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Rights and the City

Edited by Sandeep Agrawal
Afterword by Benjamin Davy

Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume’s contributors expose ...

The Bad Wife

Micheline Maylor’s The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should have been, told in a brave and unflinching voice. Pulling ...

Remembering Air India

On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329 people, most of them Canadians. Today this pivotal event in Canada’s history is hazily remembered, yet certain interests have shaped ...

There Are Not Enough Sad Songs

There is beauty
in the teacup
like dresses
requiring crinoline
or beaded purses
too small to carry
anything but anger.
— from “Inheritance”

Marita Dachsel’s third poetry collection explores parenthood, ...

Fundamentals of Public Relations and Marketing Communications in Canada

Experts in public relations, marketing, and communications have created the most comprehensive textbook specifically for Canadian students and instructors. Logically organized to lead students from principles ...

John Rae, Arctic Explorer

By John Rae
Edited by William Barr

John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae’s accomplishments is much greater. Over five expeditions, Rae mapped some 1,550 ...

Ghosts Still Linger

In the arena, she shot cigarettes and coins
from her trusting husband’s hand. Some women
wished she would miss.
—from “Little Sure Shot”

Kat Cameron’s poetry illuminates the unsung perspectives ...

Listen. If

first snow falling slow
hangs in the air
a curtain drifting there
thickening sight
—“Winter”

In this new collection, Douglas Barbour experiments with what he calls “rhythmically intense open form.” ...

Gospel Drunk

Gospel Drunk follows a speaker’s journey to find clarity and identity as he contemplates his Catholic upbringing and struggles with loneliness and alcohol addiction. Sharp, intoxicating imagery and ...

To float, to drown, to close up, to open

In this collection, E. Alex Pierce enters the territory of memory embedded in landscape where “language tied to the land” evokes the cadence of tidal rivers and creates a fluid world. She traces the ...