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To thank you for your continued support, we're offering 20% off all books on our website from December 1 through December 31, 2024. To claim your 20% discount, enter BRRR24 at checkout. We offer free shipping on Canadian web orders over $40.

Holiday Shipping Deadlines (Canada)

Most of our orders are shipped via courier and won't be impacted by the Canada Post strike. However, we might experience difficulties shipping to P.O. boxes, apartments, and condos at this time. If you have questions or concerns about your order, please contact UTP Distribution at utpbooks@utpress.utoronto.ca or 1-800-565-9523.

Our books ship from Toronto. If you'd like your books to arrive before Christmas, we recommend placing your order before the following dates:

Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut: November 29

Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, British Columbia: December 4

Alberta, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia: December 9

Ontario, Quebec: December 11

Greater Toronto Area: December 13

Gift Ideas to Get You Started
My Story of Pain and Reclamation

A deeply personal history of colonialism’s corrosive effects on an Ojibway-Anishinabe woman who survives a traumatic childhood, becomes a teen mother, and eventually escapes unrelenting domestic violence to find hope and healing, dedicating herself to helping women and children like her former self.

Stories from Newcomers to Canada

In Geographies of the Heart, eighteen newcomers to Canada share their journeys, reveal the conditions that necessitated them leaving their homes, and challenge assumptions about newcomers’ lives in Canada.

The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm

What really happened at Heenan Blaikie? This is the ultimate account of what went on behind the scenes of the largest law firm dissolution in Canadian history.

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.

Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Drumming Our Way Home takes readers on an autobiographical journey to recover Indigenous identity, demonstrating how storytelling – aided by a hand drum – can open up a new world of pedagogy and culture-based learning.

Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism

Blending research with a reporter’s journey through the industry, Under the White Gaze takes a pointed look at how people of colour are routinely missing, marginalized, or misrepresented in Canadian journalism, and explores what can be done to make our media more inclusive.

The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North

Sex in Canada offers a unique, definitive, and surprising exploration of sex and sexuality among Canadians.

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?

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