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War Junk
Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada
War Junk recounts the surprising history of leftover military munitions and supplies, revealing their complex political, economic, social, and environmental legacies in postwar Canada.
2022, Commended - C.P. Stacey Award
- Copyright year: 2020
King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land
The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae
This insider look at the forces that came together to make Canada’s reggae scene reaffirms the power of music to combat racism and build bridges between communities and cultures.
2021, Winner - Joseph Brant Award, Ontario Historical Society
- Copyright year: 2020
The Good Fight
Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy
The Good Fight is the insightful and entertaining biography of arguably the most important francophone diplomat and civil servant in Canadian history.
2020, Winner - J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, J.W. Dafoe Foundation
- Copyright year: 2019
The Way Home
Crafted from memories, legends, and art, this powerful memoir tells the uplifting story of an Indigenous man’s struggle to reconnect with his culture and walk in the footsteps of his father and the generations of Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw artists that came before him.
2020, Shortlisted - Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, The Writers' Trust of Canada
- Copyright year: 2019
A World without Martha
A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
A World without Martha is an unflinching yet compassionate memoir of how one sister’s institutionalization for intellectual disability in the 1960s affected the other, sending them both on separate but parallel journeys shaped initially by society’s inability to accept difference and later by changing attitudes towards disability, identity, and inclusion.
2020, Shortlisted - Bisexual Nonfiction, Lambda Literary Awards
- Copyright year: 2019
Canada on the United Nations Security Council
A Small Power on a Large Stage
This is the definitive history of the Canadian experience, both its successes and failures, on the world’s largest stage – the United Nations Security Council.
2020, Shortlisted - J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, J.W. Dafoe Foundation
2020, Shortlisted - Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, The Writers' Trust of Canada
- Copyright year: 2019