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Pentecostal Preacher Woman

The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard

Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician, musician. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores the complex life of Bernice Gerard, one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia.

Awards

2025, Shortlisted - 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Under the White Gaze

Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism

Blending research with a reporter’s journey through the industry, Under the White Gaze takes a pointed look at how people of colour are routinely missing, marginalized, or misrepresented in Canadian journalism, and explores what can be done to make our media more inclusive.

Awards

2025, Shortlisted - 2025 Jim Deva Prize, BC and Yukon Book Prizes

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Signs of the Time

Nłeʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art

Drawing on a unique blend of Indigenous and Western sources, Signs of the Time explores Nłeʔkepmx rock art making to reveal the historical and cultural meaning beneath its beguiling imagery.

Awards

2025, Shortlisted - 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity

What is Canada? This new look at “Canada” shows how the country’s prime ministers have consciously worked to shape national identity through their speeches and rhetoric.

Awards

2025, Shortlisted - Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Writers' Trust of Canada

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Land and the Liberal Project

Canada’s Violent Expansion

Land and the Liberal Project explores the “improving” ideas that informed the expansion of Canada from coast to coast, exposing the justifications for state violence and appropriation of Indigenous territory, thus challenging our assumptions about Canadian sovereignty.

Awards

2024, Winner -

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Canada and Colonialism

An Unfinished History

Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in our institutions and culture.

Awards

2025, Shortlisted - 2025 George Ryga Award, BC BookWorld

  • Copyright year: 2024
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