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Tommy is an old and ailing Labrador Retriever whose life is transformed when he finds himself young and fit, and able to speak English. He meets his master Claude, who also feels rejuvenated, and they celebrate by walking and recounting their past adventures. A leisurely stroll becomes a race against time when Claude realizes that they’re revisiting his past on the eve of a family tragedy. Will they be able to avert the tragedy? Gradually, Tommy notices that his health is failing him again. Was his transformation fleeting?
Tommy is an old and ailing Labrador Retriever whose life is transformed when he finds himself young and fit, and able to speak English. He meets his master Claude, who also feels rejuvenated, and they celebrate by walking and recounting their past adventures. A leisurely stroll becomes a race against time when Claude realizes that they're revisiting his past on the eve of a family tragedy. Will they be able to avert the tragedy? Gradually, Tommy notices that his health is failing him again. Was his transformation fleeting?
This is a cartoon book featuring Bobby, a dog with ideas on how people can be active after they retire. In the book, Bobby shares his ideas with the reader. He also provides illustrations of his two masters, both retirees, performing each activity in a way that is silly or perilous to them, but humorous to the reader. The humor is witty, lighthearted and unpretentious.
Although Montreal has been a bilingual city since 1760 and demographically dominated by French-speakers for well over a century and a quarter, it was not until the late 1960s that full-fledged challenges to the city’s English character emerged. Since then. two decades of agitation over la question linguistique as well as the enactment of three language laws have altered the places of French and English in Montreal‘s schools, public administration, economy. and even commercial signs. In this book, Marc Levine examines the nature of this stunning transformation and, in particular, the role of public policy in promoting it. The reconquest of Montreal by the French-speaking majority makes fo...
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