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GRAHAM ELDER & LAURA CODY - Call Game

Chief orthopedic resident, Dr. Rylan Fraser, knows she’s in for a bad on-call night when she arrives in the trauma bay to find a young father barely holding on after a major motorcycle accident. It’s the eve of Thanksgiving, so staffing is thin, but things slide further downhill when she learns her junior resident is AWOL and the blizzard raging outside has stranded her supervising attending in a roadside ditch. This means she must fly solo, breaking the established chain-of-command to perform a series of emergency operations she is almost-but-not-entirely qualified to do on her own. Just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, they do. In between surgeries, Rylan is summoned to the ward to check on her post-op patients—only to find one after the other dead in their beds. With stress levels skyrocketing, Rylan teams up with the friendly (and handsome) on-call psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Bennet, to puzzle out what’s happening. Nothing is quite what it seems, though. As the night unfolds, Rylan and Paul are pulled deeper and deeper into a sick cat and mouse game in which their very own lives hang in the balance.

PATRICIA F. BAKER - Stone Journey

STONE JOURNEY is my decade’s old reflection in print about my diagnosis of stage 3 rectal cancer, the devastation, uncertainty, fear, guilt, hopelessness that came along with it. I grieved for my health as well as the profound sadness my family endured. To make matters worse, four months after diagnosis and during chemotherapy and radiation, I found a lump in my right breast which was another primary not a spread. This began a whole new approach which was terrifying. None of this was in my family’s medical history. My medical team were instrumental in keeping my feet to the ground, my purpose in life front and centre and my focus on life not death. My family and friends fed my spirit with wholesome emotional support so I could thrive even at the lowest devastating times.” – Patricia Baker

MARCY D'ETTORRE - Live The List

Hey there — I’m Marcy. I’m a northern Ontario girl with mud on my boots, stardust in my planner, and a habit of turning “one day” into “how about now?” Bucket & Go wasn’t born in a boardroom with a coffee in hand. It was born somewhere between palliative care night shifts, roadside pit stops, and kitchen table travel plans that started with, “What if we just said screw it and went?” After 26 years in health care — most of them spent walking alongside people in their final days — I learned the kind of things no textbook or TED Talk can teach you. Like how time is both a thief and a gift. How regrets feel heavier than backpacks. And how nobody ever says they wish they’d scrolled more. That’s why Bucket & Go isn’t about chasing more-it’s about choosing what actually matters, while you still can. My husband and I? We’re those people. We sold everything. Bought a cabin in the woods. Planted trees. Made fires. Laughed a lot. Cried sometimes. Wandered dirt roads with a camera in one hand and a half-baked dream in the other. People tell us all the time: “I live through your adventures.” And while I totally get the sentiment — it always hits me the same way: You don’t have to live through me. You can live like you mean it, too. So I built Bucket & Go. First for us — to track, dream, and plan a life that felt true. Then I realized… this isn’t just ours. This is for you. The road trip rebel. The stargazing soul. The Sunday planner and the Monday dreamer. The person who’s tired of saying “Maybe next year.” This site is my love letter to the magic of choosing now over never — and the belief that you don’t have to be rich, perfect, or fearless to live a damn good story. You just have to start. So here it is: part guide, part gut-check, part hell yes. Welcome to Bucket & Go. Let’s trade burnout for bucket lists. Let’s live the life we swore we’d never settle for. Let’s pack light, dream big, and cuss a little when the GPS reroutes. And if you ever need proof that it’s okay to start over in the middle of nowhere with a wild heart and Wi-Fi, well… you’re lookin’ at her.

PETER VAUDRY - Kindness Is Sault Ste. Marie

Peter Vaudry has a published book, ‘Kindness is Sault Ste. Marie’. Peter found that he often thought about the many kindnesses he has experienced over his lifetime. He realized and appreciated the huge role those acts of kindness played in his life. He chose the title, “Kindness is Sault Ste. Marie” to capture all of that in its totality. When asked about his reasons for writing ‘Kindness is Sault Ste. Marie’, Peter advised that he was concerned about the growing frequency of public and online displays of angry and resentment-laden behaviour. The book encourages people to be proactive about protecting the community from the corrosive potential of such behaviour. Peter believes that we should all be able to express our opinions but we can do so in a kind and respectful way. “Kindness is Sault Ste. Marie” is an important read for today’s world. Peter’s Thoughts: I write that “Kindness Is Sault Ste. Marie” but it is my experience that the Sault Ste. Marie way is to choose to be kind. In most of the instances I write about, including in my youth, it was a reflexive choice that the people of the Sault made. I was reading again a copy of “Our Daily Bread” article from Nov. 2024 by Michael E. Wittmer, PhD. Professor of Systematic Theology at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, in which he writes, “We are who we’ve chosen to become”. The people of the Sault have always chosen to be kind. I have been concerned about the lack of civility in our society for a while. I think the Sault – with its Legacy of KINDNESS – can be the example of civility based on our history of KINDNESS. I worry in today’s wired world that we may lose the kindness due to today’s current apathy and indifference which is one of the main reasons why I wrote the book. Let’s reinforce who and what we are and keep it strong.

JEFFREY IVAN WRIGHT - Chains Of Kings

Jeffrey Ivan Wright has lived many years in a strange world. It’s an escape place in his mind where the characters are not from here. That fantasy world has made its way to the written word in the form of a book. Jeffrey’s first book, Chains Of Kings, is a work of fiction with plans that it will be the first in a trilogy. Jeffrey is a musician by trade, founder of an entertainment business, Jeffrey Wright Music, that creates, hosts, and participates in festivals, concerts, music events, community events, theatre performances, fundraisers, and expanding further into recording and production. Chains Of Kings A World Shattered. An Ancient Evil Awakens. A War Unforeseen. The world of Ulchir is ablaze, its villages destroyed by the ruthless Savages. Acolytes are resurrecting Wheyla Uhn, a monstrous, ancient god. Young Darius, fueled by vengeance and a terrifying, awakening power, sets off to avenge his family caused by their destruction. Sacha, a fierce warrior from the northern city of Gad, fights to survive in a world torn by political uncertainty. Jorge, a young man, in a desperate quest for hope falls into slavery. Each on their own path to survive, quickly unearths the truth behind the chains that bind the kings of their world. A gripping tale of desperate heroes, dark magic, and a world on the brink of annihilation.