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For Blood and Soil: Far-Right Extremism in Canada

By Amarnath Amarasingam and Stephanie Carvin

As Canadians warily observe the turbocharged right-wing extremism undergirding Donald Trump’s America, two new titles serve as disturbing reminders of our own “Maple Leaf” violence, a shameful reality deeply rooted in Canadian history and increasingly ... Read More »

June 30, 2026 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews, Social Sciences

Confronting the Resurgent Right

By Miriam Edelson; ed.

June 30, 2026 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews, Social Sciences

Last Call for Canada: Sovereign Nation or Vassal State

By Peter McFarlane

It’s no understatement to observe that Canadians are enduring an anxious era, with threats of military invasion emanating from the U.S. ambassador, American officials openly meeting with Alberta separatist organizers, and U.S. President Donald Trump ... Read More »

June 24, 2026 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Social Sciences

★ The Lost Season: A Memoir of Infertility, Motherhood, and the Worry and Work Demanded of Women

By Stacey May Fowles

These days, the term “liminality” is used to describe just about any place or thing that gives a sense of ambiguity or unease, but when folklorist Arnold van Gennep first coined it back in 1909, ... Read More »

June 3, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Tales of the Mountains and the Sea

By Dania Idriss

Dania Idriss’s Tales of the Mountains and the Sea is a cross-genre debut collection in which characters’ lives, beliefs, and actions are interwoven with Middle Eastern folklore and superstition. In five stories set in Lebanon ... Read More »

May 20, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Body Riddle

By Sam K MacKinnon

Lex is having a difficult winter. Since identifying as gender-fluid, they no longer feel sexual with their bisexual partner Ada. They are enduring a lot to get approval for gender-affirming chest surgery, but can’t decide ... Read More »

May 13, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Dad Era

By Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel’s sixth book, Dad Era, reads like a long autobiographical poem addressed to his daughter, Phoenix, that seams together generations of family through written and visual narratives. Told in the style of brief musings ... Read More »

April 29, 2026 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews

Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability

By Therese Estacion

One of the long-held concerns of the international disability community is that the non-disabled world prefers to keep disabled writers confined to a prescribed box wherein we write endlessly and non-confrontationally about loss but never ... Read More »

April 22, 2026 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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