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Monty Haaviko, Winnipeg's favourite househusband, babysitter, and ex-con, is running for chief of Winnipeg's new police commision. It's almost honest work, except that he's been bribed to throw the election to his opponent, an ex-cop stooge of wealthy businessman, Cornelius Devanter. At the same time, Devanter's archenemy has paid Monty an even bigger bribe to ensure the ex-cop loses. Monty is happy to oblige both, but one on the campaign trail, he realises the good he can do for the citizens of Winnipeg if he wins. Meanwhile, all is not quiet on the Haaviko home front.

Bill and Julie live in thrifty middle-class wedded bliss with their 12-year-old son Sean. Julie brings home the bacon while Bill keeps house and frets over his never-ending PhD thesis: an anthropological study of the role of men in society. All is relatively well until Julie's ex-fiancé, the dashing and successful Blake Morgan, returns to Winnipeg with his wife and kids. While Bill takes solace in Blake's premature grey and pot belly, next to Blake's professional success Bill feels emasculated and questions what it means to be a man especially a domesticated one.

If This Is Freedom continues the story of struggle for Loyalist settlers in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. In the black settlement of Birchtown, times are especially hard for the former slaves. They face the difficulties of a hardscrabble existence and continued discrimination from their white counterparts. Like many desperate Birchtowners, Sarah Redmond has signed an indenture agreement, a work contract meant to protect her rights and ensure a living wage.

The Daughter Who Walked Away describes the tribulations of three generations of Iranian women. In 1919, a woman who can no longer afford to raise her nine-year-old niece, Batoul, marries the girl to the young son of a Shirazi family. Ashamed and traumatized, yet resourceful and resolute, Batoul rears her children to expect hardships and to endure them discreetly. Despite her best intentions, she plants the seeds of dysfunction. In 1967, Batoul's youngest, Mojegan, pursues a nursing career in Tehran. While intelligent and ambitious, Mojegan is naïve about intimate relationships.

This book is a moving contribution to the growing body of fictional writings about migrants and racialized women across transnational borders. An authentic description of events and stories that is profoundly touching.

Ten-year-old Cassie lives with her working-class family in 1919 Winnipeg. The Great War and Spanish Influenza have taken their toll, and workers in the city are frustrated with low wages and long hours. When they orchestrate a general strike, Cassie--bright, determined and very bored at school--desperately wants to help. She begins volunteering for the strike committee as a papergirl, distributing the strike bulletin at Portage and Main, and from her corner, she sees the strike take shape.

Land-Water-Sky follows the story of a vexatious shapeshifter (Nahga) that lives throughout the centuries from time immemorial.

Instituteur, Joseph Lormier quitte Montréal en 1919 pour aller enseigner dans le nord albertain. Il fonde le village de L’Avenir, berceau d’une paroisse canadienne-française. Mais lorsque la crise économique bat son plein, un marchand anglo-saxon sauve le village, causant tout un émoi parmi les villageois. D’une écriture limpide, Dans le muskeg plonge le lecteur au coeur d’un débat engagé contre l’étroitesse d’esprit et l’exclusivité.

Les Sept enseignements des Anishinaabeg (l’amour, la sagesse, l’humilité, le courage, le respect, l’honnêteté et la vérité) sont au cœur de ces sept histoires pour enfants. Se déroulant en milieu urbain et mettant en scène des enfants autochtones auxquels tous les jeunes lecteurs pourront s’identifier, ces histoires abordent les thèmes du foyer et de la famille. Kode connait beaucoup de choses, mais elle ne comprend pas ce que signifie "respect". Qui peut l'aider à comprendre le respect?

Qu'est-ce qu'un homme? Nait-on homme, ou le devient-on? Si l'on admet une definition beaucoup plus large de la masculinite, comment l'homme contemporain se reconnait-il homme? Que deviendra la masculinite au XXIe siecle? De quelles images et de quelles histoires nos jeunes gens s'inspireront-ils afin d'asseoir leur identite sexuelle? C'est pour tenter de suppleer a une lacune - celle d'une alternative a la masculinite traditionnelle,qui ne soit pas simplement l'homosexualite - que j'ai voulu publier ce recueil.