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Home Truths

Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis

UBC Press, On Point Press

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
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Report from a Last Survivor

By University of New Mexico Press
University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Shifting Gears

Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

UBC Press

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
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Local Governance in Transition

Toward Sustainable Canadian Communities

UBC Press

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
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Triumph and Solidarity

BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity

UBC Press

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
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Building a Special Relationship

Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61

UBC Press

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
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Political Activist Ethnography

Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Land and the Liberal Project

Canada’s Violent Expansion

UBC Press

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
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Broken City

Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis

UBC Press

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
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