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Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks
Organized crime and the fight for immigrant workers’ rights. Unforgettable events and a lively cast of characters all paint a vivid picture of Toronto during the 1960s and 1970s.
$27.95, PaperbackSeven Days in Halifax
Brings to life a dramatic and forgotten episode in Halifax’s recent history, where the ignorance, incompetence and racism of the city’s power structure was laid bare.
$27.95, PaperbackToronto's Birds
Which birds you can find, and where…in the urban core of Toronto!
$27.95, PaperbackBreaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge
Neoliberalism – idealizing free-market capitalism – sets the boundaries for how we are governed in Canada, no matter who is in power. Author Alex Himelfarb explores why these ideas persist when the need for dramatic action on issues like inequality and global warming is obvious to all.
$27.95, PaperbackColonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500–1890
Colonialism and Capitalism: A New History of Canada offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are tied to the creation of a richly endowed, wealthy but very unequal first world country.
$39.95, HardcoverThe Trudeau Record: Promise v. Performance
An authoritative review of Justin Trudeau's tenure, with 25 independent experts weighing in on his promises and performance.
$27.95, PaperbackCanada's State Police
The 150 year legacy of the RCMP, Canada’s national state police.
$27.95, PaperbackGigs, Hustles, & Temps
“Precarious work” contributes to rampant inequality, increased insecurity, and the crisis of public and mental health. “Gigs, Hustles, and Temps” explains why.
$27.95, PaperbackFrom Layton to Singh
An incisive analysis of the federal NDP since 2000, examining the ongoing, unresolved tension between the party’s idealistic grassroots base and centrist bureaucracy at its core.
$24.95, PaperbackRighting Canada's Wrongs 10 volume set
Pamela Hickman, Arlene Chan, Rona Arato, Gloria Ann Wesley, Jean Smith Cavalluzzo, Melanie Florence, Ken Setterington, Frank James Tester, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, Andrew Bomberry, Teresa Edwards, Masako Fukawa, Lindsay Gibson, Ilan Danjoux, Roland CaseFor educators seeking to build anti-racism learning into Canadian history classes, this 10-book set of classroom materials is an invaluable resource. Each book addresses a major instance of official racism and discrimination spanning more than 150 years. Also included is a free teachers guide to help integrate these titles into class curriculums.
$349.95, SetInterest ages: 13-18Canada Must Think for Itself
Irvin Studin, one of Canada’s foremost thinkers & strategists, argues that Canada must learn to think for itself in order to survive and succeed in the post-pandemic world. He charts a clear path for asserting Canadian sovereignty and independence in the face of challenges from China, Russia and the United States and overcoming domestic crises.
$27.95, PaperbackVancouver Ltd.
Donald Gutstein reveals the tangled web of corporate ownership and influence, family relationships and social contacts which held the Vancouver business establishment together in the 1970s
$29.95, PaperbackCorporate Rules: The Real World of Business Regulation in Canada
Corporations and their lobbyists have captured control of most Canadian regulatory bodies. How this happened is documented by field experts, insiders, academics and whistleblowers.
$27.95, PaperbackJ.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, 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, PaperbackBasic 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, PaperbackJohn 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, PaperbackCanada is Not Back
An insider's account of how Justin Trudeau makes foreign policy, and why his government has gone nowhere internationally.$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, PaperbackShopping CartScroll to Top