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Volume 1, part 2 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on Canada’s Residential Schools carries the story of the residential school system from the end of the Great Depression to the closing of the last remaining schools in the late 1990s. It demonstrates that the underfunding and unsafe living conditions that characterized the … Read More >
Two chairs were left empty on the stage at this week’s official release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The chairs were there to honour the memory of the children who never returned from the residential schools.
Below, a sobering excerpt from Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials, volume 4 of … Read More >
THE WRITINGS OF DAVID THOMPSON, VOLUME 2
The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated Texts
Edited by William E. Moreau
David Thompson’s Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and … Read More >
NEW RELEASE: Ken Cuthbertson’s new book, A COMPLEX FATE, is the first biography of William L. Shirer, one of the most provocative and influential American journalists of the twentieth century.
Shirer (1904-1993) was a prominent member of the legendary “Murrow boys”, a group of CBS journalists who gave their North American audiences a visceral sense of … Read More >
Last week marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Rupert Brooke, one of the 20th century’s most famous poets and the “handsomest young man in England”, according to W.B. Yeats.
Rupert Brooke (b. 1887) died on April 23, 1915, two days before the start of the Battle of Gallipoli, and three weeks after his poem “The Soldier” was read from … Read More >
Friday, April 17th: A Conversation about Trojan-Horse Aid
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Cafe Nostalgica
Ottawa
This Friday, join Susan Walsh, USC Canada Executive Director and author of Trojan-Horse Aid, for a reading and conversation about her new book.
This event is free. Click here for event details
Trojan-Horse Aid is a frank account about Andean aid that asks … Read More >
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 >
NEW RELEASE: Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Agenda
Liberal insider Brooke Jeffrey analyses Stephen Harper’s drive to create a new Conservative Canada.
Providing fascinating insight into the origins of a new conservative vision for the economy, federalism, and domestic and foreign policies, Brooke Jeffrey explores Harper’s successes and failures, and evaluates the likely outcome of his long-term agenda … Read More >
TURKEY AND THE ARMENIAN GHOST, an English translation of the award-winning book La Turquie et le fantôme arménien, is a compelling portrait of the aftermath of the Armenian genocide and the enduring struggle to have it officially recognized.
Taking the reader into remote mountain regions, tiny hamlets, and the homes of traumatized … Read More >
Can blockades and occupations bring positive change in Canada’s Aboriginal communities?
In Blockades or Breakthroughs?, edited by Yale D. Belanger and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, contributors debate the importance and effectiveness of blockades and occupations as political and diplomatic tools for Aboriginal people.
Offering an in-depth survey of occupations, blockades, and their legacies, from 1968 to the present, this … Read More >