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Getting Away With Murder

Since Cain killed Abel, the crime of murder has fascinated humans. So, too, do murder trials. They enable us to be voyeurs, peering from a safe distance into the dark recesses of the human capacity for ...

Patchworks of Purpose

To examine patterns of social assistance provision specific to particular provinces, Boychuk develops a five-fold typology consisting of “residual,” “market/family enforcement,” “market performance,” ...

Publicité de masse et masse publicitaire

Bien que le phénomène de la publicité soit au coeur de maints débats dans plusieurs disciplines, aucune étude historique d’envergure, au Canada comme au Québec, ne lui avait encore été consacrée. ...

Spuzzum

By (author) Annie York
Categories: Ethnic studies

Living on the banks of the turbulent Fraser River, the Nlaka’pamux people of Spuzzum have a long history of contact with non-aboriginal peoples. They watched as Hudson’s Bay Company employees hacked ...

Talk and Log

By (author) Jeremy Wilson
Categories: Political activism

For more than three decades, British Columbia’s old growth forests
have been a major source of political conflict. In Talk and
Log, Jeremy Wilson presents a comprehensive account of the rise of
the wilderness ...