National Network for Equitable Library Service

Libby Davies is a Canadian activist and politician from British Columbia.

Democracy is becoming a toxic environment, rife with trolls, bots, fake news and computational propaganda. Why, and what can be done?

On a day-to-day basis, what does a newly elected Member of Parliament do? How does the House of Commons work?

Offers a first-hand view of the inner workings of the Canadian federal government, with a particular focus on the interplay between the Prime Minister's Office, the Privy Council Office, the f

For years, the prospect of parliamentary reform has been a hot-button issue in Canada.

In The Queer Evangelist, Rev. Dr.

Halifax women won the Second World War--but not in the ways you might have been told.

1970 was the last year of the Beatles and the first year of the supersonic Concorde--a time of new possibilities and social upheaval, and Jennifer Hosten, a young airline hostess from the Caribbean

On August 27, 1927, five women gathered at a house on Edmonton's Southside to sign a letter that would change the course of Canadian history.

Canadians often see politicians as trained seals who vote on command and repeat robotic talking points. Politicians are torn by dilemmas of loyalty to party versus loyalty to voters.

Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron.

For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada.

There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, yet it is in crisis everywhere we look.

For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy

Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum.