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Glad to see my work on this important historical episode of the Cold War sciences in Canada spotlighted here. Thanks to Isabel Campbell and everyone @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social for supporting the original research project, and to @thewalrus.ca for the platform to share this chapter excerpt.

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Canada Created a Cold War Isolation Laboratory. It Ended in Scandal | The Walrus Researchers promised breakthroughs in psychology—until rumours of brainwashing took over

Read an excerpt from Matthew S. Wiseman's chapter in Cold War Workers: Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear State (Edited by Isabel Campbell)

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Today on the blog, Nina Bogdan gives us an introduction to the history of Russian émigrés in the United States:

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It's World Friendship Day!

Friends are at the centre of novels by everyone from George Eliot to Elena Ferrante. The essays in Friendship and the Novel illustrate that friendship, in its many forms, is a central problem and abiding mystery in fiction.

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Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned Colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread pollution, particularly affecting Yellowknives Dene communities.

Our column on Giant Mine was picked up on MSN.com:

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The poems in SCAR/CITY walk streets and take snapshots of the impact financialization of our homes has on our sense of community and belonging.

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"...these poems ask how to make peace with a self one can neither entirely disclose nor entirely escape," writes Madelaine Longman in the poetry round-up. mtlreviewofbooks.ca/genres/poetry/
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In Defense of the Traditional Review Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

"The practice of criticism should be as wide-ranging as possible and constantly growing, but it shouldn’t lose its center, which is the written review." We agree.

Spotted in the wild, in Victoria, PEI - & not even a bookstore!

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In our latest guest blog post, Martha Langford takes us behind the scenes of the printing of her new book, A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1: Anticipation to Participation, 1839–1918.

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Dangers of Youth- Combined Academic French society at the turn of the twentieth century was deeply preoccupied with the conduct and management of its young people, especially those who had brok...

If you're interested in buying a copy of my book Dangers of Youth, you can now get it for 30% off at this link by applying the code FSS25 (discount price £27.30 GBP≅$56 AUD / $37 USD /€31.50 EUR) 🗃️
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Congratulations to Ola G. El-Taliawi!

Learn more about The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South: bit.ly/4o4Z50l

Out latest ad in Canada's History!

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Muskoka politics Plus, Poilievre backs the Convoy organizers ahead of sentencing.

The Price of Gold giveaway in the Hill Times: buff.ly/lL9krH3

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Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned Colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread pollution, particularly affecting Yellowknives Dene communities.

Arn Keeling and John Sandos on The Price of Gold in The Conversation: buff.ly/lJR1ZzZ

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Opinion: Shaving department budgets won’t be enough to rein in federal spending Mark Carney’s announcement of reduction targets is unlikely to have a lasting impact

Donald Savoie in the Globe: buff.ly/NDxu3Kf

Alasdair Roberts and The Adaptable Country in the CBC: buff.ly/EpZrnIU

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In just one day, our authors and their books were featured by the CBC, Globe and Mail, Hill Times, and The Conversation. How's that for impact?

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A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1 captures this phenomenon by looking at hundreds of early photographs and by listening to the chords they struck in the collective imagination.

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From early reports of the invention to its wide application during World War I, photography created anticipation and participation in the modern world.

Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned Colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread pollution, particularly affecting Yellowknives Dene communities.

Want a preview of our book, The Price of Gold, with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ? Check out our article in @theconversation.com today:

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Copy reads: "This week's book giveaway: The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife." This week's book giveaway is The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling, and published by McGill-Queen's University Press. "The Price of Gold traces the troubling history of one of Canada's most contaminated site but also the inspiring story of Indigenous, labour, and environmental activists who resisted the ongoing poisoning of their communities," reads the back-jacket blurb. This week's book question: When and why did Giant Mine close in Yellowknife? Please send your responses to trivia@hilltimes.com by NOON ET today and the lucky winner's name will be drawn. Good luck.

Hey look! Our forthcoming book, The Price of Gold, is today's book giveaway in @hilltimes.com:

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ANALYSIS | Are first ministers' meetings cool again? | CBC News When Mark Carney sits down with the premiers on Tuesday, it will be the third time in four months that he and the premiers have met face-to-face. That is, by recent standards, an unusual amount of tim...

I spoke with the CBC's @aaronwherry.bsky.social about the need to revive national leaders' summits in Canada, based on my book from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

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small brown yorkie on a chair next to a book entitled "The Jesuit Relations a Biography" by Micah True

Small dogs that do not care about my new book (and one that does): a thread

Mia is pretending she hasn't noticed it.

Unequal Access by Natalie Welfens explores the politics of categorization practices in European resettlement and humanitarian admission programs and the complex boundaries of inclusion and exclusion they produce.

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Two adorable yorkies posing next to a book entitled The Jesuit Relations: A Biography.

Aubrey and Phoebe can’t wait to get their paws on my new book!
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Events We regularly host in-person and virtual book launches and special events with notable authors. Check in with us regularly for our ever changing schedule.

Brome Lake Books will be hosting an evening event to meet the authors of Quebec's Eastern Townships and the World, today at 6 p.m.

Territories of Inequality, edited by Olivier Jacques and Alain Noël, analyses the effect of decentralization and federalism on policy outcomes and on public preferences, as well as the connections between fiscal federalism, political forces, and inequality.

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