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CBC Morning North interviewed Karen Stote about the sterilization of Aboriginal women.
Posted on September 1st, 2015
“Karen Stote says dozens of aboriginal women were coerced into being sterilized in the 70s. She says it was an act of genocide”
The Globe and Mail covers Karen Stote’s “An Act of Genocide”
Posted on September 1st, 2015
“Coerced sterilization of Canadian indigenous women in 1970s widespread: researcher”
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Epilogue to What Lies Across the Water, by Stephen Kimber
Posted on July 7th, 2015
Stephen Kimber recounts the historic freeing of the Cuban Five in this epilogue, available only here.
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Arsham Parsi awarded LogoTV Trailblazers Award
Posted on July 2nd, 2015
Watch his powerful acceptance speech here.
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Chasing Freedom on CBC Books List of 100 Canadian YA Novels
Posted on July 2nd, 2015
Gloria Ann Wesley’s novel named one of 100 CBC Books’ YA novels that make you proud to be Canadian.
Foreword from the Cuban Spanish edition of Cuba and Its Neighbours, by Ricardo Alarcon
Posted on May 12th, 2015
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada served as Cuba’s permanent representative to the United Nations for nearly 30 years and later served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992-1993. He wrote the Foreward, titled “The Long Road to Utopia”, for the Cuban Spanish edition of Arnold August’s “Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion (Cuba y sus vecinos: Democracia en movimiento)” - we are pleased to present the English translation of Alarcón’s Foreward here.
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Double Pregnant and Grist Nominated for Atlantic Book Awards
Posted on May 7th, 2015
Double Pregnant by Natalie Meisner and Grist by Linda Little are both up for Atlantic Book Awards!
Shawn Katz - Radio Interviews
Posted on April 22nd, 2015
Author of Generation Rising did a string of great radio interviews about his latest book, which looks at the 2012 Quebec Student Spring.
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FREE eBook: Racism in Winnipeg
Posted on April 2nd, 2015
Download a free eBook or PDF compilation of Fernwood titles about racism towards Aboriginal people in Winnipeg specifically, and Canada, generally.
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Understanding Further Cuba–US Relations
Posted on February 10th, 2015
There are two crucial aspects, among others, that are arising in the aftermath of the December 17, 2014, simultaneous announcements by Raúl Castro and Barack Obama…