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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
Share 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, Paperback
How 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, Paperback
Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs
Experts from across the country investigate the "smart city" trend in urban planning as it is showing up in different Canadian municipalities.
$22.95, 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, Paperback
The 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, Paperback
Beyond 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
Oil and World Politics
Petroleum is at the root of most conflicts in the world today. It infiltrates politics and is closely associated with power. This book offers new understanding of what has been happening in world's "hot spot" countries.$27.95, Paperback
Honest Politics Now
This book critically analyzes changes introduced and implemented over the last two decades intended to deal with ethical issues in politics using high-profile political scandals as case studies. With contributions from experts from across the country, this book explores the standards of accountability to which Canadian politicians are being held.
$24.95, Paperback
Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick
The little-known story of democratic-minded New Brunswick Loyalists who refused to acquiese to rule by their betters$22.95, Paperback
Health and Wealth
Researchers are now discovering that it's not the richest countries that have the best health: it's the most egalitarian.
$35.00, Paperback
Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality
Agnes Macphail, Canada's first woman MP, is a heroine for our times: an accomplished politician, committed feminist and a complex, well-rounded human being.$16.95, Paperback
Business and Social Reform in the Thirties
This book challenges the commonly accepted view that governments enacted social reforms in the 1930s in response to demands for more equitable redistribution of wealth in a time of trouble, robbing from the rich to give to the poor.
$16.95, Paperback
The Age of Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King played a vital role in shaping Canadian politics, economics and international relations from 1900 to the present. His importance is indicated by the energy of Liberal party historians in creating an official version of life.
$16.95, Paperback
Working People
This book is a portrait of the people and events of a working-class Toronto neighbourhood under pressure from developers and middle-class renovators.$14.95, Paperback
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