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In this third book of the After the Last Day saga, the fascists, weakened by the military and natural consequences from their attempt to destroy Huron Territory, are finally subdued.Nature's fortune benefits the people of Huron, and in, The End of Shadows, they enter the future taking advantage of an uneasy peace to overcome the lingering but fading emotional and physical shadows of the lives they had been living before the last day of industrial society.Nature again reminds them to be humble, but adversity strengthens them to face bravely the uncertain future. This is somewhat the personal journey of the travelling scribe, Brandi Shadly where a world striving for political, economic and emotional security forms a backdrop of constant struggle.

This is the second story in the trilogy set in southern Ontario during a global economic collapse, previously published in a single volume as '|After the Last Day', still available in its original form as an EBook. Those who have read the original version of After the Last Day will not find any significant changes in the story.In the three years after fleeing for their lives, several families joined the struggle of the free territory of Huron.After subduing local gangsters, they were confronted with the threat of extinction by fascists attempting to conquer Ontario. This threat culminated in a great battle when the existence of Huron hung in the balance, only to be decided by unexpected forces that left a lingering shadow over everyone.

Don Hayard's memories of his early life in High Falls Ontario on the Spanish river framed as a fictional return to the disappeared town sometime in the early 2000s. The span of memory is from about 1948 to 1961.In the engaging stage play, Ipperwash, Falen Johnson and Jessica Carmichael lead us to consider place, loss of home and dislocation from our roots. They presented the story as an explanation of the native peoples' connection to the land. I left the Blythe Theater with a mixture of excitement and sadness in my heart.Our industrial culture over the past 200 years has led to dislocation for most of us, as economics has forced people to move or has obliterated our places of youth, and in my case, both happened with High Falls. It had disappeared by 1980.

IF YOU HAVE READ THE ORIGINAL "e;AFTER THE LAST DAY"e;, YOU WILL NOT FIND THIS A MAJOR CHANGE TO PART ONE AND SO DO NOT NEED TO READ THIS VERSION.When global economic collapse hits a small town in Dufferin County, Ontario, Canada, many residents flee in search of relief while others choose more horrible solutions. The catastrophe overwhelms elected governments as the long-distance supply of food collapses and desperate populations fight for meagre rations. Some local residents band together to survive, but their efforts are threatened by an elite that sees collapse as a chance to take control. Bloody fighting amongst ethnic groups and criminal gangs spills out of the cities, engulfing much of the countryside. Threatened by repression and murder, the local progressive leadership seeks allies in order to survive. They join the small, free enclave of Huron Territory, struggling against internal shortages, starvation and preparing to fight the brutal dictatorship that soon dominates most of Ontario.

This text provides an analysis of the efforts to establish systems of self-managing schools around the world. The core of this book is the description of the transformation of the education system in the state of Victoria, Australia, from dependence in a highly centralized and bureaucratized structure to one that values local decision making and the creation of a system of self-managing schools. The text goes on to show how these and similar programmes in other nations could lay the foundations for similar reform. The authors propose that there must be changes in the role of key stakeholders, including government, community and profession; traditional approaches must be challenged and new ways to fund schools to be canvassed.

This text provides an analysis of the efforts to establish systems of self-managing schools around the world. The core of this book is the description of the transformation of the education system in the state of Victoria, Australia, from dependence in a highly centralized and bureaucratized structure to one that values local decision making and the creation of a system of self-managing schools. The text goes on to show how these and similar programmes in other nations could lay the foundations for similar reform. The authors propose that there must be changes in the role of key stakeholders, including government, community and profession; traditional approaches must be challenged and new ways to fund schools to be canvassed.

Return is a sequel and homage to Steven Spielberg's mini-series Taken. It does not pretend to achieve the level of a Spielberg approved script, but it attempts to embrace his portrayal of aliens as a non-aggressive and perhaps a bit of a bumbling entity. It would be helpful for the reader to have watched the ten-part mini-series, first aired in 2002. It would be good to get familiar with E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to get a feel for Spielberg's portrayal of star visitors.You will not find invading space monsters here.Some of the character names from Taken and general references to events from the series appear here to give continuity.This is not an official sequel, and no one connected with the television series has sanctioned it. The promised sequel did not appear, and after 18 years of waiting, I wrote my version.Charlie Keys, father of Ellie Keys, fled into obscure exile to the small Canadian town of Goderich, Ontario. He wanted to escape the notoriety surrounding the aliens taking his daughter, Ellie, up in a star-ship. Twenty years later, Ellie returns with a daughter, RoH, as part of an alien project to absorb the positive human traits of empathy and conviviality.Ellie, mostly human and RoH half-human, both want to save life on Earth from a certain ecocide by humans. Circumstance thwarts their plan for a gradual introduction of their existence. Canadian journalists expose the alien presence and the American government's attempt to exploit them. A rogue visitor to the inner solar system threatens the Mars settlement and forces an earlier and more spectacular alien appearance. It also requires them to interfere more deeply in human affairs than they wanted to.The undeniable existence of aliens forces humans to re-think our place in the cosmos against a backdrop of political and economic chaos and religious hate.

Annie, on a quest given to her by an ancestor, travelled from her home north of Lake Huron to the Beaver Valley, the place where her hero Nimise Makwa, Brandi Shadly lived and died. Her mother charges Annie with completing Nimise's search for the light of knowledge and peace to protect it, she believed, from growing mysticism. This journey takes place in the book, The Seventh Path.Invaders, from the aggressive industrial power, Erie Nation take Annie hostage along with several friends. The captors take them to Erie nation, which occupies much of what was once the state of Ohio south of Lake Erie. Annie soon understands that her quest is to destroy this entity. She realizes its misuse of knowledge is a greater threat than mystical belief. She does not realize, until later, that she will not be the one to do complete the task, but she is bringing the young boy who will be the key to success.The solution requires uniting good people within Erie Nation with a power from the south. The final struggle leaves hope and Annie can then return home, free of her quest, and reach her journey's end.

