In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita ...

La violence, et particulièrement la violence en contexte amoureux, est un phénomène social qui nous heurte et nous indigne d’autant plus qu’elle perdure malgré les avancées du féminisme.

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Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons from the calamitous Halifax explosion—the worst non-natural disaster in North America pre-911. The book explores how the explosion influenced ...

Using archival research, media analysis, laws and statistics, and a series of interviews, Asal offers a thorough examination of the institutions that Arab migrants and their descendants built, and the ...

In the second edition of About Canada: Disability Rights, Deborah Stienstra explores the historical and current experiences of people with disabilities in Canada, as well as the policy and advocacy responses ...

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when ...

Resilience is Futile is a page-turning true story of being stalked by an ex-partner. Award-winning feminist advocate Julie Lalonde, “Mixes humour and horror, irony and moments of acute, brutally honest ...

Marginaux et fiers de l’être, c’est la chronique des événements qui ont jalonné le parcours d’un travailleur de rue/pilote d’avion/journaliste devenu éditeur, et de l’organisme communautaire ...

The author documents the consequences of sexual abuse by members of the clergy and encourages the victims to walk the path of healing. He analyzes the causes, the necessary spiritual conversions and structural ...