2021
Showing 17–32 of 1314 results
Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! Class ActionHow Ontario's Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force |
In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions … | Andy Hanson | 276 | 2021 | View |
Crip KinshipThe Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid |
The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to … | Shayda Kafai | 201 | 2021 | View |
Crisis in Canada’s PolicingWhy Change is So Hard, and How We Can Get Real Reform in our Police Forces |
In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at … | Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell | 224 | 2021 | View |
Decolonize Hipsters |
Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that … | Grégory Pierrot | 148 | 2021 | View |
Discrimination StoriesExclusion, Law, and Everyday Life |
Despite growing societal and media attention to problems of discrimination in Canadian society, legal concepts in equality and anti-discrimination law are not widely … | Colleen Sheppard | 224 | 2021 | View |
DividedPopulism, Polarization, and Power in the New Saskatchewan |
Divided looks at the last fifteen years in Saskatchewan, during which time the Saskatchewan Party government sought to reforge the province’s image into the New Saskatchewan: brash, … | Cora Sellers; JoAnn Jaffe; Patricia W. Elliot | 352 | 2021 | View |
Fight to WinInside Poor People’s Organizing |
AJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information … | A. J. Withers | 305 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint TeaHow I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions |
As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and … | Alex Wood | 292 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Growing and Eating SustainablyAgroecology in Action |
Growing and Eating Sustainably shines light on the process of agroecological transition by showcasing the experiences of growers and eaters in southern Brazil, a country where agrarian movements … | Dana James | 137 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing, 2nd Edition |
Lawyers like to think they are good writers. Their non-lawyer readers are more likely to describe their writing as turgid, pedantic, Latin-filled, jargon-ridden, misspelt, ungrammatical, and … | Neil Guthrie | 299 | 2021 | View |
Happily Ever OlderRevolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care |
While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older … | Moira Welsh | 253 | 2021 | View |
NEW! History of the Jews in Quebec |
The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time, thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the … | Pierre Anctil | 490 | 2021 | View |
Imagined TruthsMyths from a Draft-Dodging Poet |
Memory is not only selective, it’s an amazing liar, con artist and spin doctor. History is what we choose to remember about the past in order to justify the present. Richard Lemm grew up in … | Richard Lemm | 272 | 2021 | View |
NEW! In Praise of RetreatFinding Sanctuary in the Modern World |
From pilgrim paths to forest cabins, and from rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation, In Praise of Retreat explores the pleasures and powers of this ancient … | Kirsteen MacLeod | 370 | 2021 | View |
IndigenomicsTaking a Seat at the Economic Table |
It is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. … | Carol Anne Hilton | 274 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Indigenous TorontoStories That Carry This Place |
Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, … | Brian Wright-McLeod; Denise Bolduc; Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere; Rebeka Tabobondung | 304 | 2021 | View |