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Poverty and Policy in Canada

By (author) Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Jack Layton
Categories: Poverty and precarity

Poverty and Policy in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This original volume considers a range of issues ...

Free Speech in Fearful Times

How post-9/11 anti-terror laws have limited free speech in Canada and abroad

Following the events of 9/11, rashly conceived anti-terror laws were introduced that put civil liberties at risk, and eliminated ...

Comfort Food for Breakups

By (author) Marusya Bociurkiw
Categories: Memoirs

Finalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection
Winner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography/Memoir
Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), ...

The Spirit Lives in the Mind

Louis Bird is an Omushkego storyteller and scholar and the author of Telling Our Stories: Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay. A member of Winisk First Nation, he lives in Peawanuck, near ...

Switchbacks

By (author) Jennifer Kramer
Categories: Ethnic studies

Switchbacks explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling ...

The New Buffalo

By (author) Blair Stonechild
Categories: Ethnic studies

Post-secondary education, often referred to as “the new buffalo,” is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain ...

Do Men Mother?

By (author) Andrea Doucet
Categories: Social work

More and more, fathers are deciding to stay at home and care for their children rather than work full-time outside of the home. More and more, Canadian families are lead by single fathers. Shining a spotlight ...

Good Intentions Gone Awry

By (author) Jan Hare & Jean Barman
Categories: Ethnic studies

Emma Crosby’s letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well ...