Congratulations to all panelists for so beautifully championing your books this year, and to winner Tegan Quin with Loghan Paylor’s The Cure for Drowning.

In advance of the Canada Reads debates, Shayla Stonechild was on CBC’s All in a Weekend with Sonali Karnick to discuss the experience of winning last year’s competition while championing A TWO-SPIRIT JOURNEY by Ma-Nee Chacaby. Thank you for helping this book find so many new readers, Shayla!

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In her review of IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE TRAVELLER, Jarita Holbrook says, “Cultural astronomers and those who engage with Indigenous astronomy will find this an endless pleasure as it explores the detailed ways that astronomy is entwined with culture.”

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“In this fine monograph, Rebecca Beausaert demonstrates that the community study in Canadian social history still has a lot to offer in revealing the richness of the local past and its connections to the sweeping changes that shaped industrializing and modernizing North America.”

James Kostuchuk writes for Prairie History, “My expectation for this collection of essays is that it would bring me up to speed on current scholarship examining our province’s political landscape, and it delivered as promised.”

Grab the definitive study of Manitoba politics for our time today!

Grab a copy 8 May at 7:00 p.m. at the McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park book launch!

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Imprinting Empire captures the tensions, political debates, and outright propaganda that helped the Canadian nation dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and claim the prairies as its own.

Just in! 📦 IMPRINTING EMPIRE by Shelisa Klassen has arrived from the printer!

To win this year’s list, and A Two-Spirit Journey, share this post and comment with the one book YOU think all of Canada should read. A winner will be selected at random on the first day of the competition—Monday, April 13, 2026. Good luck to all authors and panelists!

Canada Reads Giveaway! 📚 It’s been one year since Shayla Stonechild was named the Canada Reads winner, championing A Two-Spirit Journey! To celebrate the passing of the torch, our friends at CBC Books have sent us a package of this year’s contenders, signed by the authors!

PUTTING DOWN ROOTS by Cheryl Troupe @cl_troupe is shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association’s 2026 Best (English-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History prize!

Congratulations Cheryl, on this significant achievement!

Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba is not only the definitive guide to these fishes of Manitoba, it is also accessible and reliable for a range of users from general fishers to professional fish biologists...

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The definitive guide to the third most diverse fish population in Canada, this book will excite anyone interested in exploring the lakes, rivers, tributaries, and watersheds across the province.

THE FRESHWATER FISHES OF MANITOBA is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to the third most diverse fish population in Canada. Readers can learn about lampreys, goldeye, catfish, perch, bigmouth bass, slimy sculpin, and many more.

“Overall, Putting Down Roots is a richly textured, family-centered history that makes a substantial contribution to scholarship on Métis communities and Indigenous family life.”

Grab your copy of this beautiful history today!

New book presents legal argument for Indigenous language education rights - Windspeaker.com The new book Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education is more than the author’s vision to return to a time when Indigenous languages flourished in Canada. Lorena Sekwan Fontaine argues that customary laws, Canada’s Constitution, and international laws demand that Indigenous languages claim a prominent space in this country.

Read the full interview with Lorena Sekwan Fontaine with Windspeaker here:

Focusing on education as the path to Indigenous language revitalization, she examines the current health of Indigenous languages and urges governments to act.

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For National Indigenous Languages Day, we’re highlighting Lorena Sekwan Fontaine’s LIVING LANGUAGE RIGHTS.

This ground-breaking work demonstrates how Indigenous language rights are embedded in both First Nations’ law and Canadian constitutional law.

Mind's Eye Based on over two decades of extensive interviews, Mind’s Eye documents the stories told by eighteen Cree elders in Whapmagoostui. From testimonies about battles with the Inuit and early contact with ...

“These stories are incredible, and in my opinion, they should be required reading in all of the schools in my nation because this book holds so much cultural identity and knowledge about who we were and who we still are. I love this book so much…”

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MIND’S EYE: STORIES FROM WHAPMAGOOSTUI was recently recommended by Juno-nominated Cree musician Siibii on CBC Books's The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing!

Confronting the Resurgent Right: Excerpt Read the foreword by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair for our forthcoming title, Confronting the Resurgent Right.

The culmination of this research attempts to answer the question: How can we broadly engage Canadians to come together to fight for justice and human rights, and create community-based solutions that counter the regressive right?

Read the foreword by Niigaan Sinclair:

In CONFRONTING THE RESURGENT RIGHT, scholars and activists document historical and contemporary manifestations of far-right extremism in Canada and the impacts on specific communities, including 2SLGBTQIA+ people, Indigenous communities, and Muslim women.

Join Adele Perry in conversation with author Shelisa Klassen for the launch of IMPRINTING EMPIRE on May 8 at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park!

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Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities.

For the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we’re highlighting STRUCTURES OF INDIFFERENCE. This book examines the life and death of Brian Sinclair, who was left untreated and unattended in a major downtown hospital, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection.

The book launch for IMPRINTING EMPIRE will take place on Friday, May 8, at 7pm at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park! Shelisa Klassen will discuss the book, and the role of newspapers in transforming Manitoba into a settler colonial state.

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“Readers coming fresh to the topic can’t help but be struck by the sheer number of Western Canadian artists in the book and the formidable array of illustrations.” Read the full review of WESTERN VOICES IN CANADIAN ART in The British Columbia Review here: thebcreview.ca/2026/...

By using oral histories, archival sources, genealogies, photographs, and deep mapping practices, Cheryl Troupe brings to life the cultural strength of Métis road allowance communities. Congratulations to Cheryl for these amazing achievements!