Linda R. Melvern
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Decolonizing Equity
This book acknowledges the equity work BIPOC staff do in all institutions as both a burden and a survival mechanism, then explores how this necessary work be done in a less harmful way.
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Heroin
An Illustrated History
The only book-length Canadian history of the harm done from criminalizing heroin users and addicts, the most horrendous being overdose epidemics caused by poisoned drugs.
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Tiny Engines of Abundance
A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression
Food production by small peasant farmers is both more productive and sustainable than food produced by corporate agriculture.
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Reconciliation and Indigenous Justice
A Search for Ways Forward
This book provides an account of the ongoing ties between the enduring traumas caused by the residential schools and Indigenous over-incarceration
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Critical Social Work Praxis
A cutting-edge critical social work textbook that unites social work theory with practice.
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Sister Seen, Sister Heard
A story for every immigrant struggling between cultures, every youth rebelling against parents, and every woman facing assault alone.
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The Socialist Register 2022
New Polarizations, Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism
The word “polarization” is on the lips of every commentator today, from mainstream journalists to the left, but the significance of this widely recognized phenomenon needs far more scrutiny than it has had.
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Spin Doctors
How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic
This book meticulously documents the root causes of the struggles amplified by the pandemic and media and challenges media and politicians who justify the status quo.
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Ineligible
Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance
A comprehensive examination of welfare state surveillance and regulation of single mothers in Ontario.
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Fight to Win
Inside Poor People’s Organizing
The first full length book on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, one of Canada’s most significant poor people’s activist organizations.