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Reconciling Truths

Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada

Reconciling Truths is a forthright examination of commissions of inquiry that demonstrates the need for astute leadership and an engaging process if they are to lead to meaningful change.

Awards

2022, Shortlisted - Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Beyond Rights

The Nisg̱a’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships

Beyond Rights examines the legal, political, and cultural implications of the groundbreaking process of negotiating the Nisga’a treaty.

Awards

2023, Shortlisted - George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

  • Copyright year: 2021
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A Long Way to Paradise

A New History of British Columbia Politics

A Long Way to Paradise is a lively account of the personalities and ideas that shaped the first hundred years of BC politics and created one of Canada’s most fractious and dynamic political scenes.

Awards

2022, Winner - Clio Prize (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Laws and the Land

The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada

The Laws and the Land, an original and impassioned account of the history of the relationship between Canada and Kahnawà:ke, reveals the clash of settler and Indigenous legal traditions and the imposition of settler colonial law on Indigenous peoples and land.

Awards

2022, Winner - Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association

2022, Winner - Best Book Prize, Canadian Studies Network

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Demanding Equality

One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

In a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.

Awards

2022, Winner - The Canadian Committee on Womens and Gender History English Language Book Prize

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Constitutional Pariah

Reference re Senate Reform and the Future of Parliament

Constitutional Pariah is the first comprehensive account of the Senate in the aftermath of the landmark Supreme Court decision that resulted in one of the most significant reforms to Parliament in Canadian history.

Awards

2022, Commended - Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association

  • Copyright year: 2021
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