Democracy Rising describes the limits of Canadian democracy and how they are being expanded by a revolution in participatory democracy.Canada is one of the oldest continuous democracies in the world.
An exploration of the lives and works of the members of the Beaver Hall Group, and the women in it who went on to form a vital network of Canadian artists.This book portrays the lives and works of the
The participation of the Iroquois of Akwasasne, Kanesetake (Oka), Kahnawake, and Oswegatchie in the Seven Years' War is a long-neglected topic. The consequences of this struggle still shape Canadian h
The year was 1910, and signs of progress were in the air. That June, a new steam ferry for the Toronto Ferry Company was launched and christened Trillium. Only briefly mentioned in the local dailies a
The discovery of two headless corpses dressed in colonial clothing and locked in a grisly embrace draws Detectives Miranda Quin and David Morgan of the Toronto Police Service into a Gothic mixture of
After ten years in homicide together, Toronto detectives David Morgan and Miranda Quin are like a married couple, except for the sex. They know each other intimately and don't know each other at all.
It's been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influence
In the fall of 1956, the world was on the brink of war. Egyptian President Gamel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, and Britain, France, and Israel attacked him. Russia supported Nasser, and Soviet P
The Revolutionary War’s 1778 campaign, waged from Quebec and Niagara against the American frontiers by British and Native allies.Following Burgoyne’s disastrous campaign of 1777, the alliance between
A collection of haunting legends, delightful yarns, and spine-tingling ghost stories.Swathed in mist, surrounded by the secretive sea, wind wailing like the lost souls of sailors around its shores, Pr
Everything students, parents, and teachers need to know about debating and public speaking.Welcome to the world of school debating and public speaking, the best training ground for speaking, reasoning
A musical cold case has Cullen and Cobb back on the beat.On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster stepped into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shared the
Beware The Other …Alex is the loneliest boy at school. Not only are his parents away (again), but his beloved cat is missing. Plus, one morning his reflection in the haunted bathroom mirror at school
A gripping account of PTSD, and a stark reminder that, for many veterans, wars go on long after the last shot is fired.In the shadows and trenches of army life is a world where friends can become mons
Find out everything you need to know about air crashes and accidents, from what causes them to what you can do to survive.Planes have always crashed. Even Icarus plummeted to his death after an “equip
Across Canada peace officers put their lives on the line every day. From John Fisk in 1804, the first known Canadian policeman killed in the line of duty, to the four RCMP officers shot to death in Ma
Quinn might get used to the food, Work Bots, and creating the Blue Brick™ … but why are children all around him turning blue?Quinn Fleet, twelve, Packager, has only been at the Work Centre for three d
One of the great entrepreneurial success stories of Newfoundland and Canada.Harry Steele was born in Musgrave Harbour, an isolated outport on the eastern coast of Newfoundland. Harry went to universit
George Smitherman tells all about his successes and failures as a politician — in Ontario's legislature and in Toronto's city hall — and shares the joys and sorrows of his personal life.
Everything doesn't (always) happen for a reason.Whether or not there's a reason for infertility and pregnancy loss, these personal essays show the way forward is by going through the grief, not around
Do you hear the distant drums? And what about that weird screaming … Emma Blackwell used to love mermaids. Jonah Blackwell used to love pirates. And William Blackwell tried to be a good captain
Powerful accounts by genocide survivors; a journalist seeking to bear witness to their pain.Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, Kigali in Rwanda, and the ruins of ancient villages in Turkey — all vi
Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr walk into the famous Hotel Métropole and sit down at the author’s table to discuss the state of quantum mechanics today.Quantum mechanics seems to be just about a
He stayed out of the spotlight, but Leafs fans know J.P. Bickell cast a long shadow.A self-made mining magnate and the man who kept the Maple Leafs in Toronto and financed Maple Leaf Gardens, J.P. Bic
A transformative work that explodes assumptions about the importance of the Great Irish Potato Famine to Irish immigration to North America.Irish settlers were Canada’s largest immigrant group during
Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada provides genealogists and social historians with context and tools to understand the criminal justice system and locate sources on criminal activity and its conseq
"Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers is the first comprehensive and detailed study ever to be written of English emigration to Canada. The first of three books on the English in Canada, it considers the f
Why write in the first place, other than your grocery list? Eric Nicol believes it's the second-most satisfying thing you can do lying down. But it's not enough to want to write. You must need to writ
