Social Science
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Hromada: The Changing Ukrainian Community in Saskatchewan
by Alan B. Anderson
The story of any immigrant community, at its core, depicts the changing meaning of home and identity - the home and identity you leave behind; those which you build on new shores, in new places, in new ways. How any change to that home and...
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From York Factory to Medicine Hat, Don't Just Read Your History, Go There
A Scottish Métis Family in Canada by Sharon Hogg
In late August of 2013 my Métis husband, Nelson and I had signed up for the Manitoba Historical Fur Trade Tour leaving out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. We had been on a quest to learn more about where his ancestors came from and walk in the places...
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Why Poor People Remain Poor
Key Elements for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development by Dr. Ajaga Nji
The empirical evidence why people remain poor and the poverty reduction strategies discussed in this book squarely address popular themes that cut across national and international development agendas, as well as the nebulous and chronic question...
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The Audacity of Inclusion
Fighting for the Equality of Persons Labelled Intellectually Disabled by Dulcie McCallum
One beautiful, surprisingly warm spring morning on the isolated islands of Haida Gwaii, an insight smacked Dulcie McCallum in the face with the force of an unexpected tsunami: at the heart of it all, the law was the culprit. Rather than promoting...
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Reflecting Shekinah
Feminine Images of the Divine and Women's Sense of Self by Barbara R Wieler
In Reflecting Shekinah: Feminine Images of the Divine and Women’s Sense of Self, Barbara Wieler reflects on the nature and significance of the relationship between feminine images of the Divine and the sense of self for women from the Mennonite...
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Cultural Factors Define Implementation Strategies
A Practical Guide for an Uncertain Business Future by Stanley Remple
Strong business leadership built on a value-based foundation has the power to drive profit while improving the lives of business leaders, employees, and even those in the community. But a business leadership model must also reflect cultural...
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Ripples from the Rupununi
Dr. Aidun's Healing Journey by Brian H. Cameron
Somewhere over the rainforest in Guyana there’s a land called the Rupununi, a creek-crossed savannah inhabited for millennia by Indigenous people of great capacity. This is where Dr. Jamshid Aidun, a Persian Canadian surgeon and a humble man of...
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Project Opikihiwawin and the Sixties Scoop
How White Parents Helped Their Adopted Children Connect With Their Indigenous Heritage by Cheryl Simmonds and Jamie McKay
For decades, Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their families and placed in foster care or adopted into non-Indigenous homes—a practice most well-known as the Sixties Scoop but one that began years before and continues long after....
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Masters of Their Own Bodies
The Great Canadian Birth Control Trial by Peter Giuliani
Sex and the long arm of the Catholic Church. Eccentric millionaires and Canada's Eugenics Society. Poverty and intolerance trapping the working class. It’s 1936 during the Great Depression and the nation watches as a spectacular court case...
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Tracing Ma’di Roots and Connections
by Hicks Ambira
This is an educational book about the Ma'di, from Africa. The book is of interest to any person of Ma’di descent or anyone interested in African history. The Ma'di were traced from where they originated; where they lived and traveled; how the...
