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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 >
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 >
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 International and Universal Exposition, we’ve pulled some titles from past catalogues to help celebrate the monumental event we all know as Expo ’67.
One could argue the exploration of electoral reform right after our government abandons the idea would be inutile. However, considering an NDP-sponsored petition calling on the Liberals to uphold their promise of electoral reform reached over 130,000 signatures, and was just presented to the House of Commons on March 23, 2017, … Read More >
This year marks the centenary of two major events of World War I, the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun. To commemorate, why not add Invasion 14, an epic novel recounting the German occupation of northern France during World War I, to your summer reading list?
Based on personal experience, survivor testimony, and documentary … 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 >
MQUP was proud to take part in a tribute to Terry Fenge at a conference in Ottawa this week. Terry co-edited two books for MQUP, including the new collection Keeping Promises: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada. He died of a sudden heart attack in early November, soon … Read More >
McGill-Queen’s University Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Erika Dyck as co-editor of the McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society book series. She will join series co-editor Professor J.T.H. Connor of Memorial University, replacing the retiring Professor Emeritus Samuel O. Freedman.
Erika Dyck is Professor in the … Read More >
Nancy J. Turner will speak at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada in celebration of University Press Week on November 11, 2015 @ 5:00 pm.
Admission is free, but space is limited. Please RSVP at misc.iecm@mcgill.ca .
Order Nancy Turner’s Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of … Read More >