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The Supreme Court on Trial

By (author) Kent Roach
Categories: Legal systems: judicial powers

The Supreme Court of Canada has been accused of allowing criminals to go free; of permitting tobacco companies to advertise; of being too sympathetic to Aboriginal people; and of usurping democracy on ...

Censorship in Canadian Literature

Cohen critiques Timothy Findley’s broad anti-censorship position; he traces Margaret Atwood’s evolution from implicit support for the censorship of pornography in Bodily Harm to the rejection of censorship ...

Native Poetry in Canada

Edited by Jeannette Armstrong & Lally Grauer
Categories: Poetry

Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside ...

In Order to Live Untroubled

By (author) Renee Fossett
Categories: History of the Americas

Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ...

Steveston

By (author) Daphne Marlatt
Illustrated by Robert Minden
Categories: History of the Americas

Ronsdale Press offers a new edition of Steveston, this much loved work by two of Canada’s finest poets and photographers. For this edition, Daphne Marlatt has written a new poem, never before published, ...

Benedict Arnold

By (author) Barry Wilson
Categories: History of the Americas

While most biographies of Arnold concentrate on his revolutionary exploits and subsequent treason, Wilson explores his role in Canadian history and the routes that brought him to Canada. He takes the ...

Northern Visions

Outstanding Academic Title, 2002 - Choice

Canadian nationalists in the 19th century argued that the North, with its extremes of winter, distance and isolation defined the country’s essential character ...

Spirit Dance at Meziadin

In January 1887 a delegation of chiefs from the Nisga’a and Tsimshian peoples of northern British Columbia, seeking restitution from a government that had stolen their lands without a treaty or compensation, ...