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Historian’s revealing biography of John Norquay a decade in the making

Fresh from his award-winning history of the Hudson Bay Company, 2021’s The Company, historical non-fiction author Stephen Bown has in his latest book tackled a much more complicated period in Canadian...

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In 1812 a group of nine Inuit men from Hudson Bay’s west coast came to Churchill to trade their winter furs, with one of them leaving his son behind to work for the Hudson’s Bay Company for a year. Th...

In the spring of 1978, 22-year-old Mark Abley set out for India, overland. By then the “hippie trail” from Istanbul in Turkey to Kathmandu in Nepal had been popular since the late 1950s: it was cheap, possibly enlightening, but never easy. And the following year, with the Iranian revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, that trail would come to an end.

Tomson Highway’s latest book is a series of five lectures from the CBC Massey Lectures, intended to spread the ideas of groundbreaking Canadians. They will be broadcast on CBC’s Ideas in November.

At long last, doctors are writing about and revealing the dilemmas and stresses of a highly competitive profession that sooner or later affect us all.

If you have ever travelled Highway 45, south of Riding Mountain National Park, you will remember seeing a sign for Waywayseecappo First Nation. It’s a name no one could ever forget.

Méira Cook’s new novel about seven months in the life of Charlie Minkoff and his grandfather, Oscar, is not a straightforward read. It challenges conventional ideas about adolescence, paren...

This impressive first novel by Toronto lawyer Reema Patel is set in Mumbai, where Patel once worked in the youth non-profit sector and in human rights advocacy. It features a former street child, Rakhi, who now works as an office peon for an NGO called Justice for All.