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Earth for All

The economic operating system keeps crashing. It’s time to upgrade to a new one.

Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing ...

The First Century of the International Joint Commission

The relationship between Canada and the United States is defined by our shared waterways. This book brings together a wide-ranging field of experts in a definitive history of the International Joint Commission—one ...

Organizing the 1%

Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But corporate power ...

Capitalism: A Crime Story

A mugger says to a stranger, “Give me your wallet or I will beat you to pulp!” It is a crime. An employer says to a worker: “Adding lung-saving ventilation will reduce my profit. Give me back some ...

Hunting the Northern Character

By (author) Tony Penikett
Categories: Indigenous peoples

Canadian politicians, like many of their circumpolar counterparts, brag about their country’s “northern character” but what do they mean, exactly? Southern perspectives fail to capture northern ...

The Servant State

By (author) Geoffrey McCormack & Thom Workman
Foreword by David McNally
Categories: Political economy

In The Servant State, McCormack and Workman explore Canada’s experience through the “age of austerity” and highlight how this experience has been shaped by the exigencies of capitalist development ...

Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crunch, a pending era of budgetary austerity looms over Canada. Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises provides a roadmap through the difficult fiscal decisions ...

The Great Revenue Robbery

For decades, the right has flooded the airwaves and taken over the political podiums with its anti-tax hysteria. But Canadians are waking up to the simple truth that taxes are the price we pay for civilization, ...

Imperialist Canada

By (author) Todd Gordon
Categories: Development studies

Imperialist Canada exposes Canada’s imperialist past and present, at home and across the globe. Todd Gordon interweaves histories of Indigenous dispossession in Canada with the cold facts of Canadian ...

Economic Democracy

By (author) Allan Engler
Categories: Social classes

Identifying capitalism as a system of privately owned corporations, this book envisions an alternative, more equitable form of economic organization within a democracy. Challenging the current system, ...