Toronto: City of Commerce 1870-1960Images from yesterday and today of a city of factories, businesses, and storefrontsBy Katherine TaylorArchival images and contemporary photos illuminate the history of Toronto's businesses and industries. |
While the Beatles were breaking up, John Lennon and Yoko Ono headed to Canada to stage a bed-in for peace, play a peace concert, and meet prime minister Trudeau. |
Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate DesignsIndependent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto's failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront schemeEdited by Mariana Valverde, Edited by Alexandra FlynnExperts from across the country investigate the "smart city" trend in urban planning as it is showing up in different Canadian municipalities. |
The Avro ArrowThe story of the great Canadian Cold War interceptor jet in pictures and documentsBy Lawrence MillerThe story of the great Canadian Cold War combat jet — in pictures and documents |
The story of Canada's workers and their unions |
Canada is Not BackHow Justin Trudeau is in over his head on foreign policyBy Jocelyn Coulon, Translated by George TombsAn insider's account of how Justin Trudeau makes foreign policy, and why his government has gone nowhere internationally. |
Winnipeg 1919The Strikers' Own History of the General StrikeBy The Winnipeg Defence Committee, Introduction by Christo Aivalis, Edited by Norman PennerThe most important primary document from the Winnipeg General Strike now back in print with a new introduction on the occasion of the strike's 100th anniversary |
Canadian Culture in a Globalized WorldThe impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural lifeBy Garry NeilCanada has developed an extensive system of cultural policies. These policies are now increasingly in conflict with a web of international free trade agreements. |
The Tangled GardenA Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital AgeBy Richard Stursberg, With Stephen ArmstrongThis book explains the breakdown of Canadian cultural industries and outlines that for them to be saved we must adapt cultural policy to the digital age. |
Homelessness can be ended in Canada, and in this book leading shelter operators share their experience and their proposals about how this can be done, city by city. |