Recent News

Today, July 18th, 2017, marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, the famed English novelist whose works include Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.  Largely unnoticed as an author during her relatively short lifetime, Jane Austen and her six completed books are now recognized worldwide as some … Read More >

The first week of July marked the hundredth anniversary of the death of Tom Thomson, the renowned 20th-century Canadian artist whose influence was integral to the formation of the Group of Seven. Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies and Reproductions (2004) explores Thomson’s impact on Canadian art and … Read More >

Four months after McGill-Queen’s University Press published Omar Khadr, Oh Canada, Khadr, then twenty-six years old, was returned to Canada on 29 September 2012 after being imprisoned for ten years at the US-run detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Nearly five years later, the current Canadian government has … Read More >

Andy Huynh came to Canada as a teenager in the 1980s as one of about 70,000 Indochinese refugees who were granted entry to the country.  The story of his journey, and all of the memories associated with it, recently resurfaced unexpectedly when Huynh spotted a photograph of himself in a CBC article about Canada’s role … Read More >

Warren Buffett Invests in Canada, but Should You?
By Gretchen Morgenson

When Warren Buffett acts, investors notice. And after he took a roughly $300 million position last month in Home Capital Group, a troubled Canadian mortgage underwriter, some investors saw it as a vote of confidence not only in that company, but also in Canadian … Read More >

The Book: A Backstory
by Christopher Dummitt

Why would anyone ever write a book? I first started thinking about the book that would become Unbuttoned in 2003. And yet it is only this spring, fourteen years later, that the book was published. I’m inclined to agree that delayed gratification increases pleasure, but that is one heck of … Read More >

We are pleased to share that MQUP poet Margo Wheaton is a Canadian Authors Association 2017 Literary Award-winner.

The Unlit Path Behind the House (Spring 2016) won the Canadian Authors Fred Kerner Book Award. It was also a finalist for two other 2017 awards: the League … Read More >

On National Aboriginal Day, we are thrilled to share the first excerpt from upcoming Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws, in which co-author Marianne Ignace recounts a particular encounter during the beginning of her research and gathering of Secwépemc stories.

Marianne’s Story (from Introduction)

In October 1985, in the season that I have since … Read More >

Editors Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas’s book Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic (Spring 2017) has received a wonderful review by Laura Brehaut in the National Post (June 9, 2017).

Management of fire and wool, candle- and soap-making – Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide is a blueprint for survival in the … Read More >

We are very pleased to have John von Heyking, author of The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship (Spring 2016), as our guest blogger. The post is an excerpt from International Political Anthropology Vol. 10 (2017) No. 1: Index; this issue is dedicated to The Form of Politics and includes … Read More >