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Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards. "A hospital ... is like a roosting box: a communal space that provides ideal but temporary shelter for [the] vulnerable." In the aftermath of the First World War, a cash register factory in the west end of Toronto was renovated to treat wounded soldiers returning from war. From 1919 to the 1940s, thousands of soldiers passed through its doors. Some spent the remainder of their lives there. The Roosting Box is an exquisitely written history of the early years of the Christie Street Hospital and how war reshaped Canadian society.

"Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience." —Kerri Sakamoto, author of Floating City. When the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past define who we are, who we become? In April 1942, Suzanne's mother was an eight-month-old baby when her family was torn from their home in Victoria, British Columbia. Arriving at Vancouver's Hastings Park, they bunked in horse stalls for months before being removed to an incarceration camp in the Slocan Valley.

Explores the integral roles that Métis women assumed to ensure the survival of their communities during the fur trade era and onward. Métis Matriarchs examines the impact of prominent Métis women from across Western Canada from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, providing a rare glimpse into the everyday lives of these remarkable figures who were recognized as Matriarchs and respected for their knowledge, expertise, and authority within their families and communities.

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists, activists, educators, and writers, youth and elders come together to envision Indigenous futures in Canada and around the world. Discussing everything from language renewal to sci-fi, this collection is a powerful and important expression of imagination rooted in social critique, cultural experience, traditional knowledge, activism, and the multifaceted experiences of Indigenous people on Turtle Island. In Me Tomorrow..., Darrel J.

«C'est le premier meurtre qui est le plus difficile, mais l'habitude se crée rapidement... » Portée par des airs de jazz, Andrée A. Michaud signe ici un polar dont le héros pénètre bien malgré lui dans un univers où l'ombre du doute se fait de plus en plus pesante, soumettant ainsi le lecteur à une tension qui ne se relâchera pas avant qu'il n'ait tourné la dernière page de cette troublante confrontation avec la folie. Qui est Lazy Bird ? Un oiseau rare ou un oiseau de malheur ?

An ex-spy lifts the lid on life in the secret service. Andrew Kirsch didn't grow up watching spy movies or dreaming about being a real-life James Bond. He was hardly aware that Canada even had its own intelligence service—let alone knew what its officers did. But when a terrorist attack occurred near the office of his financial services job, suddenly fighting terrorism meant a lot more to him than the markets. Within 18 months, he had landed a job with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)—where he spent the next decade of his life.

Instant bestseller. Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America. When Debra Thompson moved to the United States in 2010, she felt like she was returning to the land of her ancestors, those who had escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad.

In an intensely revealing memoir written for his Canadian daughter, a man breaks a lifetime of silence about the traumas of his childhood in war-torn Vietnam and his years as a refugee in revolutionary Iran. Spanning decades and generations, this heartfelt memoir began as a series of letters from a worried father. Anh Duong had witnessed terrible things as a child during the Vietnam War, and later as a refugee in Iran during the revolution of the late 1970s.

Ce n'est pas la montagne que l'on conquiert, mais soi-même. Edmund Hillary—seule Québécoise ayant atteint le sommet du K2, Marie-Pier Desharnais est également la première femme des Amériques à avoir gravi le plus haut volcan de chacun des sept continents. Rien ne la prédestinait toutefois à devenir cette aventurière chevronnée. Ayant survécu par miracle au tragique tsunami de 2004, qui a touché l'Asie du Sud-Est, la jeune femme de 19 ans, victime d'un choc post-traumatique, trouve son salut dans l'étude de la gestion des catastrophes naturelles.

What does it mean to live beside an eroding democracy? As this powerful and timely book argues, that question will define the next generation of Canadian politics. As a congressional staffer in the United States, Rob Goodman watched firsthand as a rising authoritarian movement disenfranchised voters, sabotaged institutions, and brought America to the brink of a coup. Now, as a political theorist who makes his home in Canada, he has an urgent warning for his adopted country: The same forces that have upended democracy in America and around the world are on the move in Canada, too.