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NEW! Solidarity Beyond BarsUnionizing Prison Labour |
Prisons don’t work, but prisoners do. Prisons are often critiqued as unjust, but we hear little about the daily labour of incarcerated workers — what they do, how they do it, who they … | Asaf Rashid; Jordan House | 180 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Spectres of FascismHistorical, Theoretical and International Perspectives |
Concerns over the rise of fascism have been preoccupied with the Trump presidency and the Brexit vote in the UK, yet, globally, we are witnessing a turn towards anti-democratic and illiberal … | Samir Gandesha | 304 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Still HopefulLessons from a Lifetime of Activism |
“Canada’s best-known voice of dissent.” — CBC In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that … | Maude Barlow | 240 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Take Back the TrayRevolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions |
Good food generally doesn’t arrive on a tray, but Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability to produce good, nourishing food, because she’s been making it … | Joshna Maharaj | 258 | 2020 | View |
NEW! TestimonioCanadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala |
What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, … | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 268 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The Attack on Nova Scotia’s SchoolsThe story behind 25 years of tumultuous change |
Nova Scotia’s public schools and their students have faced dramatic conflict and drastic change over the past 25 years. While critics charge that schools are failing kids, teachers have … | Grant Frost | 180 | 2020 | View |
NEW! The Canadian InvestorChallenges and Change in Canadian Capital Markets |
The Canadian Investor is one of the clearest and most informative accounts of Canada’s financial system and the issues it has been facing since the 2008 financial market crash. This … | Anita Indira Anand | 210 | 2020 | View |
NEW! The Case for Basic IncomeFreedom, Security, Justice |
Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 264 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The Case for Climate CapitalismEconomic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis |
A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide among those who otherwise agree we must mitigate climate risk: anti-market critics such as Naomi Klein … | Tom Rand | 274 | 2020 | View |
NEW! The Elective MindPhilosophy and the Undergraduate Degree |
This book discusses the relevance of philosophy courses within the undergraduate curriculum as integral to the self-formation that is at the heart of a liberal education. The objective is to … | Réal Fillion | 164 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The End of This WorldClimate Justice in So-Called Canada |
The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. In this compelling roadmap to a … | Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest | 228 | 2023 | View |
NEW! The Environmentalist’s DilemmaPromise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis |
For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest calamity. In the … | Arno Kopecky | 266 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court50 Years of History |
The Federal Court of Appeal and Federal Court are unique among Canada’s courts because they are itinerant — they hear cases in all parts of Canada — as well as being bilingual … | Craig Forcese; Ian Greene; Martine Valois; Peter McCormick | 682 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The Fire and the AshesRekindling Democratic Socialism |
In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen … | Andrew Jackson | 180 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The Future is DisabledProphecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs |
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled – and what if that’s … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 334 | 2022 | View |
NEW! The Great Canadian Art Fraud CaseThe Group of Seven & Tom Thomson Forgeries |
In May 2016, Jon S. Dellandrea came into possession of a box of the last effects of an obscure artist, William Firth MacGregor. The contents of the box chronicled a major, and long forgotten, … | John S. Dellandrea | 192 | 2022 | View |