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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.

The 1940 Ogdensburg Agreement entrenched a formal defence relationship between Canada and the United States – but was Canadian sovereignty upheld?

Political Elites in Canada offers a timely look at Canadian political power brokers and how they are adapting to a fast-paced digital media environment.

In the 1990s, headlines about declining caribou populations grabbed international attention.

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The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering politician, a New Woman who tested Canadian democracy.

What do we mean by left wing or right wing?

In this first-ever international history of the influential feminist movement Wages for Housework, Louise Toupin draws on extensive archival research and interviews with the movement’s founders and

The idea of Canada as a consumer society was largely absent before 1890 but familiar by the mid-1960s.

Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, an

There is increasing pressure on university scholars to reach beyond the “ivory tower” and engage in collaborative research with communities.

Migrant workers, though long welcomed in Canada for their labour, are often excluded from both workplace protections and basic social benefits such as health care, income assistance, and education.

Canadian members of Parliament (MPs) are often dismissed as “trained seals,” helpless to do anything other than take commands from party leaders.

Lacrosse has been a central element of Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous ide

Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition.