The Reading Room
October 2025
Traces the evolution of free speech from strict regulation to a contested democratic ideal, revealing its roots in power, profit, and inequality rather than in the pursuit of liberty or truth.
Recounts the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The 3,000 miles of track was an engineering triumph that enabled a new country, but came at a terrible price to Indigenous peoples and thousands of laborers.
This anthology weaves personal experience and cultural wisdom into letters reflecting Indigenous histories, present struggles, and future visions. It offers a powerful framework for understanding reconciliation, and for also understanding what it means to be Indigenous today.
How social media users can combat misinformation through observed correction, where witnessing public corrections improves understanding. Simple messages, platform support, and accessible evidence can empower users to correct misinformation effectively.
Vividly traces the 7,700 km Trans-Canada Highway, blending history, pioneer tales, and a journalist’s 2023 journey. Dramatic encounters with disasters and triumphs reveal Canada’s spirit in a compelling, transformative narrative.
This fascinating account intertwines tuberculosis’s long history with a young Sierra Leone patient’s story, revealing healthcare inequities. It explores the preventable disease’s deadly impact and calls for better treatment access.
A daring investigation into how the far-right recruits women online, exploring their roles as propagandists and mother-warriors. Through expert interviews and community infiltration, it reveals misogyny, violence, and strategies to counter radicalization.
Explores Canada’s evolving immigration policy, analyzing economic, family, and refugee streams. It examines selection criteria, integration, and multiculturalism, highlighting legal, political, and social paradoxes while advocating for transparent, inclusive policy reform.
From its invention to World War I, this compelling history traces photography’s rise in Canada. Through analysis of images and counternarratives, the author explores photography’s impact on settler society, Indigenous Peoples and the collective consciousness.
This comprehensive analysis examines the intersection of environmental issues and politics in Canada, covering historical developments, governance challenges, and diverse worldviews from extractivism to deep ecology, offering insights for understanding policy.
Examines how users co-create and adapt emerging technologies during their early adoption phase, subverting dominant power structures and developing everyday practices that challenge tech companies' control over our digital experiences.
Provides an accessible introduction to the work, impact, and relevance of UK Parliament — its people, and practices — through academic insights and case studies covering Brexit, COVID-19, diversity, and recent changes in legislation.
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