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We’ve selected Michel Anctil’s Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms as the August Book of the Month. For those unfamiliar with the program, MQUP offers 30% off a new or best selling book each month. Simply add the book to your shopping cart on our website and … Read More >

On 5 July 1911 Lucy Maud Montgomery married Ewen MacDonald in Park Corner, Prince Edward Island. Inspired by this anniversary, we are revisiting four titles that situate her writing in connection with either place, nature, or war.

June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day. This is a day for all Canadians to recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Although these groups share many similarities, they each have their own distinct heritage, language, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs. That is … Read More >

As a lead up to National Indigenous Peoples Day, we’ve compiled a reading list to add to the celebration of the unique heritage and diverse cultures of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq’ey’s-kucw
By Marianne Ignace and Ronald E Ignace
Foreword by Bonnie Leonard

An exemplary work … Read More >

The following introduction and video was originally published by Concordia University. 

On 11 June 2018, Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild was awarded a 2018 Concordia Honorary Doctorate. In his closing, he challenges the Falculty of Arts and Science graduates to read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action, urging them to “pick one that … Read More >

“We disrupted a conference about May 68 … telling speakers: ‘“You commemorate, we start again.”’

Valerie Costa-Kostritsky, a journalist based in London and Moscow, has written for the LRB Blog on the student protests that escalated this May during a commemoration of the protests of May 1968. Costa-Kostritsky outlines in detail the progression of the … Read More >

Leaving Christianity: Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945 looks at why Canadians started to walk away from organized Christianity in the 1960s and how that defection became an exodus. Drawing on a wide array of national and denominational statistics, Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald document the true extent of the decline, the timing of … Read More >

When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly securing his privacy for good. Yet twenty-five years after King’s death, the public was bombarded with stories about “Weird Willie,” the prime minister … Read More >

We’re excited to announce our Fall 2018 catalogue is officially out, in both hard-copy and digital form. Absorb it cover to cover with the digital Flipbook or download the PDF and read at your leisure. Each forthcoming title can also be found on our website. Happy browsing!

April 26 is this year’s Poem in your Pocket Day. Originally organized by the Acadamy of American Poets, participation simply means carrying a poem in your pocket for the day to share with anyone and everyone, wherever you are! We’ve selected Julie Paul’s ‘Weight of the World’ from her 2017 collection, The Rules of … Read More >