One woman’s story can illuminate generations. In the latest Champlain Society Witness to Yesterday podcast episode, Nicole O’Byrne speaks with Hayward Blake and Raymond Blake about their book Outport Woman: Life on the Ocean's Edge. Listen at: https://bit.ly/WTYs1926
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Join Paul Kellogg, author of Austerity and Resistance: The Ontario Days of Action, 1995–1998 at the Solidarity is Strength event. Learn more: bit.ly/4yUnv1t 📅 Sat, Sept 26, 12-1pm EST 📍College Street United Church #OntarioLabour #OntarioEducation
We've heard you've been waiting for the paperback edition... The Cheese Cure follows a celebrated journalist into the historic halls of #BoroughMarket, a story of craft, community, and reinvention for the curious mind. Michael Finnerty NYT Cooking Now available in paperback: bit.ly/4myPk8J
UTP and Paradigm Publishing Services are launching a first-of-its-kind dual-access model for scholarly eBooks, providing libraries and researchers with greater flexibility, discoverability, and continuity of access across two trusted platforms. Read more: bit.ly/4rpL53k De Gruyter Brill
1 in 8 women in Canada is expected to develop breast cancer. This book turns complex medical information into clear, practical questions about treatment, genetic testing, and life after diagnosis. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4fg7xGD #CancerTreatment
In 2010, the UN declared access to clean drinking water a human right. Yet billions still face scarcity while water is wasted, polluted, and undervalued. Water on Wall Street confronts this paradox. Learn more: bit.ly/4d2VKLp #WaterSecurity United Nations Water
A new article in #PhysiotherapyCanada (78.3) investigates the relationship between older adults’ performance when their ability to move about is assessed in a clinical environment compared to how they move about in their everyday lives. Read more: bit.ly/PTC78-3F Canadian Physiotherapy Association
New season, new reads. Our #BacktoSchool Sale is happening now! 20% off our entire website + free shipping through Sept 30 (textbooks excluded). Shop now and start your fall reading list with savings: bit.ly/4hlTlx1 #CanadianBooks
Volume 2, Issue 1 of The Journal of Clinical Insights in Neonatology is now available. Explore six new challenging neonatal cases and expand your clinical knowledge: bit.ly/JCIN21 #Neonatology #MedEd #OpenAccess SickKids
For #FASDAwarenessMonth, the Journal of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is sharing a new research-informed fact about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder each week. This week’s fact: Prenatal alcohol exposure and alcohol-use disorders are public-health issues.
Advancing research and improving the health and well-being of military members, Veterans, and their families, #JMVFH 12.4 explores #PTSD #assistancedogs, military sexual trauma, injury prevention, #gambling harm, social integration & more. https://bit.ly/JMVFH124 Queen's University Research
Don’t miss the launch of Dr. Robert Maunder and Dr. Jonathan Hunter’s new book Coping, which offers practical, compassionate tools for navigating stress! 📍 September 29, 6:00pm at UofT Bookstore Reserve your free tickets: https://bit.ly/4yo9Jnf Temerty Medicine #TorontoEvent
#CallForPapers! The Journal of Canadian Studies upcoming Special Issue is guest edited by Laura Bisaillon of University of Toronto Scarborough and seeking scholarly & creative submissions (EN and FR) on Canada's medical exclusion laws & their human impact. Read more: bit.ly/jcscfp CSN-RÉC
How to Build a River documents the creation of Biidaasige Park and Ookwemin Minising, new public and ecological spaces made possible by the Port Lands flood protection and Don River naturalization project: https://bit.ly/3UQaZB9 Waterfront Toronto City of Toronto #TorontoPortLands #UrbanEcology
Author Paul Howe has spent 25 years researching Canadian democracy. His verdict? Our values, habits, and institutions are under pressure. Who will step up to defend them? The Perils of Populism demands we ask that question. Read it today: bit.ly/4fvhL7g #Democracy #Populism #CanadianPolitics
Explorer, fur trader, surveyor, landowner, and public commentator. Discover a lesser-known side of David Thompson. The Champlain Society Witness to Yesterday podcast https://bit.ly/WTYs426 explores The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 3 https://bit.ly/CSV25
In Linguistics and the Human Sciences 18.1, find a report from University of Sydney (USYD) on "Say It Aloud, I'm Safe and Proud," a child-centered body safety #education project aimed at promoting body autonomy and personal #safety among children in a rural Chinese community: https://bit.ly/LHS181e
The new episode of the Champlain Society Witness to Yesterday, Outport Woman: Life on the Ocean’s Edge provides a window into the experiences of women in Newfoundland’s outport communities through the life of Minnie Beatrice Blake. Listen at: https://bit.ly/WTYs1926
“With measured authority, Your Aorta guides readers through risk, growth, and emergency recognition, turning complex science into understanding that can shape decisions at critical moments.” – Aung Y. Oo, The Barts Heart Centre Discover the book: bit.ly/4bd3pG6 Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust
“The public … are the ultimate sponsors of city-building initiatives.” In this newsletter, How to Build a River authors Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker make the case for long-term, independent documentation of public infrastructure: https://bit.ly/4heYuqv #PublicArt #Urbanism
“Jokes are jokes. But culture informs laws. And jokes are culture.” Talia Argondezzi, author of Bedtime Stories for Academics, considers why #satire matters when #academia is facing contingent labour and a rapidly changing culture. Read the UTP newsletter: https://bit.ly/4AhRXDU
"Popular advice to 'decentre work' is often paired with the transactional vision that work should simply be a means to an end...this never really sat well with me." - @scottschieman.bsky.social, author of I Want M.O.R.E., in a new piece for @theglobeandmail.com. Read more: bit.ly/4xD22ZR
In the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 68.1, scholars study how police partnerships with social workers and non-police actors in #IPV responses may reinforce police institutional power rather than redistribute it. Social Science @ WesternU Learn more: bit.ly/cjccj681d
In the new issue of CPJ (159 S3), explore how point-of-care testing fits within pharmacist scope of practice across Canada and why regulations and guidelines vary by province. University Health Network Read now: https://bit.ly/CPJ159S3b
Discover the new issue of #Physiotherapy Canada (78.3) to explore the consistency of dry needling regulations across Canada; movement in older adults in clinical settings and everyday life; ankle muscle power and balance in healthy older adults; and more: bit.ly/PTC78-3F @physiocan.bsky.social
This special issue of the Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices brings together emerging scholarship that challenges narrow, monolithic accounts of #bilingual experience. Guest Editors: Anne L. Beatty-Martínez and Sarah Surrain. Read here: https://bit.ly/JMTP_71
During #FASDAwareness Month, we're addressing common misconceptions about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder with facts from the Journal of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, to help reduce stigma and misinformation.
We are pleased to announce that Eric Arthur by Harold Kalman and My Life in the Law by Robert J. Sharpe have been nominated for the Heritage Toronto Award in the Book category! Learn more about this nomination: https://bit.ly/4y0BxOJ University of Victoria #HTawards #Toronto #BookAward
"This is a much-needed satiric salve for faculty, students, and anyone else enduring these challenging times in education." Chris Monks, McSweeney's Explore Bedtime Stories for Academics by Talia Argondezzi: https://bit.ly/4gNSsyu Maclean’s Magazine Communications Team
On September 23, join artists Ryan Walker and Vid Ingelevics for an evening of stories, photographs, artifacts, and conversation about their new book, How to Build a River. 📍5:00–7:30 PM at 39 Commissioners St Register and learn more here: https://bit.ly/4ivswbO Waterfront Toronto