Sports, Health & Self-help

Playing It Forward: 50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada

By Guylaine Demers; Lorraine Greaves; Marion Lay; Sandra Kirby; eds.

Since February 2008, The Feminist History Society has made it their mission to rigorously document the Canadian feminist movement between the years 1960 and 2010. The goal is that, each year, society members receive a ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Mr. Hockey: My Story

By Gordie Howe

Hockey great Gordie Howe had long since established himself as an elite NHL talent by the time his wife, Colleen, gave birth to the couple’s first child, Marty, in 1954. Arguably the game’s best player, ... Read More »

November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Sports, Health & Self-help

Death of Derek Boogaard

By John Branch

The sudden death in 2011 of National Hockey League enforcer Derek Boogaard shocked the hockey world in ways that continue to resonate today. Just 28 at the time of his death, Boogaard was the NHL’s ... Read More »

October 16, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Paddlenorth: Adventure, Resilience, and Renewal in the Arctic Wild

By Jennifer Kingsely

Jennifer Kingsley is a wilderness guide, naturalist, and conservationist. She has a degree in biology and has published articles in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Paddlenorth, Kingsley’s first book, chronicles her 54-day canoeing expedition on the ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Changing the Game: A History of the NHL Expansion

By Stephen Laroche

Long before the Florida Panthers and the Anaheim Ducks, there were the Montreal Maroons and the Detroit Cougars. The original expansion era of the National Hockey League began in the 1920s, when today’s bedrock teams ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Great Expectations: The Lost Toronto Blue Jays Season

By Shi Davidi and John Lott

Great Expectations is a first pass at the history of the 2013 Toronto Blue Jays, written by two of the team’s best beat reporters, Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi and the National Post’s John Lott. Positioned as ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Don’t Call Me Goon: Hockey’s Greatest Enforcers, Gunslingers, and Bad Boys

By Greg Oliver and Richard Kamchen

Hockey players who make their living primarily with their fists are described by a variety of names, but calling them goons is apparently disrespectful. That’s the premise behind Don’t Call Me Goon, in which authors ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The NHL: 100 Years of On-Ice Action and Boardroom Battles

By D’Arcy Jenish

The author of histories of the Montreal Canadiens and the St. Lawrence Seaway, D’Arcy Jenish clearly enjoys comprehensive retrospectives, and this trait is evident in his new book on the NHL’s first century. If you’re ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie

By Grant Lawrence

Two boys, both regularly beaten black and blue by the schoolyard bully and disappointed by the doomed fortunes of their respective hometown hockey teams, find salvation from eternal nerdom by joining rock bands. The two ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help