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Pow wow etiquette for dummies

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Is part of: Atrocities against Indigenous Canadians.

Key information about a Pow Wow: "A Pow Wow is a social gathering that celebrates Indigenous culture and community through song, dance, arts, food and traditional crafts..."

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Power Play: Schemes and Skulduggery

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Players: 4-8
Playing time: 1-3 hours

Introduction: Welcome to Power Play, a world of criminal deeds, life or death stakes, supernatural feats, and twisted intrigue. In this game, friends and fellow gamers sit around a table and take turns…

PQ Win Literary Bonanza for Biography of Levesque

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Discussion on Desbarats' biographical work on Rene Levesque, its popularity with the Canadian public.

Pressure Cooker

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Players: 2-4
Playing time: 30-60 min
Age: 14+

Game overview: Welcome to Tres Yummy, the hottest new restaurant to hit town in years, and tonight is opening night. Unfortunately, management has not yet hired a chef. Players take the role of chefs…

Printing Machine?

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photograph of man using a printing maching

Provocative Analysis of Canada's Problems

London, Ontario

A generally positive review on Desbarats's "Looking Forward in Anguish: Canada Lost, Canada Found". Craig praises Desbarats on his level of critical overview of the key points leading up to Canada's political environment during the…

Puerto Rico

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Players: 3-5
Playing time: 90-150 min
Age: 13 and up

Game overview: Prospector, captain, mayor, trader, settler, craftsman, or builder? Which roles will you play in the new world? Will you own the most prosperous plantations? Will you build the…

PVB Terentii Comoedie Sex : Ex Recensione Heinsiana (Six Comedies of Publius Terentius: from the Heinsius Review) [original]

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Binding: good ; vellum binding ; bumped corners ; front cover separated from spine

Spine: front cover is separating from spine

Textblock: good to very good ; some discolouration ; a few bent corners

Printer/Binder: "Typis Ludovici Elzevirii"

Quilt Show

Quilt block tiles
Players: 2-4
Playing time: 30-75 minutes
Age: 13 to adult

Game overview: In this game, you are a quilter. You will collect fabric cards which can be exchanged for block tiles. As you amass block tiles, you will combine them into one or more…

Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Omnia (All works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus) [original]

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Binding: good ; dark red leather with gold tooling ; wear on edges and hinges ; bumped corners ; gold tooling on inside of covers bordering endpapers ; endpapers are blue fabric ; ribbon bookmark ; miniature

Spine: good to very good ; red leather…