Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada.While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-...

Robyn Maynard’s bestselling Policing Black Lives offers a comprehensive account of the state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and punishment of Black lives in Canada. In this revised and expanded edition, Maynard exposes Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance to document how half a century of police reforms have expanded the scope and scale of policing and undermined Black freedom struggles in the wake of global Black uprisings in 2020. She traces the afterlive...

Prix des Libraires du Québec 2019 | Essai La vérité a souvent un goût amer. Nous ne savons comment accepter nos histoires. Faut-il s’en tenir aux faits et dire la vérité ? Cet ouvrage monumental si richement documenté est précieux, il nous tire de l’oubli et du silence. Que savons-nous de l’esclavage au Canada ? Que savons-nous de la répression exercée sur les femmes et les hommes noirs ? Que savons-nous du racisme systémique ? Que savons-nous de la détresse des Autochtones, des sans-papie...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE CBC'S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.**When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, b...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE CBC'S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.**When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, b...

A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the “anti-trafficking industry”—and a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers themselves.In this impassioned corrective to decades of misguided, carceral approaches to migration and sex work, long-time organizers Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam deftly expose the harms of criminalization in the name of “anti-trafficking” and lift up migrant sex worke...

Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep.Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke of the pre-pandemic status quo and a stark exposé of the buried weaknesses in our soci...

The Dynasties Collection from Mills & BoonIncluding the titles:Dynasties: The AshtonsDynasties: The JarrodsDynasties: The DanforthsDynasties: The BaronesDynasties: The LassitersDynasties: The Montoros

The Tropical Temptation Collection from Mills and BoonIncluding the titles:Tropical Temptation: Exotic AffairsTropical Temptation: Exotic SeductionTropical Temptation: Exotic PassionTropical Temptation: Exotic PropositionsTropical Temptation: Exotic DreamsTropical Temptation: Exotic Scandal

One Night with the BillionaireBillionaire Leo Cavallo just doesn’t do Christmas. That is, until he meets his neighbour, the irresistible Phoebe Kemper, and a storm forces them to get a whole lot closer… Soon, Leo realises that the only present he wants this year is Phoebe – and not just for Christmas!One Night with the EnemyAfter one, unforgettable night together, publishing mogul Wynn Hunter is shocked to discover that the ravishin...

In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe present the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during the pandemic. The book uses prose, poetry, and photography to document lived experiences of homelessness, responses to the housing crisis, efforts to fight back for homes, and possible solutions to move Toronto forward. Contributors provide particular insight into policies affecting Indigenous peoples and how the l...

Disability Politics and Theory, a historical exploration of the concept of disability, covers the late nineteenth century to the present, introducing the main models of disability theory and politics: eugenics, medicalization, rehabilitation, charity, rights and social and disability justice. A.J. Withers examines when, how and why new categories of disability are created and describes how capitalism benefits from and enforces disabled people’s oppression. Critiquing the currently...