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The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife

Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of the failures of ...

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 ...

From Wall Street to Bay Street

By (author) Joe Martin & Chris Kobrak
Categories: History of the Americas

 

The 2008 financial crisis rippled across the globe and triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer funded bailouts, ...

Busted

By (author) Susan C. Boyd
Categories: Crime and criminology

Busted is an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Reproducing drawings, paintings, photographs, film stills, and official documents from the 1700s to the ...

Nta'tugwaqanminen Notre histoire

Nta’tugwaqanminen-Notre histoire présente la vision, la relation à la terre, l’occupation historique et actuelle du territoire, de même que les noms de lieux et ce que révèlent ceux-ci sur l’occupation ...

Reconnaissance et exclusion des peuples autochtones au Québec

Au-delà des politiques de reconnaissance des peuples autochtones au Québec et au Canada se profile un système légal d’exclusion qui a permis d’organiser un génocide culturel autour de la création ...

Sculpture in Canada

By (author) Maria Tippett
Categories: Sculpture

Found in public spaces and parks, art galleries and university buildings, along riverbanks as well as in city squares, private gardens and even underwater, Canadian sculpture encompasses a range of materials ...

Travellers Through Empire

In the late 18th century and throughout the 19th century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people—especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree—travelled to Britain and other parts of the ...

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this ...

Big Business and Hitler

By (author) Jacques R. Pauwels
Categories: European history

Basing his work on the recent findings of scholars in many European countries and the US, Jacques Pauwels explains how Hitler gained and held the support of powerful business interests who found the well-liked ...