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Winner of the 2018 Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionShortlisted for the 2018 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingShortlisted for the 2019 JW Dafoe Book PrizeA timely chronicle of how Canada's oil pipelines have become hotbeds for debate about our energy future, Indigenous rights, environmental activism, and east-west political tensions.Pipe Dreams is the dramatic story of the rise and fall ...

Shortlisted, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOnce, a single francophone settlement shared both sides of the Saint John River, until a political trade-off between countries split it down the middle. From that inauspicious start, the Maine-New Brunswick border, the first boundary to be drawn between the two nations, has served as a microcosm for Canada-U.S. relations. For ...

The inside story of how these ambitious, often ruthless entrepreneurs came to dominate the economic and political affairs of Atlantic Canada, and how they learned to love the property that perplexed them most: their media monopoly They are Canada's third wealthiest family and one of the largest private landowners in the U.S.A. ... And yet they operate almost entirely in secret. They are the Irvings. And they have always placed a premium on dis...

Hammering out a coalition almost defines Conservatism. Nowhere is this truer than in New Brunswick, where linguistic, social, and political dualities have foretold the fortunes of the national party. Bernard Lord sought and found the middle ground. Now many federal Conservatives see him as the solution to their dilemma.

Were the Gallery's treasures gifts or loans? Was Lord Beaverbrook careless or devious? Jacques Poitras sifts through the personal correspondence, takes stock of the witnesses and testimony at the 2006 arbitration hearings, and interviews the combatants of a bitter legal battle that rocked the art world on both sides of the Atlantic. Deftly connecting the pieces of this historic jigsaw puzzle, he tells a fascinating tale peopled with an arresti...