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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.

Awards

2021, Winner - Joseph Brant Award, Ontario Historical Society

  • Copyright year: 2020
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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.

Awards

2020, Winner - J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, J.W. Dafoe Foundation

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

Awards

2020, Shortlisted - Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, The Writers' Trust of Canada

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

Awards

2020, Shortlisted - Bisexual Nonfiction, Lambda Literary Awards

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

Awards

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
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Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Charting Colonial Trajectories

Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional historical accounts to consider the national and transnational colonial dimensions of the Komagata Maru incident.

Awards

2020, Commended - Best Edited Collection, Canadian Studies Network

  • Copyright year: 2019
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