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What has it meant to be a man in Canada?

Yuan Shikai (1859–1916) has been both hailed as China’s George Washington for his role in the country’s transition from empire to republic and condemned as a counter-revolutionary.

What happens when health care providers meet patients whose religious views contrast with mainstream health practices?

In the 1950s and ’60s, co-operative jazz clubs opened their doors in Canada in response to new forms of jazz expression emerging after the war and the lack of performance spaces outside major urban

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission urged a better understanding of Aboriginal law for all Canadians.

As the nineteenth century ended, the popularity of sport hunting grew and Ontario wildlife became increasingly valuable.

Since the 2008 economic meltdown, market-driven globalization has posed new challenges for governments.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau – radical progressive or unavowed socialist? His legacy remains divisive.

Breaching the Peace tells the story of the ordinary citizens who are standing up to the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that has propelled it forward

Military education was the lifeblood of the armies, navies, and air forces of the British Empire and an essential ingredient for success in both war and peace.

Whatever deficits remain in the Canadian project to make justice available to all, class actions have been heralded as a success.

The idea of political unity contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members.

The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often celebrated as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women.

Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society.

As a national network of roads and hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. Thumbing a Ride examines its rise and fall in the 1970s, drawing on records from the time.