Violence Canada

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 listeners with the first comprehensive account of nearly 400 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-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions.

Canadians refer to Canada as “The North” or “Hockey Nation” and are neighbors to the United States having the same problems with organize crime, street gangs, firearms trafficking, drug smuggling and gun violence as the U.S. The Italian Mafia, the violent biker gangs often knowns as one percenters, street gangs, drug organizations, firearms traffickers and other dangerous criminal groups thrive in the Maple Leaf nation. Many perceive the Canadian government soft on organize crime with a weak judicial system and a poorly managed socialist government. Major Canadian cities like ...

A candid and riveting memoir from the founder of Harlem Children's Zone, taking readers through his Canada in which violence stalked every street corner. Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before...

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-papiers, des personnes réfugiées ? Enfin fort peu...

WINNER of the Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction WINNER of the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book A TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Concubine’s Children and The Girl in the Picture, a gripping story of a...

A book that takes you inside the mind of a gangbanger.

From award-winning Brazilian author Eliana Alves Cruz comes a raw, propulsive novel-in-translation about a mother and daughter who work as live-in maids for the rich, and the tragedy they unwittingly bear witness to. Eunice works for a rich family in a building called The Golden Plate, in an...

Parks Pat Could Be in Over Her Head… Detective Margie “Parks” Pat has earned her reputation solving murders at Fish Creek and Glenbow Ranch—but Ralph Klein Park might be her toughest case yet. When a body turns up in the water, Parks is forced to confront her greatest fear: the very thing she must master to solve the crime. She’ll need to get over that if she is going to be able to investigate this case properly. Preferably before the rest of the department figures out her weakness. There is a killer out there to be caught. Somehow she’ll have to get past her block to find him. ...