Mad people’s history holds up a mirror to the exalted Canadian story of universal health care, revealing a movement led by people finding and providing care for themselves and each other.

Industrial Montreal was a hotbed of cheap, easily exploited women’s labour. “You’ll never organize girls,” labour leaders were warned. But Rose Pesotta was determined to try “a woman’s approach” to unionizing.

A researcher accessed hundreds of documents revealing the Canadian government’s internal position on historic treaties. Negotiations in bad faith: confirmed.

Two books about residential schools are reviewed by 10-year-old Tanson Pitawanakwat Acoose.