Though he and his governments have consistently ranked high in expert opinion polls, Louis St-Laurent's contributions to governance, politics and policy have not been assessed in a long time. This seminar brings together contributors to a new book, The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent: Politics and Policies for a Modern Canada. ...more

A lively discussion with Kelly Blidook and Alex Marland about ways that members of Canadian legislatures can offer effective representation within the constraints of party discipline. Moderated by Tamara A. Small. ...more

This Thursday at 4:00 PM (AST) / 12:00 PM (PST) , "How the System Turns Canadian Politicians into Party Messengers," a digital conversation on party politics in Canada with Alex Marland and Graham Steele. Hosted by The Mulroney Institute of Government at StFX University. ...more

Join us as we celebrate the 2020 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize winning book, The Good Fight: Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy, written by Dr. Brendan Kelly. Presented by the J.W. Dafoe Foundation. ...more

On November 19th, we invite you to celebrate the launch of The Juggling Mother with author Amanda Watson. Moderated by May Friedman, this reading and discussion explores the idealized version of motherhood that perpetuates established inequities of race, gender, class, and ability.⁣⁣ ...more

A Public Humanities Hub Conversation with UBC Authors Hannah Turner (School of Information) and David Gaertner (Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies) ...more

Please join us for an event celebrating University Press Week featuring a quartet of Canada’s scholarly presses and moderated by Michelle Lobkowicz. ...more

Join author Jerry Fontaine and moderator Darrell Boissoneau along with family members Steve Pego, Patricia Shawnoo, and Doreen Pine Lesage for a ceremony and profound discussion about the importance of an Ojibway-Anishinabe vision for the future. ...more

Learning with Syeyutsus Speaker Series is a series of lunch-time talks created by the Nanaimo-Ladysmith Public School District in collaboration with UBC Press. It features renowned authors at the forefront of Indigenous issues pertaining to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action #57. ...more

Tune in as former MLA and cabinet minister George Abbott discusses his new book, Big Promises, Small Government: Doing Less with Less in the BC Liberal Era, with Vaughn Palmer, the Vancouver Sun's political columnist since 1984. ...more

The Down Syndrome Association - National Capital Region hosts a Zoom webinar series: Breaking Free - Institutions Then and Now. ...more

Celebrate the publication of No Place For the State: The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill with editors Christoper Dummitt and Christabelle Sethna, along with many of the contributors, for a lively, contrasting, and complex discussion on the 1969 Omnibus Bill and how it helped shape sexual and moral politics in Canada. ...more

Join host, Mark Sutcliffe, for a conversation on ending poverty with Hugh Segal, whose latest book, Bootstraps Need Boots, lays out the moral framework and the economic rationale for a universal guaranteed annual income for all. ...more

Hamilton Community Foundation hosts Hugh Segal for a discussion on ending poverty in Canada. Hugh is a former senator who served as Chief of Staff for two prime ministers. He is a champion for universal basic income which he discusses in his recently published book Bootstraps Need Boots: One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada. ...more

Celebrate Bob Marley's birthday and Black History Month with JASON WILSON & FRIENDS – Book Launch and Performance, "King Alpha's Song in a Strange Land: The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae" ...more

The UBC Canadian Studies Program and UBC Press present a book launch for Tina Loo's book entitled "Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada." ...more

In this account of Canada’s resettlement program from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the ongoing Syrian crisis, Shauna Labman explores the role that law plays in resettlement and the impact of resettlement on asylum policies. Her pathbreaking work shows that resettlement can either complement or complicate asylum claims at a time when refugee crises and fear of outsiders are causing countries to close their borders to asylum-seekers. ...more

For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self-described Red Tory warrior who disdains “bootstrap” approaches to poverty, he has worked tirelessly to bring about policies that support the most economically vulnerable in society. Central to his life’s work has been the championing of a basic annual income for all Canadians. In "Bootstraps Need Boots," Segal shares how his life and experiences brought him to this most unlikely of places. ...more

The mystique of money is about its power both to hide and to reveal. Using examples from her recent book, Give and Take (on Canada’s 20th century tax history) and from the Dalhousie University inquiry about its connections to race and slavery in the 1810s, Tillotson will explore both sides of the mystique of money and especially its relationship to systems of racial power. ...more

At the Bridge lifts from obscurity the story of James Teit, an outstanding Canadian ethnographer and Indian rights activist. ...more