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Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations by Daniel Macfarlane is a reinterpretation of the history of US-Canada relations through environmental and energy issues. In the guest blog below, Macfarlane gives us an introduction to the topic of his book.
Billions of dollars of goods and services cross the Canada-US border daily. Canada is … Read More >
October 16th, 2018 – For Immediate Release.
On the eve of federal cannabis legalization, many are questioning what this all means for Canada and Canadians. In May 2018 the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada held a major international conference on the policy challenges surrounding marijuana legalization in … 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 >
April is National Poetry Month. To mark the occasion, we asked Mark Abley, an MQUP acquisition editor and a poet himself, to reflect on how poetry fits into the press’s list.
Exactly twenty years ago, MQUP’s executive director, Philip Cercone, announced the birth of the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series. It was a departure for the … Read More >
Women Are Talking
By Elaine Craig, author of Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession
Women are talking about their experiences of sexual violence and harassment. They are doing so publicly, unapologetically, and in enormous numbers. They are encouraging other survivors of sexualized and gender-based violence to speak out, advocating the removal … Read More >
Join the authors of Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 as they embark on a five-day tour this February. There will be stops in Orillia, Toronto, and Winnipeg. Formats will include presentations, readings, signings, and a panel discussion.
We’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of George Cartwright’s Labrador Companion in order to do this blog post! Edited by Marianne P. Stopp, this fascinating book presents several newly discovered Cartwright manuscripts that document his experiences operating a series of merchant stations in southern Labrador between 1770 and 1786.
Although his focus is firmly on instruction in … Read More >
Russell A. Potter’s new book Finding Franklin, was recently reviewed by the National Post. The review came out just days before the discovery of the HMS Terror which has since fuelled Franklin fever in the news and with Franklin enthusiasts around the world!
Below is an excerpt from the review.
We are very pleased to announce that one of our books, Landscape Architecture in Canada, has won the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation of Landscape Studies!
The prize is awarded to the author of a book published within the past three years on a subject pertaining to landscape studies. This is the 2nd prize Landscape Architecture in … Read More >
Last week our MQUP colleagues, Ryan Van Huijstee and Elena Goranescu, attended the event in Ottawa announcing the completion of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Here are Ryan’s observations:
The words “moved” and “moving” were used frequently over the last week to describe the release of the Truth and Reconciliation … Read More >