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Book Review: The collective uses black-and-white sequential art to illuminate the stories of workers from across our nation who organized to create better working environments.

The Toronto Book of the Dead by Adam Bunch is an engaging and fascinating look into some of the darker moments of Toronto’s past.

Book Review: An absquatulator, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a person who departs from a scene hurriedly and furtively, often to avoid arrest. Such a man was Alfred Thomas Wood, a nineteenth-century charlatan who bluffed his way across three continents, usually (but not always) one step ahead of both the law and his hoodwinked marks.

For decades, The Beaver depicted Indigenous societies as primitive peoples in need of ‘civilization.’ In actuality, the magazine’s images reveal vibrant cultures, resilient communities, and crucial new perspectives on the North.

When this underwear becomes outerwear it bridges class and gender.

Canada’s reputation for tolerance owes much to one Canadian whose human rights legacy lives on today.  

No one knew how to treat soldiers suffering from shell shock in the First World War, so doctors tried everything including shaming, blaming, and electric shocks. 

As Union and Confederate armies battled in the United States, Canadians got involved on both sides of the conflict.

The white leaders of the 1913–18 expedition into the Canadian Arctic got the glory but it was the Inuit expedition members who made it all possible.

Gut-skin raincoats are one of many examples of how indigenous peoples used all parts of the animals they hunted.