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Set in a small northern town, under the mythical shadow of the Sleeping Giant, Wake the Stone Man follows the complicated friendship of two girls coming of age in the 1960s.

This book is for Canadians who care about our democracy and the future of our planet.

Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized.

During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among "undesirable" populations in Canada.

In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government provided a licence to search over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction.

To be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death.

In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Québec's governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition fees.

In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches.

In this memoir Jim Bennet portrays the Halifax of the 1930s and '40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs of young boys, freight trains and pine tar soap.

In the mid-1970s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts.

A feral girl roams the dense forests of nineteenth-century France.

Saturday, November 3, 1956 The United Nations about 10 p.m. Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly.

For more than 50 years, William Francis Ganong explored the wilderness of New Brunswick to document its natural history.

When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen.

"Facing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving.