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Starting in the 1930s, urban police forces from New York City to Montreal to Vancouver established youth squads and crime prevention programs, dramatically changing the nature of contact between co

Much has been written by others about the relationship Irving Layton and Harriet Bernstein shared, and most of it is inaccurate.

Iconoclasm - the alteration, destruction, or displacement of icons - is usually considered taboo or profane.

Evangelicals have been scandalized by their association with Donald Trump, their megachurches summarily dismissed as "religious Walmarts." In The Subversive Evangelical Peter Schuurman sh

Their whole bodies are ready for sleep, but sleep doesn't come. The cold has deserted winter, causing the polar bears in the zoo to pace in an endless quest for sleep.

This book examines the character and relevance of remembrance, inviting readers to think creatively and deeply about the ways that memories are transmitted, recorded, and distorted through time and

What would it feel like if the world emptied out? Lowell Garrish has lost everything-his parents, his grandma, the music the waves make on the shore in Nova Scotia.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Canadian government relocated people living in rural and urban communities, often against their will, in order to alleviate the all-too-common lack of social servic

Children of a Faraway War tells the story of Wendy and Robbie, two Australian-born sisters, now in their seventies, and their life-changing quest to learn the truth about their father who died in E

The 2008 global financial crisis brought the world's economy closer to collapse than ever before. Has enough been done to prevent another crisis?

Canada's recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects.

Over the past fifty years, Canada's Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a "super-province" deliveri

Until the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Mackenzie King prided himself on never publicly saying anything derogatory about Hitler or Mussolini, unequivocally supporting the appeasement policies of

Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, the world continues to grapple with this public health challenge.

At a time when people must work harder than ever to stand out from the crowd, the word creativity can seem vague and overused. But what exactly is creativity?