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Thank you to everyone who came out to this week’s launch events for Brooke Jeffrey’s new book,
Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Agenda.
Brooke Jeffrey, a professor at Concordia University and former policy adviser to the Liberal Party, gave talks in Montreal and Ottawa on the major questions addressed in her book, specifically: the strategies that brought Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Party to a … Read More >
Among Europe’s major contemporary poets, Estonia’s Jaan Kaplinski offers a rare vision of human advancement and fulfillment: the less we intervene the more we flourish.
But how then can we remain involved in what evolves of its own accord? How can we move away from a life forged by human design towards a quietly attentive … Read More >
Toronto Reference Library
(Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium)
February 12th
7:00 – 8:15 PM
As part of Black History Month and the eh List Author Series, MQUP author and Giller Prize jury member Cecil Foster will be speaking with Donna Bailey Nurse about his life and latest books, Genuine Multiculturalism and Independence (Harper Collins).
Read Cecil’s guest post on our blog: Who owns a country?
About … Read More >
Joanne Findon, author of Seeking Our Eden, was a guest on CBC Radio New Brunswick’s Shift program to discuss her new biography on Sarah Jameson Craig, a 19th-century woman from rural New Brunswick.
In her interview, Findon talks about Craig’s unpublished diaries, her involvement with dress reform – the “American costume” – as well as alternative health movements … Read More >
Next Tuesday, January 27, 8:00 PM
Dilys Leman will be a featured speaker at the Ottawa Tree Reading Series with author rob mclennan, reading from her first full-length collection of poetry, THE WINTER COUNT.
About THE WINTER COUNT:
Although relatively few First Nations joined the 1885 Métis insurgence, the Canadian … Read More >
The MLA (Modern Language Association) 2015 Convention kicks off tomorrow in Vancouver! We’ll be at the Booth 519 and 521 with our ACP colleagues, so be sure to stop by and have a look at our featured titles on language and literature.
Speaking of which..
Michael Saenger’s INTERLINGUICITY, INTERNATIONALITY, AND SHAKESPEARE is a new collection of essays … Read More >
Ursula Franklin is a special guest on today’s episode of CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers for a wide-ranging conversation about her life, career, and recent release Ursula Frankin Speaks, a collection of speeches and interviews from 1986 to 2012 that were retrieved and restored from audio and visual recordings with the help of Dr. … Read More >
Brian Young, author of Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec, was on CTV Montreal earlier today discussing his new book on the Taschereaus and McCords with Mutsumi Takahashi.
History has often ignored the influence in modern Quebec of family dynasties, patriarchy, seigneurial land, and traditional institutions. Following the ascent of four generations … Read More >
Judith Cowan, author of The Permanent Nature of Everything, participated in the most unique interview we’ve ever seen! Part of a special event to kick off the literary season with Culture Mauricie, Cowan rode in a bike rickshaw through Trois-Rivières to discuss her memoir with Anne-Marie Lemay of Radio-Canada’s Chez nous le matin.
John Dunning’s memoir, You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten, is getting lots of buzz leading up to the Toronto book launch at Ben McNally Books this Thursday! Quill & Quire gave the memoir a starred review:
The best filmmaker memoirs are the ones that feel like movies themselves, whether it’s the epic, melodramatic sweep … Read More >