Award-winning journalist Sarah Cox and guests invite you to an inspiring (and perhaps enraging) discussion and launch of her book "Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro." A modern-day David and Goliath story, "Breaching the Peace" is an uplifting and astonishing story of the farmers and First Nations who are fighting the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that has propelled it forward. ...more

Award-winning journalist Sarah Cox and guests invite you to an inspiring (and perhaps enraging) discussion and launch of her book "Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro." A modern-day David and Goliath story, "Breaching the Peace" is an uplifting and astonishing story of the farmers and First Nations who are fighting the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that has propelled it forward. ...more

Award-winning journalist Sarah Cox and guests invite you to an inspiring (and perhaps enraging) discussion and launch of her book "Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro." A modern-day David and Goliath story, "Breaching the Peace" is an uplifting and astonishing story of the farmers and First Nations who are fighting the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that has propelled it forward. ...more

Robert Bothwell in conversation with Roy MacSkimming about his new book, co-authored with J.L. Granatstein, "Trudeau's World: Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968-84," a book that offers critical reflections on Canadian foreign, trade, and defence policies from interviews with most of the key policy makers, diplomats, and military officers in the Trudeau government and of that era. ...more

Join author Meghan Fitzpatrick for a discussion about her extraordinary, and much needed, book, “Invisible Scars: Mental Trauma and the Korean War.” ...more

The Lower River Lea Valley became the centre of Greater London's industrial economy during the final three decades of the nineteenth century. In this talk, Jim Clifford will discuss the unique history of this industrial suburb and the importance of the efforts to fix the river and the society in shaping the rise of social democracy in Britain. ...more

Join co-authors Miranda Brady and John Kelly for a discussion and launch about their new book “We Interrupt This Program.” This powerful and inspiring book brings to light a new facet of Indigenous sovereignty – the use of media tactics to infuse Canadian culture with Indigenous perspectives and to raise political and cultural consciousness in Indigenous communities. ...more

Meet John Grant, author of "Lived Fictions: Unity and Exclusion in Canadian Politics," and celebrate the publication of this important book. John is bringing big thinking back to Canadian politics. In his book, he demonstrates how theories of political unity always exclude and shows why our comfortable assumptions about the promises of Canadian politics mask historical failures. ...more

Join editor Peter Neary to celebrate the publication of “Alan Caswell Collier, Relief Stiff: An Artist’s Letters from Depression-era British Columbia.” Alan Collier’s letters are incisive, fresh, and opinionated. They peel back time, opening a window on the feelings and thoughts of an eminent Canadian artist and on a generation who came of age during an era of economic upheaval and class conflict. RSVP to Carol Vine at carovine@bell.net. ...more

Join us for a thought-provoking reading by author Sharon Batt from her book "Health Advocacy Inc.: How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement." It is an in-depth look at patients' organizations and funding from the pharmaceutical industry that reviewers have called "vital and disturbing," "riveting," "a compassionate account," and "an alarming historical record." Sharon Batt is a Halifax-based journalist and scholar who writes about ethical issues in health policy for both popular and academic audiences. ...more

Presented by the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association, Dr. Melanee Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of gender-based political inequality in Canada and other post-industrial democracies, with a particular focus on political attitudes and behaviour, and policy feedback. She recenlty published an edited collection titled "Mothers and Others: Understanding the Impact of Family Life on Politics," and is working on an exploration of the effects of gender, stereotype threat, and psychological orientations to politics, as well as a project examining the role of electoral districts play in voter turnout, party competition, and representational diversity. ...more

Dr. Sharon Batt will read from her new book "Health Advocacy, Inc.: How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement." A small reception will follow. All are welcome. This event is wheelchair accessible. ...more

Join author Shirley Tillotson to celebrate her book, "Give and Take," an enthralling, witty, and masterful account of Canadian tax history. This book brings to light Canada’s surprisingly unruly tax history, showing the tax clashes and compromises that made Canadian democracy. ...more

Panel discussion featuring: Kim Brooks, Schulich School of Law, Graham Steele, Rowe School of Business, Shirley Tillotson, Department of History. ...more

The Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University is hosting a book launch for "Health Advocacy Inc." Join the author for a reading, discussion, book signing, and light refreshments. In "Health Advocacy Inc.", TRRU member Sharon Batt examines how pharmaceutical industry funding has come to shape the activities of breast cancer patents' advocacy groups. ...more

“What stubborn-hearted virtues they disguised!” Canadian Conscripts at War – 1918: This talk will provide an overview of the principal events leading up to this historic and controversial legislation, followed by a brief examination of the vital contribution made by conscripts during the Hundred Days. The subject has long been obscured by myth and by inaccurate or incomplete history. Many of these myths will be directly addressed in this presentation. ...more

Marilyn Schuster, professor emerita in the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, will present a reading of her new book, A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout. ...more

UBC Press, the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC) and the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, are hosting a launch to celebrate the publication of The Industrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places, edited by Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon, and Andrew Perchard. ...more

Celebrate the publication of Kristine Alexander's new book, "Guiding Modern Girls." Alexander looks at the fascinating history of the Girl Guide movement that sought to maintain social stability in England, Canada, and India during the 1920s and 1930s. She reveals the ways in which girls and young women understood, reworked, and sometimes challenged the expectations placed on them by the world’s largest voluntary organization for girls. ...more

Meet Ryan Meili, an award-winning family physician, MLA for Saskatoon Meewasin, founder of Upstream: Institute for a Healthy Society, candidate for the Saskatchewan NDP Leadership, and author of A Healthy Society. This book represents Meili's vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Brought to life through a mix of expertise and story, this book appeals beyond political lines to address our common values, arguing that health is a measure of our success as a society. ...more