A J Patrick Boyer Book imprint: 21 books
How Different It Was
Canadians at the Time of Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
An enthralling exploration of the lifestyles, ideas, habits, organizations, customs, fears, and aspirations of Canadians in the age of Confederation.
Too often we think of Victorian Canada as dull. We imagine our ancestors as sepia-tinged, dour, excruciatingly respectable figures sitting stiffly...
Off the Street
Legalizing Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
First book to map out a regulatory framework for recreational drugs.
Discusses recreational drugs in the larger context of regulation of consumption.
Provides up-to-date accounts, nationally and internationally, of the failure of the War on Drugs and why it will end.
Provides up-to-date account of marijuana...
Hardscrabble
The High Cost of Free Land
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
When the Free Grants and Homestead Act was first introduced in 1868, fierce debates erupted in Ontario's Legislature over whether land in the Muskoka region should be opened to settlement or reserved for the Aboriginal population. From the beginning, many people vented serious doubts about the free...
Campaign Confessions
Tales from the War Rooms of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
**A National Bestseller!
Canada’s Only Full-Time Political Campaign Manager — 50 Campaigns in 45 Years with 30 Victories**
John Laschinger opens the doors to the backrooms and war rooms of the political campaigns he has run, providing lessons for aspiring campaign managers, and exposing what really happens behind the scenes.
Paikin on Ontario's Premiers 2-Book Bundle
Bill Davis / Paikin and the Premiers
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
A unique perspective on Ontario's most powerful political leaders from one of Canada's most astute and respected journalists.
Includes:
Bill Davis: Nation Builder, and Not So Bland After All
A biography of perhaps Ontario’s most important premier, who, despite having been out of public...
Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King
So Similar, So Different
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
Born just two weeks apart in 1874, Winston Churchill and William Lyon Mackenzie King took different paths to achieve their objective of a parliamentary career, Churchill through military exploits and King via academic excellence. When he became prime minister, King realized that Canada had to progress...
Paikin and the Premiers
Personal Reflections on a Half-Century of Ontario Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Ontario's fortunes and fates increasingly rest in the hands of the province's premier. Critics say the role of premier concentrates too much power in one person, but at least that points to the one person Ontarians, and others beyond the province's borders, ought to know all about.
Few people...
Beyond Incarceration
Safety and True Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
A call to replace Canada’s incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and — most of all — unnecessary.
Imprisonment developed in the Western world as the punishment to suit all offences, from violent assault to victimless drug use....
Eugene Forsey, Canada's Maverick Sage
Canada's Maverick Sage
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Eugene Forsey combined vision with protest and erudition with wit.
A legacy for the common good: Eugene Forsey’s wit and wisdom.
Feisty and erudite, Eugene Alfred Forsey (1904-1991) was an activist scholar, labour researcher, constitutional expert, and senator who fought all his life...
Breaking the Ice
Canada, Sovereignty, and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
The Arctic seabed, with its vast quantities of undiscovered resources, is the twenty-first century’s frontier.
In Breaking the Ice: Canada, Sovereignty and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf, Arctic policy expert Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon examines...
by James Bartleman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Autumn, 1970: Hostage-taking separatists in Quebec abduct a foreign diplomat and a cabinet minister and threaten violence across the country. As fear sets in, the government turns to Luc Cadotte, a specialist on international terrorism and veteran of the clandestine struggles in Latin America.
From...
Reluctant Pioneer
How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of...
Sir John's Echo
The Voice for a Stronger Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
As Sir John A. Macdonald intended, the federal government must be recognized as the nation’s voice.
Power. It is the capacity to inspire while encouraging and enabling change, and it matters. When handled in a positive way, power is the key to the...
by James Bartleman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
In the early 1930s, Oscar Wolf, a 13-year-old Native from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve, sets fire to the business section of his village north of Toronto in a fit of misguided rage against white society, inadvertently killing his grandfather and a young maid. Tortured by guilt and fearful...
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