Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health care. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They argue that Canada is an outlier among developed countries in limiting options to jump the queue.This book explores whether a two-tier model is a solution.In Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?, leading researchers explore the public and private mix in Canada, Australia, Germany, Fra...

A generation of scholar-teacher-activists have moved beyond collaborating in theory to embodying, engaging in, and sharing how they practice their pedagogy. Isis Nusair and Barbara L. Shaw edit essays that link feminist, queer, anti-racist, decolonial, and disability theory and practice while using intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to explore how the personal remains political.The contributors describe ways of building communities within and beyond aca...

Each issue of The Society of Misfit Stories Presents… is a celebration of long-form fiction. These novelettes and novellas will entertain and surprise fans of the form. In this issue, stories by Michael Gardner, Ziaul Moid Khan, Mark Lord, Danielle Ranucci, William Suboski, and Rebecca B. Weiss.A sample of the stories in this issue:Jack Hiller believes he is destined to join a secret society that runs the world. But an encounter with an equally amb...

A rip-roarin’, rock ’n’ roll picture book by international music star Kevin Jonas and his wife, Danielle Jonas, about the joy of music, the power of family, and facing your fears.Emma loves music.She loves the boom boom boom of a good bass beat.She loves the stomp stomp stomp her feet make when she dances.She loves to rock out with her mom, her dad, and her little sister.And she lov...

From international rock star Kevin Jonas and Danielle Jonas comes an imagination-focused picture book about how to overcome the rainy-day doldrums and find the fun in every situation.Bella loves the beach.She loves the flip and flop slap of her feet on the sand.She loves the crash, crash, crash of the ocean waves.And she loves the gentle shush, shush of the beach umbrella in the breeze.

Becky and Jamie are an ordinary hard-working couple trapped in the daily grind, dreaming of an easier life. On one of their rare vacations, they meet Phil and Mel, a wealthy couple who seem to have it all—they're fun, well-traveled, and very generous with their money. But they are also very very dangerous. Phil and Mel are not who they say they are, and this is no random vacation friendship. They have chosen Jamie and Becky carefully, seducing them with the promise of a lifestyle just like...