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Heenan Blaikie

The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm

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

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Drumming Our Way Home

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.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Thin Edge of Innovation

Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy

The Thin Edge of Innovation charts the origins, potential, and pitfalls of Metro Vancouver’s entrepreneur-led innovation economy, including the tremendous growth of high-tech, apparel, and consumer-oriented life-style businesses in the city.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Transforming the Prairies

Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada

Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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
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Nature-First Cities

Restoring Relationships with Ecosystems and with Each Other

Nature-First Cities recognizes nature as the lead architect in the most essential of restoration projects – our cities.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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
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Not Just a Man’s War

Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45

Not Just a Man’s War uncovers the extraordinary stories of ordinary Chinese women during the horrific fourteen-year War of Resistance against Japan, from 1931 to 1945.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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
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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
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Signs of the Time

Nlaka'pamux Resistance through Rock Art

Drawing on a unique blend of Indigenous and Western sources, Signs of the Time explores Nlaka’pamux rock art making to reveal the historical and cultural meaning beneath its beguiling imagery.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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
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