Labour and labour related issues have been at the centre of media attention over the past few weeks. The 2016 Alberta Budget was announced. “The Alberta Jobs Plan,” as the…
The latest publication from Athabasca University Press, Learning in Virtual Worlds edited by Sue Gregory, Mark J.W. Lee, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan, is an important collection of articles concerning the…
The latest book from AU Press, How Canadians Communicate VI: Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy, discusses how food is represented, regulated, and consumed in Canada. Canadians make food choices every…
“Sports are about identity and belonging, about our place in the world and how we see ourselves,” says David Taras in the introductory chapter to How Canadians Communicate V: Sports,…
On February 22, 2016, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) released a white paper on the future of publishing in Canada. The report, titled “Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing,”…
AU Press’s most recent publication, Scaling Up, is a community-focused book that features case studies of the social economies of Alberta and British Columbia. The social economy is developed when citizens…
What is happening in Canadian media? From layoffs to strikes, from the end of a paper published since 1874 to more layoffs, it seems as though our news sources have…
At AU Press’ most recent editorial committee meeting, the discussion turned to Indigenous scholarship and a committee member noted that she had recently read a number of interesting articles that…
Fearful of losing her family’s history and her father’s memories about Jewish life during World War II in Iran, Farideh Goldin asked Baba, as she called her father, to write…
If your New Year’s resolution is to be more informed about our world, you should start the New Year by reviewing what happened in 2015. We have rounded up four…