Crisis in Canada's PolicingWhy change is so hard, and how we can get real reform in our police forcesBy John SewellWe all know policing is in crisis and requires real reform. Based on 40 years of work on this issue, John Sewell details the deep changes required to reverse the racism, sexism and violence embedded in police forces today. |
J.L. Ilsley: A Political BiographyMackenzie King's frugal finance minister who found the money for Canada's war 1939–1945By Barry CahillThis biography of J. L. Ilsley offers a new vantage point on Mackenzie King’s Liberal government during the Second World War and a portrait of a fiscal conservative who opened the floodgates of spending while clamping down on profiteering and the rich. |
While the Beatles were breaking up, John Lennon and Yoko Ono headed to Canada to stage a bed-in for peace, play a peace concert, and meet prime minister Trudeau. |
The Ku Klux Klan in CanadaA Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable KingdomBy Allan BartleyThe history of the racist terrorist KKK organization in Canada, from street violence, to media intimidation, to influencing elections and everything in-between. |
The Avro ArrowThe story of the great Canadian Cold War interceptor jet in pictures and documentsBy Lawrence MillerThe story of the great Canadian Cold War combat jet — in pictures and documents |
Harry Livingstone's Forgotten MenCanadians and the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World WarBy Dan BlackAn untold story about the clandestine operation to transport 80,000 Chinese labourers from remote Chinese villages, across Canada and all the way to the European battlefront to aid in the war effort and the mistreatment and racism they faced along the way. |
Winnipeg 1919The Strikers' Own History of the General StrikeBy The Winnipeg Defence Committee, Introduction by Christo Aivalis, Edited by Norman PennerThe most important primary document from the Winnipeg General Strike now back in print with a new introduction on the occasion of the strike's 100th anniversary |
Homelessness can be ended in Canada, and in this book leading shelter operators share their experience and their proposals about how this can be done, city by city. |
The Creative City of Saint JohnEdited by Gwendolyn Davies, Edited by Peter Larocque, Edited by Christl VerduynAn extensively illustrated account of a wide range of creators and creative work — writing, painting, natural history scholarship, filmmaking — which are part of Saint John's colourful history |