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It is the summer of 1933 and young Haven Cattrell, seeking work, finds himself abandoned in the small northern Ontario town of Davisville.

The fictional town of Liverwood’s main employer is the potash mine that seems to arc over the town and everything people do.

What’s the right way to be a feminist? Reconsidering Radical Feminism is not only a clear, precise summary of late-twentieth-century feminist debates about the politics of heterosexuality.

The creation of the Canada–US border in the Pacific Northwest is often presented as a tale of two nations, but beyond the macro-political dynamics is the experience of individuals.

In 1844, seven widows dared to cast ballots in an election in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote.

In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional.

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