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That Lonely Section of Hell
October 11, 2016 |
368 pages
From her first assignment in 1998 to explore an increase in the number of missing women to the harrowing 2002 interrogation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, Lori Shenher tells a story of massive police failurefailure of the police to use the information about Pickton available to them,... More Info
Trudeaumania
HarperCollins Publishers |
September 20, 2016 |
384 pages
Nearly twenty years after his death and more than thirty since his retirement from active politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is at long last receding from the lived memory of Canadians. But despite the distance of time, he still holds court in the minds of many, and today his son Justin now lives at... More Info
$19.95
Boiling Point
October 11, 2016 |
264 pages
"She has one of the most thorough and comprehensive understandings of her subject of anyone alive.” -- Globe and Mail We are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water, confident that we will always have enough. Water crises face other countries, but not... More Info
$22.99
Campaign Confessions
A J. Patrick Boyer Book |
September 10, 2016 |
184 pages
John Laschinger, Canada’s only full-time campaign manager, opens up about the fifty campaigns he has worked on around the world. From smoke-filled backrooms to social media, Laschinger gives unflinching detail on everything in a campaign manager’s arsenal.
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$26.52
Canadian Immigration and South Asian Immigrants
Xlibris Corporation |
September 19, 2014 |
399 pages
South Asian immigrants have made a significant contribution to the Canadian mosaic. However, their trials and tribulations and their successes and failures constitute a story that remains untold. To know of their arrivals, their struggles to beat the odds, as well as their successes, is to read a... More Info
Canoe Country
Vintage Books Canada |
September 1, 2015 |
304 pages
One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.
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$29.95
Unwanted Warriors
UBC Press |
May 2, 2016 |
256 pages
Unwanted Warriors uncovers the history of Canada's first casualties of the Great War - men who tried to enlist but were deemed "unfit for service." What impact did military exclusion have on these men? Nic Clarke looks for answers in the service files of 3,400 rejected volunteers and explores the... More Info
Unflinching
Simon and Schuster |
May 3, 2016 |
256 pages
"Inspirational true story of and lessons from a Canadian sniper who lost his legs in Afghanistan."--
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Megacity Malaise
April 1, 2016 |
110 pages
This study is among the first in Canada to document the transformation of municipal governance and public services from Keynesian to neoliberal public policy at the urban scale. Focusing on the neoliberal transformation of cites in Ontario from 1954 to 2014, with special attention to Toronto, it... More Info
$24.95
Shopping for Votes
Douglas & McIntyre |
January 21, 2016 |
352 pages
Finalist of the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize, Nonfiction Finalist of the 2014 Dafoe Book Prize Winner of the 2014 Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism
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Human Rights in Canada
February 1, 2016 |
200 pages
This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history—one that transformed political culture, social movements, law, and... More Info
Canada's Residential Schools
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
December 9, 2015 |
392 pages
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and... More Info
Canada's Residential Schools
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
December 9, 2015 |
978 pages
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and... More Info
$28.00
More Harm Than Good
July 1, 2016 |
170 pages
In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada's increasing involvement in and commitment to the "war on drugs." A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm... More Info
The Call of the World
UBC Press |
April 1, 2016 |
456 pages
Bill Graham – Canada's minister of foreign affairs and minister of defense during the tumultuous years following 9/11 – takes us on a personal journey from his Vancouver childhood to important, behind-the-scenes moments in recent global history. With candour and wit, he recounts meetings with... More Info
Red Star Tattoo
Random House Canada |
January 12, 2016 |
272 pages
From hardscrabble Milwaukee to dreamy Hawaii, from turbulent Montreal to free-spirited California, Red Star Tattoo is Sonja Larsen's unforgettable memoir of a young life spent on the move. By the age of 16, Sonja joins a cult-like communist organization in Brooklyn--unaware of the dark nature of... More Info
Canada's Residential Schools
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
December 9, 2015 |
296 pages
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and... More Info
Canada's Residential Schools
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
December 9, 2015 |
272 pages
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and... More Info
Canada's Residential Schools
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
December 9, 2015 |
88 pages
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and... More Info
Canada's Residential Schools
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
December 9, 2015 |
266 pages
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and... More Info
Canada's Residential Schools
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
December 9, 2015 |
824 pages
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to "civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and... More Info
$32.99
The Killing Game
Patrick Crean Editions |
March 8, 2016 |
288 pages
On January 21, 2015, a pro-ISIS Twitter account reported that John Maguire, a 23-year-old university drop-out from the Ottawa Valley town of Kemptville, had been killed fighting Kurds in the Syrian city of Kobani. A few weeks before, Maguire had starred in a YouTube video threatening Canada for... More Info
The Great Northern Canada Bucket List
Dundurn |
March 2, 2016 |
160 pages
From Robin Esrock, author of The Great Canadian Bucket List, comes a look at the best that northern Canada has to offer. Having travelled to over one hundred countries on six continents, international travel guru and bestselling author Robin Esrock turns his attention to Canada’s three northern... More Info
Statistics for Social Justice
October 1, 2015 |
176 pages
In Statistics for Social Justice: A Structural Perspective, van de Sande and Byvelds argue that social work research, including statistics, should be taught from a structural perspective and should follow anti-oppressive principles, which view the problems experienced by people as rooted in the... More Info
The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement
November 30, 2015 |
448 pages
In The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement, Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon suggest that anti-abortion activism increasingly presents itself as "pro-women," employing rhetorical tactics to present the anti-abortion position as more feminist than pro-choice feminism.
