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Brotherhood to Nationhood

By (author) Peter McFarlane & Doreen Manuel
Foreword by Pamela Palmater
Categories: Biography: general

Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. George ...

Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty

By (author) Hana Shafi
Categories: Society and culture: general

Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty—built around art from Shafi’s popular online affirmation series—focuses on our never-ending journey of self-discovery. It explores the ways in which the world can ...

The Taste of Longing

By (author) Suzanne Evans
Categories: Second World War

Half a world away from her home on Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World ...

Words of the Inuit

Words of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear ...

About Canada: Disability Rights, 2nd ed.

In the second edition of About Canada: Disability Rights, Deborah Stienstra explores the historical and current experiences of people with disabilities in Canada, as well as the policy and advocacy responses ...

Pier 21

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when ...

I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi?

By (author) An Antane Kapesh
Translated by Sarah Henzi
Categories: Indigenous peoples
Series: Indigenous Studies

Quebec author An Antane Kapesh's two books, Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979), are among the foregrounding works by Indigenous women in Canada. This English translation ...

Pathways of Reconciliation

The essays in Pathways of Reconciliation address the themes of reframing, learning and healing, researching, and living. They engage with different approaches to reconciliation (within a variety of reconciliation ...

Won’t Get Fooled Again

“FAKE NEWS!” screams Donald Trump from his Twitter account when journalists ask tough questions about his past or present behaviour. Meanwhile, his Fox & Friends fan club makes dubious claims about ...

Alone: A Love Story

By (author) Michelle Parise
Categories: Biography: general

Love, marriage, baby. Michelle Parise bought into the dream. But one day, her husband drops The Bomb and she’s suddenly alone. Michelle documents falling in love to the fallout of infidelity and everything ...