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In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country.

This collection takes a holistic view of well-being, seeking complementarities between Indigenous approaches to healing and Western biomedicine.

Wildfire season in the British Columbia Interior. Experienced firefighting pilot Rafe Mackie loses control of his airplane while doing a routine drop and plummets to his death.

It's July 1948, and peace has been declared in Europe.

1963 - Finn Kenny has fled life in Ottawa after being implicated in an RCMP purge of suspected Communist sympathisers and homosexuals. He ends up on Vancouver Island working as a groundskeeper.

A stunning memoir of coming of age and recovering from anorexia in the 2020s Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, in the wake of lockdown a

Early in the pandemic, medical personnel were our front lines. What was that like?

"One day, not long ago, I was kidnapped by a bitter but fun-loving South Korean art collector named Mr.

Meaghan Marie Hackinen's follow-up to her award-nominated debut South Away charts her unforgettable, twenty-five-day journey on the Trans Am Bike Race: a coast-to-coast ride across the entire

In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadia

If literature has often informed the creation of a national imaginary-a sense of common history and destiny-it has also complicated, even challenged, the unifying vision assumed in the formation of

"Extraordinary -- and totally engrossing.

In this candid and concise volume, Kyle Conway, author of The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, considers how we can open ourselves to others and to ideas that scare us by reading difficul

How to Clean a Fish describes an extended family stay in Portugal, full of food, adventure, and the search for home.

In this engaging volume, Jon Dron views education, learning, and teaching through a technological lens that focuses on the parts we play in technologies, from language and pedagogies to computers a