This text provides an analysis of the efforts to establish systems of self-managing schools around the world. The core of this book is the description of the transformation of the education system in the state of Victoria, Australia, from dependence in a highly centralized and bureaucratized structure to one that values local decision making and the creation of a system of self-managing schools. The text goes on to show how these and similar programmes in other nations could lay the foundations for similar reform. The authors propose that there must be changes in the role of key stakeholders, including government, community and profession; traditional approaches must be challenged and new ways to fund schools to be canvassed.

This text provides an analysis of the efforts to establish systems of self-managing schools around the world. The core of this book is the description of the transformation of the education system in the state of Victoria, Australia, from dependence in a highly centralized and bureaucratized structure to one that values local decision making and the creation of a system of self-managing schools. The text goes on to show how these and similar programmes in other nations could lay the foundations for similar reform. The authors propose that there must be changes in the role of key stakeholders, including government, community and profession; traditional approaches must be challenged and new ways to fund schools to be canvassed.

"e;We will destroy Toronto. We will destroy industrialism."e;In a world where industrialism devastated the planetary ecosystem at a fast pace, the environmental movement split into two factions. The established environmentalists evolved into business operations where paid jobs, fundraising, government and corporate grants became the main focus. This faction believed that green corporations and growth could save the planet and allow the destructive ballooning of human numbers to continue. They thought that electing members to industrialist controlled parliaments would make a difference. The second faction understood that only total destruction of industrialism would be effective, allowing the remaining species to survive and perhaps some humans. At the extreme of this group sat the deep resistors, organised in cells so black that the security forces were not aware of them until they first attacked.Sherwood Green, in a spectacular series of fires and explosions, launched a surprise attack on Toronto, the strategic financial centre of Canada. The frantic, response of police focused on the above ground supporters of Sherwood Green.Jos Amiel, a young reporter for the local, superficial TorontoNewsNow television network hoped covering Sherwood Green would build his career. Events drew him in deeper as the stress of the attacks exposed the seamy underside of the fragile city culture. Jos began to understand, if Sherwood Green succeeded, they would destroy Toronto along with his career.

Steam dominated the railways of the world for a hundred years,but the powerful marriage of internal combustion and electricity gradually pushed steam aside. By the end of the 1950s, steam was fading fast and diesel locomotives were dominating. The old romance of living steel and tough men would not go quietly. On a small backwater sub-branch of the Canadian Southern Railway, the men of the old and the new collided. Love, hate, ambition and intrigue came together to end in tragedy. Ex-Mountie Mike Donovan, hoping for quiet semi-retirement as a railway cop soon discovered that sleepy backwater Ontario provided more excitement and mystery than he thought possible. As Donovan digs deeper, he finds killers are not always evil and victims not always deserving as the old motives of lust, jealousy, love and fear play out their deadly dance. In the end he finds, in spite of all, love wins.

A century and a half after the collapse of the global economy, the residents of the Great Lakes basin are suffering the aftermath of the industrial 'Before Time'. Climatic extremes are a persistent reminder of the danger of straying from the loop of life. A young girl, Annie, is given the dangerous quest to find the true light of wisdom that balances the spiritual with the scientific, struggling to preserve useful knowledge from the Before Time in a world of growing mysticism. Only her success will lead to a future for her people. Grief and fear accompany Annie as she struggles to fulfil her responsibility. In her concern for the trend to mysticism, she is awakened to the larger threat from technology. For all of its difficulty, the seventh path only leads Annie to the impossible choice between personal safety and fulfilling her quest.

After decades of ridiculed stories, and evidence only the American government had, aliens landed on Earth. In a spectacular show on New Year's Eve, they rescued the thousand first settlers on Mars as a massive comet slammed into the planet.As part of the unplanned intervention, the visitors disabled the militaries of all countries. This caused massive economic turmoil as defence industries collapsed and took over half of industrial economic activity with them. Perhaps an even greater dislocation came from the destruction of the myth of the special place of humans in the cosmos held by most religions. Both disruptions drove increasing conflict among humans and the fragmentation of most countries.The aliens only wanted two things, to gain empathy from humans and to have humans find the cooperation necessary to save life on Earth.RoH, the half alien human, whose star name translated as 'New dust that spreads new life', had come to Earth as a key part of the effort, but her discovery of a rogue alien hybrid led her into a chase against time. The dangerous mutant threatened both aliens and humans. RoH must either tame him or kill him.The aliens considered RoH as the first of a new entity that would take the next step for sentient life in the galaxy. She mesmerized aliens and humans as she brought humour and power to all problems.Less than a year after RoH and her mother Ellie arrive on Earth, everyone including RoH is surprised when she is called to fulfil her role in the galaxy. A star-travelling species emerged from its self-imposed dormancy in the Sagittarian arm of the galaxy when they discovered that RoH existed. This species named the miigis thousands of years before by Anishinaabe of central North America, summon RoH. She leaves Earth amidst hope and heartache to fulfill an unknown destiny.RoH – Alien Legacy is the direct sequel to the story, Return.

Aliens transport two human scientists to the strange moon-planet Jewel. They discover that all is not what it seems and the galaxy is stranger than they thought.