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J.L. Ilsley: A Political Biography
This 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.
$27.95, Paperback
Toronto: City of Commerce 1800-1960
Archival images and contemporary photos illuminate the history of Toronto's businesses and industries.
$29.95, Paperback
Mining Country
Mining Country offers the stories of Canadian miners from past and present, from pre-settlement aboriginal mines to the development of Vancouver and Toronto as centres of global mining finance.$29.95, Paperback
Crisis in Canada's Policing
We 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.
$24.95, PaperbackStompin' Tom Connors
An in-depth look at the man who created the myth of Stompin’ Tom, updated with new information.
$24.95, PaperbackLyme Disease in Canada
An up-to-date resource for anyone worrying about ticks and Lyme disease, including how to deal with ticks and tick bites, the science of the bacteria causing Lyme disease, the controversies about treatment, the role of global warming in the spread of the disease, and resources for those experiencing the disease.
$24.95, PaperbackShare the Wealth!
This book shows how Canada’s steadily increasing wealth — which has mostly gone to the top one per cent over the last 20 years — can be successfully taxed to pay for the social programs Canadians need and want, from pharmacare and child care to better care for the elderly to much lower costs for post-secondary students.
$24.95, Paperback
Basic Income for Canadians
This book, updated in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, presents the evidence for the health and wellbeing benefits of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it.
$24.95, PaperbackHow Government Really Works
The authors lift the veil on the work bureaucrats do and offer practical advice on how to survive and even thrive in the bureaucracy.
$22.95, Paperback
John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Year Canada Was Cool
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.
$24.95, PaperbackThe Ku Klux Klan in Canada
The history of the racist terrorist KKK organization in Canada, from street violence, to media intimidation, to influencing elections and everything in-between.
$24.95, Paperback
The Canadian Labour Movement
The triumphs and setbacks of workers and the union movement in Canada
$27.95, PaperbackThe Attack on Nova Scotia Schools
An insiders history of 25 tumultuous years in public education in Nova Scotia
$22.95, PaperbackBlackBerry Town
A new history of the Blackberry innovation that documents how the resources and people of Kitchener-Waterloo supported, facilitated and benefited from the achievement that Blackberry represents$24.95, Paperback
Canada is Not Back
An insider's account of how Justin Trudeau makes foreign policy, and why his government has gone nowhere internationally.$24.95, PaperbackCanadian Culture in a Globalized World
Canada has developed an extensive system of cultural policies. These policies are now increasingly in conflict with a web of international free trade agreements.$24.95, PaperbackA New Kind of Union
Longtime trade unionist Fred Wilson's behind the scenes account of the merger between the CEP and CAW to form Unifor — Canada's largest private sector union.$24.95, PaperbackThe Tangled Garden
This book explains the breakdown of Canadian cultural industries and outlines that for them to be saved we must adapt cultural policy to the digital age.$24.95, PaperbackBeyond Shelters
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.$24.95, Paperback
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