What Happened this Summer

This collection of interconnected short stories follows the lives of Chinese-Canadian teenagers—some locally born, some from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China—over one Toronto summer, giving a rare glimpse into the conflicted world of Chinese youth.

The Underground Reporters

In a quiet village in Czechoslovakia, laws restricted the freedom of Jewish people during WWII. A small plot of land by the river was allocated to the village’s Jewish youth, and it was here that some brave young people decided to create a newspaper.

Bobbie Rosenfeld

A star before she even went on to be one of the first women to compete in the 1928 Olympics, Bobbie Rosenfeld may be Canada’s greatest female athlete of the twentieth century. But her popularity was due to more than athletic brilliance; she was admired for her honesty and sense of fair play.