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May Day: A Graphic History of Protest traces the development of International Workers’ Day, May 1st, against the ever-changing economic and political backdrop in Canada.

Feminist, educator, Quaker, and physicist, Ursula Franklin has long been considered one of Canada’s foremost advocates and practitioners of pacifism.

Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada’s climatechange debate.

Eating Fire follows in the steps of Riordon’s popular 1996 book Out our way, on gay and lesbian life in the country (BTL, 1996).

Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers’ greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism

From its sudden emergence as a military force to be reckoned with in Syria and Iraq in June 2014 through its YouTube executions of hostages to its atrocious attacks in Paris in November 2015, the m

“Religion” is a term that the media often use without any clarification. But it is a loaded word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs.

The global number of people currently displaced from their home country—more than 50 million—is higher than at any time since World War II.

We were supposed to be in a"postfeminist" age. But recently we've seen a resurgence of feminist campaigning among women (and some men).

Virtually any commodity can move around the world to satisfy demand, but human beings have far less freedom. Many would-be migrants are forced to risk life and limb traveling illegally.

“What we must see,” Martin Luther King once insisted, “is that a riot is the language of the unheard.” In this new era of global protest and popular revolt,

Rarely a week goes by when juvenile delinquency or the Young Offenders Act are not discussed in the dominant media.

As the war on terror dominates world headlines and conflicts of all kinds abound, this No-Nonsense Guide provides a refreshing antidote. Can conflict be prevented?

Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World.

“Overseas aid” and “international development” are catch-all terms that cover a multitude of activities – and abuses.