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Caroline Kearney faced a heartbreaking dilemma. In 1865 she was newly widowed, thirty-one years old, and the mother of six children.

When Gordon Campbell’s Liberal government won a massive majority in British Columbia in 2001, the premier immediately fulfilled his pledge to cut personal income taxes.

Unlike most public servants, top administrators – those who manage thousands of personnel and oversee millions of dollars in public spending – are appointed by the head of government.

Inside the Campaignis a behind-the-scenes look at the people involved in an election campaign and the work they do.

Who isthe juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire?

This book tells the story of a First Nation’s single-minded quest for justice.

The process by which Supreme Court judges are appointed is traditionally a quiet affair, but this certainly wasn’t the case when Prime Minister Stephen Harper selected Justice Marc Nadon – a federa

Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade designed to appeal to tourists.

With compelling insight, Canada 1919examines the concerns of Canadians in the year following the Great War: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the rising farm lobb

Since the first atomic weapon was detonated in 1945, Canadians have debated not only the role of nuclear power in their uranium-rich land but also their country’s role in a nuclear world.

How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom?

The end of the Second World War saw a “crisis of white masculinity” brought on by social change.

As the global population ages, disability demographics are shifting.

Women are the fastest growing group of incarcerated people in Canada. A Better Justice?offers a carefully reasoned analysis of alternative, community-based justice programs.

Unfulfilled legal needs are at a tipping point in much of the Canadian justice system.