John W. Graham never imagined that his apprenticeship in the Canadian Foreign Service would have him stationed in Cuba covertly monitoring Soviet military operations on behalf of the CIA. Other assignments, ...

O. D. Skelton: The Work of the World, 1923-1941 is a lively and compelling trip through the letters, diary entries, and official memoranda of O. D. Skelton, one of the most important and influential civil ...

In Building the Orange Wave, author Brad Lavigne recounts the dramatic story of how Jack Layton and his inner circle developed and executed a plan that turned the NDP into a contender for government, defying ...

For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured ...

Writing a life of Bennett, who reportedly destroyed his correspondence every seven years, presents challenges for the biographer. Yet, as P. B. Waite shows, Bennett's lasting contributions to Canada are ...

Donald J. Savoie holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at the Université de Moncton.

Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a radical politician, the first Communist elected to Canadaís House of Commons, and the only woman elected in 1940. But despite her remarkable career, until ...

Ramsay Cook was awarded the 2005 Canada Council Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the author of Watching Quebec and general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire ...

During his 18-year reign as premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis dominated the province and shaped it to his image. A brilliant orator and a scathing wit, Duplessis exercised complete control over his ...