So begins this collection of Stéphane Dion’s speeches from 1996 to 1998. Organized around four central themes, Straight Talk shows the breadth and strength of Dion’s convictions. Dion believes that ...

Compass Points is a radical new history of the twentieth century. Each section, organized by decade, grapples with crucial developments in politics, economics, society and culture--in Canada and abroad. ...

From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO ...

The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man
who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social,
and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of ...

In this collection of essays marking the centenary of Pearson’s birth, eighteen leading academics, journalists, public servants, and politicians recreate and reassess Pearson’s premiership from 1963 ...

Kinnear details how ordinary women – including early pioneers, East European immigrants, Native women, and professional women – lived and what they thought of the world of work, often telling their ...

In this book, Georges Sioui, who is himself Wendat, redeems the
original name of his people and tells their centuries-old history by
describing their social ideas and philosophy and the relevance of both ...

Although currently under attack from several directions, academic freedom is as important as it has ever been in enabling academics to teach, to carry out research, and to offer disinterested criticism ...

This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of
Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city — Williams
Lake — at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss
analyses ...