Home Truths
Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis
With Canadians burdened by the world’s highest household debt after decades of failed housing policy, Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis shows what went wrong, and how it can be fixed.
- Copyright year: 2024
Report from a Last Survivor
- Copyright year: 2024
Shifting Gears
Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics
Shifting Gears tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an emphasis on transformative activism to transactional partnerships.
- Copyright year: 2024
Local Governance in Transition
Toward Sustainable Canadian Communities
Local Governance in Transition presents a framework for conversations around technological, ecological, and economic challenges – and encourages innovative thinking for those interested in exploring sustainable solutions.
- Copyright year: 2024
Triumph and Solidarity
BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression
- Copyright year: 2023
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity
What is Canada? This new look at “Canada” shows how the country’s prime ministers have consciously worked to shape national identity through their speeches and rhetoric.
- Copyright year: 2024
Building a Special Relationship
Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61
This book takes a compelling look at how bilateral diplomacy in an era wracked by the Cold War created a culture of cooperation between Canada and the United States that endures to the present day.
- Copyright year: 2024
Political Activist Ethnography
Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle
- Copyright year: 2023
Land and the Liberal Project
Canada’s Violent Expansion
Land and the Liberal Project explores the “improving” ideas that informed the expansion of Canada from coast to coast, exposing the justifications for state violence and appropriation of Indigenous territory, thus challenging our assumptions about Canadian sovereignty.
- Copyright year: 2024
Broken City
Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis
Broken City argues that skyrocketing urban land prices drive our global housing market failure – so, how did we get here, and what can be done about it?
- Copyright year: 2024
Canada’s Surprising Constitution
Unexpected Interpretations of the Constitution Act, 1982
Canada’s Surprising Constitution asks why the Constitution Act, 1982, keeps generating unexpected interpretations and outcomes.
- Copyright year: 2024
Counting Matters
Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada
Counting Matters emphasizes the importance of gender measurement as a distinct policy and social phenomena while exposing the flaws of the technocratic assumption that all aspects of gender equality can be strictly quantified.
- Copyright year: 2024
Constraining the Court
Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era
Constraining the Court considers what happens when a statute involving a significant public policy issue is declared unconstitutional – and government disagrees.
- Copyright year: 2024
Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada
Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada brings together experts from across the country to share their perspectives on how energy systems can respond to climate change, enhance social justice, respect local cultures and traditions – and still make financial sense.
- Copyright year: 2023
A Healthy Future
Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis
This riveting insider’s account of how the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled in one of Canada’s hardest-hit provinces draws on the lessons learned to provide a hopeful vision for building a healthier future.
- Copyright year: 2023
The Challenges of a Secular Quebec
Bill 21 in Perspective
The Challenges of a Secular Quebec opens up the debates that gave rise to a controversial law on state religious neutrality, taking an open-minded look at how secularism is understood and how it has imposed itself in the Quebec social space.
- Copyright year: 2023
Silent Partners
The Origins and Influence of Canada’s Military-Industrial Complex
Silent Partners delves into the shadowy world of security and national defence to shine a light on the influence they hold in Canadian society.
- Copyright year: 2023
Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work
Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work invites readers to engage reflexively in critical human rights practice by admitting discomfort and dilemma into conversations about ethics.
- Copyright year: 2023
A Culture of Justification
Vavilov and the Future of Administrative Law
A Culture of Justification examines how a groundbreaking case involving undercover spies and a man’s fight for citizenship helped the Supreme Court of Canada forge a consensus on the future of one of the most important areas in Canadian law.
- Copyright year: 2023
North of America
Canadians and the American Century, 1945–60
North of America takes a fresh, sharp-eyed look at how Canadians of all stripes reacted to political, economic, and cultural events and influences emanating from postwar America.
- Copyright year: 2023
Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy
Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats is an incisive look at the history of Canadian foreign policy through the actions of prime ministers from Sir John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau.
- Copyright year: 2023
King and Chaos
The 1935 Canadian General Election
King and Chaos is the first close study of the issues, personalities, and significance of the 1935 federal election, a turning point that fractured the two-party system and permanently changed Canada’s political landscape.
- Copyright year: 2023
Feminism’s Fight
Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970
Feminism’s Fight shows how fifty years of feminist struggle over public policy can inform today’s fight for gender justice and against continued discrimination.
- Copyright year: 2023
Condoland
The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto’s CityPlace
In an era of frantic vertical urbanization known as “condoism,” Condoland explores the planning and design of Toronto’s CityPlace, one of North America’s largest residential development projects – and reveals what can happen when the real estate industry comes to dominate city planning.
- Copyright year: 2023
Follow the Leader, Lose the Region
Charting a Canadian Strategy for the Asia-Pacific
Follow the Leader, Lose the Region conclusively demonstrates that an understanding of how Asia sees itself should inform Canadian foreign policy in the region.
- Copyright year: 2023
People, Politics, and Purpose
Biography and Canadian Political History
People, Politics, and Purpose investigates the roles and reputations of a wide array of political actors, offering insight into Canada’s place in the world and stimulating fresh thinking about political biography.
- Copyright year: 2022
Life against States of Emergency
Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat
Life against States of Emergency responds to the central question Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence asked in a high-profile ceremonial fast: What does it mean to be in a treaty relationship today?
- Copyright year: 2023
China’s Asymmetric Statecraft
Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy
China’s Asymmetric Statecraft uncovers the different narratives and paradigms that constitute Chinese foreign policy toward its weaker neighbours, alerting us to a dramatically changing international environment.
- Copyright year: 2023
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships
Nehiyawak Narratives
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships investigates Indigenous economic theories and relationships through the lenses of settler colonial exploitation and Indigenous resurgence.
- Copyright year: 2022
Constitutional Crossroads
Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change
Four decades after the adoption of the Constitution Act, 1982, Constitutional Crossroads assesses its legacy, focusing on the themes of rights, reconciliation, and constitutional change.
- Copyright year: 2022