Canadian Politics
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Property Wrongs
The Seventy-Year Fight for Public Housing in Winnipeg
Business interests have fought hard against public housing by doing their utmost to limit city democracy.
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Advocating for Palestine in Canada
Histories, Movements, Action
This collection brings together activists, journalists and academics to explore the challenges of engaging in Palestinian advocacy in Canada.
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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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Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2nd ed.
This updated multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the strategic political possibilities and challenges facing the Canadian labour movement in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Divided
Populism, Polarization and Power in the New Saskatchewan
Divided is a collection of essays that offers multiple windows into the origins and impacts of the current state of populism and hyper-partisanship in Saskatchewan and beyond.
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Stampede
Misogyny, White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism
This book offers the first-ever intersectional feminist analysis of the gendered and racialized dynamics of the contemporary Calgary Stampede.
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Identifying as Arab in Canada
A Century of Immigration History
While “Arabs” now attract considerable attention – from media, the state, and sociological studies – their history in Canada remains little known. Identifying as Arab in Canada begins to rectify this invisibilization by exploring the migration from Machrek (the Middle East) to Canada from the late 19th century through the 1970s.
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Thirty Years of Failure
Understanding Canadian Climate Policy
How did Canada go from climate leader to climate villain?
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When Poverty Mattered
Then and Now
Founded in Toronto in 1968, the Praxis Corporation was a progressive research institute mandated to spark political discussion about a range of social issues, such as poverty, homelessness, anti-war activism, community activism and worker organization. Deemed a radical threat by the Canadian state, Praxis was put under RCMP surveillance. In 1970, Praxis’s office was burgled and burned to the ground.
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Rethinking Who We Are
Critical Reflections on Human Diversity in Canada
Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada.