultimate relationship to - believe it or not - the mind. The second is to offer a complete description of a viable nuclear fusion generator and how a fusion process (the energy of the stars) may be initiated, contained, sustained, and controlled using a new application of electro-dynamics, - and furthermore, how practical energy may be extracted directly from this process. It is also explained why the fantastically expensive and elaborate methods of laboratory nuclear fusion as presently conceived of by physicists has not worked, does not work, and cannot work. The real solution is as simple as it is powerful.

Welcome to our kitchens in London's historic core. Growing and preparing food has been a Woodfield preoccupation since the founding of this city. We can still walk or bicycle to farmers' markets, independent grocers and vegetable gardening plots. More than a collection of favourite recipes, Woodfield Cooks is a biographical cookbook that brings the people of this downtown community to life. This collection offers an alphabetical cornucopia - from apple soup to zucchini gratin. Our culinary heritage, rooted in traditions, has grown into an international smorgasbord of global dishes. We celebrate our differences in the exciting flavours of the world's cuisines. Woodfielders delight in sharing food with others. Whether it is an informal meal with friends, a casserole carried to a neighbour in need, a hot meal for the homeless or a holiday banquet, you'll find recipes for all of these in a book that COOKS.

Andrew Szymanski's debut fiction collection takes on subjects such as idealized love in an illogical world, ruminations on the realities of failed relationships, and the inability to make meaningful connections. In these stories, a man recruits a sexual companion to chase his lost lover across the globe; a recent graduate remembers with bitter nostalgia his formative years; a man and woman contend with their own neuroses and anxieties in trying to pick each other up. Szymanski's distinct voice permeates these stories of characters trying vainly to escape the ennui of their lives through the distractions of dreams and vices.

The purposes of the book are severalfold. One is to explain the fundamental nature of quantum Energy, its many strange effects and applications, and its ultimate relationship to - believe it or not - the mind. The second is to offer a complete description of a viable nuclear fusion generator and how a fusion process (the energy of the stars) may be initiated, contained, sustained, and controlled using a new application of electro-dynamics, - and furthermore, how practical energy may be extracted directly from this process. It is also explained why the fantastically expensive and elaborate methods of laboratory nuclear fusion as presently conceived of by physicists has not worked, does not work, and cannot work. The real solution is as simple as it is powerful.

First Love Revisited: Fanny is at a conference that is being given, in part, by her first boyfriend. On the last night he invites her to his room. Both are married with children. The Wanderer of New Perry: A woman saves a man's life and does her utmost to make him fall in love with her.

How did a former bank executive and a kid from a car wash cross paths to discover a shared passion for crafting memorable customer experiences? From Mindless to Mindful answers this question while weaving together their lessons learned over two vastly different careers. Their stories are real and compelling-they transcend boundaries between industries, the nature of businesses, and generational gaps. In today's global marketplace, products and pricing are becoming less distinguishable. Organizations are discovering that great customer service is no longer enough-it takes more. From Mindless to Mindful will sharpen your focus on what really matters to the people who grow your business. You will gain fresh insights on building a culture where delivering memorable customer experiences is in the heart and mind of every manager and employee.

Corey Bonspiel is having a bad day. There's a mysterious lump on his neck, he broke up with his girlfriend, he lost his job at a call centre, and worst of all he can't find a TV to watch the Habs game. Squareheadis a fast-paced, funny, and insightful examination of the notion of two solitudes, of Anglos lost in the hazy dream of Franco Canada. On a night of poetry slams, hockey riots, and a lack of pants, and set against the backdrop of the Bruins-Canadiens 2008 game 7 matchup, Brian Davis' debut novel takes the reader into the quiet corners of Montreal, infusing the story with characters that can only be found in a city like no other. Part DeLillo's Game 6, part Linklater's Slacker, but all Montreal, Squarehead is a hilarious look at loss, living, and loving in oura social-media-driven world, of searching for home and a place in the next round.