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Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge
Neoliberalism – idealizing free-market capitalism – sets the boundaries for how we are governed in Canada, no matter who is in power. Author ALEX HIMELFARB explores why these ideas persist when the need for dramatic action on issues like inequality and global warming is obvious to all.
$27.95, paperback
Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890
Colonialism and Capitalism: A New History of Canada offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are tied to the creation of a richly endowed, wealthy but very unequal first world country.
$39.95, hardcover
The Trudeau Record: Promise and Performance
An authoritative review of Justin Trudeau's tenure, with 25 independent experts weighing in on his promises and performance.
$27.95, paperback
Canada's State Police
The 150 year legacy of the RCMP, Canada’s national state police.
$27.95, paperback
Gigs, Hustles, & Temps
“Precarious work” contributes to rampant inequality, increased insecurity, and the crisis of public and mental health. “Gigs, Hustles, and Temps” explains why.
$27.95, paperback
From Layton to Singh
An incisive analysis of the federal NDP since 2000, examining the ongoing, unresolved tension between the party’s idealistic grassroots base and centrist bureaucracy at its core.
$24.95, paperback
Vancouver Ltd.
Donald Gutstein reveals the tangled web of corporate ownership and influence, family relationships and social contacts which held the Vancouver business establishment together in the 1970s
$29.95, paperback
Corporate Rules: The Real World of Business Regulation in Canada
Corporations and their lobbyists have captured control of most Canadian regulatory bodies. How this happened is documented by field experts, insiders, academics and whistleblowers.
$27.95, paperback
Share the Wealth!
This book shows how Canada’s steadily increasing wealth — which has mostly gone to the top one per cent over the last 20 years — can be successfully taxed to pay for the social programs Canadians need and want, from pharmacare and child care to better care for the elderly to much lower costs for post-secondary students.
$24.95, paperback
Basic Income for Canadians
This book, updated in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, presents the evidence for the health and wellbeing benefits of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it.
$24.95, paperback
John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Year Canada Was Cool
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.
$24.95, paperback
Canada is Not Back
An insider's account of how Justin Trudeau makes foreign policy, and why his government has gone nowhere internationally.$24.95, paperback
The Tangled Garden
This 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.$24.95, paperback
Beyond Shelters
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.$24.95, paperback
Oil and World Politics
Petroleum is at the root of most conflicts in the world today. It infiltrates politics and is closely associated with power. This book offers new understanding of what has been happening in world's "hot spot" countries.$27.95, paperback
Honest Politics Now
This book critically analyzes changes introduced and implemented over the last two decades intended to deal with ethical issues in politics using high-profile political scandals as case studies. With contributions from experts from across the country, this book explores the standards of accountability to which Canadian politicians are being held.
$24.95, paperback
Health and Wealth
Researchers are now discovering that it's not the richest countries that have the best health: it's the most egalitarian.
$35.00, paperback
Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality
Agnes Macphail, Canada's first woman MP, is a heroine for our times: an accomplished politician, committed feminist and a complex, well-rounded human being.$16.95, paperback
Business and Social Reform in the Thirties
This book challenges the commonly accepted view that governments enacted social reforms in the 1930s in response to demands for more equitable redistribution of wealth in a time of trouble, robbing from the rich to give to the poor.
$16.95, paperback