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Anthologizing Canadian Literature
Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
March 31, 2015 |
400 pages
The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada and answer these key questions: Why are there so many literary anthologies in Canada, and how can... More Info
Tragedy in the Commons
Vintage |
March 3, 2015 |
288 pages
The founders of influential think tank Samara ask former members of Parliament what has gone wrong with our democracy, and how it can be fixed. Talk to any Canadian about politics and you'll hear little but frustration and bewilderment. Canadians don't see their politicians working for them; all... More Info
Canada in Africa
Fernwood Publishing |
April 30, 2015 |
280 pages
Yves Engler continues his groundbreaking analyses of past and present Canadian foreign policy. The author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, and other works that challenge the myth of Canadian benevolence, documents Canadian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, the "scramble for... More Info
A Celtic Temperament
McClelland & Stewart |
October 6, 2015 |
432 pages
The selected diaries of Robertson Davies, one of Canada's literary legends, and a celebrated playwright, novelist, journalist, and academic. Published for the first time, the diaries are a self-portrait of a brilliant and charismatic man and an insider's view of a writer's life and the Canadian... More Info
Welfare Reform in Canada
August 10, 2015 |
416 pages
Welfare Reform in Canada brings together top scholars and practitioners in the field of social welfare to provide a detailed assessment of the current state of social assistance in each Canadian province. It also offers key insights for the future of scholarly research and public policy action. The... More Info
O.D. Skelton
University of Toronto Press |
June 25, 2015 |
456 pages
When O.D. Skelton became Prime Minister Mackenzie King's foreign policy advisor in 1923, he was already a celebrated critic of the status quo in international and domestic affairs, a loyal Liberal Party man, and a fervent nationalist who believed Canada needed to steer a path independent of... More Info
Unaccountable
Viking Canada |
September 29, 2015 |
304 pages
A unique insider's account of the Harper government so damning that it cannot be ignored In March 2008, Kevin Page was appointed by the federal Conservatives to be the country's first Parliamentary Budget Officer. The move fulfilled a Tory campaign promise to deliver greater government transparency... More Info
Big Tent Politics
UBC Press |
September 1, 2015 |
160 pages
The Liberal Party of Canada is one of the most successful parties in the democratic world. It dominated Canadian politics for a century, practising an inclusive style of "big tent" politics that enabled it to fend off opponents on both the left and right. This book traces the record of the party,... More Info
History's People
August 14, 2015 |
304 pages
In this year's highly anticipated Massey Lectures, internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the great figures of the past, women and men, who have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times -- and sometimes with huge... More Info
The Diplomat
September 22, 2015 |
320 pages
Saturday, November 3, 1956 The United Nations, New York City about 10 p.m. Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about to speak, reading from a proposal composed of seventy-eight painstakingly chosen words.... More Info
Irving Vs. Irving
Penguin Hardcover |
September 1, 2015 |
352 pages
The inside story of how these ambitious, often ruthless entrepreneurs came to dominate the economic and political affairs of Atlantic Canada, and how they learned to love the property that perplexed them most: their media monopoly They are Canada's third wealthiest family and one of the largest... More Info
The Morning After
Vintage Canada |
September 1, 2015 |
272 pages
A #1 national bestseller, winner of the QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, and finalist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, "The Morning After "is a sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's most... More Info
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary
James Lorimer & Company |
July 27, 2015 |
392 pages
This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school... More Info
What's Happened to Politics?
Simon & Schuster |
August 25, 2015 |
160 pages
From esteemed Canadian political leader Bob Rae comes a piercing examination of the fractured state of Canadian politics and what can be done to fix it. Segmented electorates. Endless repetition of sound bites and vanity videos with little substance. Billions of dollars spent on lobbying. It’s... More Info
Paddlenorth
September 15, 2015 |
240 pages
Paddlenorth tells the riveting story of Jennifer Kingsley’s 54-day paddling adventure on the Back River in the northern wilderness of the Arctic as she and her five companions battle raging winds, impenetrable sea ice, treacherous rapids, and agonizing sores and blisters while contending with... More Info
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
London : Flamingo |
September 30, 1992 |
112 pages
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'.One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by... More Info
About Canada: Women S Rights
Fernwood Publishing |
July 15, 2015 |
134 pages
A foundational look at Canada s history of women s rights and the contributions and accomplishments women have made in Canada."
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Purchase for Profit
September 30, 2015 |
224 pages
Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more... More Info
Who We Are
October 13, 2015 |
224 pages
In this marriage of memoir and manifesto, Elizabeth May reflects on her extraordinary life and the people and experiences that have formed her and informed her beliefs about democracy, climate change, and other crucial issues facing Canadians. The book traces her development from child activist who... More Info
Creating Legal Worlds
University of Toronto Press |
June 25, 2015 |
192 pages
Through careful analyses of notable cases from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Greig Henderson analyses how the rhetoric of storytelling often carries as much argumentative weight within a judgement as the logic of legal distinctions.
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Putting the State on Trial
UBC Press |
June 15, 2015 |
396 pages
When the G20 Summit was held in Toronto in 2010, people were shocked to see Canadian police officers acting in ways that appeared foreign and frightening. The riot gear, surveillance, mass arrests, and physical abuse of citizens were all indicative of an out-of-control policing operation. The... More Info
Home and Native Land
Between the Lines(CA) |
July 1, 2011 |
256 pages
Challenging--unsettling--our commonly held understanding of multiculturalism
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The Ward
Coach House Books |
May 15, 2015 |
320 pages
From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others landed in The Ward' in the centre of downtown. Deemed a slum, the area was crammed with derelict housing and ethnic' businesses; it was razed in the 1950s to make way for a grand civic plaza... More Info
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