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Excessive Force

By (author) Alok Mukherjee & Tim Harper
Categories: Biography: general

Alok Mukherjee was the civilian overseer of the Toronto police between 2005 and 2015, during the most tumultuous decade the force had ever faced. In this provocative and highly readable collaboration ...

Wild Fierce Life

By (author) Joanna Streetly
Categories: Memoirs

Wild Fierce Life is a heart-stopping and vivid portrait of life on the continental edge and one woman’s evolving place within it. Streetly’s vivid storytelling evokes a sincere respect for nature, ...

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the ...

Ordinary Paradise

By (author) Richard Teleky
Categories: Anthologies: general

The essays in Ordinary Paradise muse on what it means to be engaged with literature, music, film and the visual arts, and celebrate the extraordinary power that creative accomplishment can have on our ...

Metis Pioneers

By (author) Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Categories: Indigenous peoples

In Metis Pioneers, MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s ...

Wisdom in Nonsense

With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep ...

Bagnards sans visage

Nora Atalla écrit une poésie qui se présente comme une espèce de mémoire du monde : contrastant les côtés sombre et lumineux de l’histoire humaine, son œuvre met en scène la cruauté des tyrans ...

Douze ans en France

Quebec writer Mélikah Abdelmoumen spent 12 years living near Lyon with her husband and young son. In many ways, her exile of sorts was positive and enriching, but the political and social climate in ...

De l'amour et de l'audace

Si l’entre-deux-guerres constitue le point de bascule de la littérature canadienne-française dans la modernité, cela s’explique en partie par la présence de plus en plus marquée des femmes dans ...

L'espace-temps dans les littératures périphériques du Canada

Dans les littératures francophones du Canada, l’espace — que ce soit la ville, la campagne, la banlieue, la forêt, le Nord — a été depuis longtemps étudié et le temps a lui aussi été traité. ...