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An explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when Catherine McKer

Civilians play crucial roles in building empires.

Starting in 1837, rebels in Upper and Lower Canada revolted against British rule in an attempt to reform a colonial government that they believed was unjust.

In 2011, political protests sprang up across the world.

How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together?

Caught Between Two Devils is based on the real-life experiences of Antanas Paskevicius, his wife Jadwyga, and his sister Maria.

La démocratie représentative canadienne se heurte à de grandes difficultés.

In the wake of Europe's so-called refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016, even traditionally open countries such as Sweden and Germany adopted hostile policies on refugees, closing borders and linkin

Captains of whaling vessels were experienced navigators of northern waters, and William Penny was in the vanguard of the whaling fraternity.

For many Canadians, the small province of New Brunswick on Canada's scenic east coast is "a nice place to visit but no place to live," plagued for generations by outmigration and eco

Lila, a young Black ex-cop, has been on leave from the police force ever since she shot an unarmed Black youth. She's moved back in with her mother, Karen, and is drinking beer for breakfast.

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined "Indigenous&qu

The third instalment in Jim Blanchard's popular history of early Winnipeg, "A Diminished Roar" presents a city in the midst of enormous change.

From founding the White Ribbon Campaign, the world's largest organized effort of men working to end violence against women, in the early 1990s, to his appointment as the only male member of th

The name Sri Lanka conjures two images.