ACS has two flagship publications that are integral to its knowledge transfer mandate. The Canadian Issues magazine showcases academic work in the form of short essays designed to expand Canadians’ knowledge about their country. A second publication, Canadian Diversity, introduced in 2000, focuses on the challenges confronting Canada and other countries arising from migration and rapid demographic change.

A third publication - The Metropolis eBook - highlights a selection of the cutting-edge cross-sectoral presentations in the immigration field intended for the annual Metropolis Canada Conferences.

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Who Are We?

Date: 3 March, 2023

Key Topics: Canadian Issues

Reconciliation and Reckoning: Contesting Canada’s Past, Framing Its Future

This special issue comprises essays and interviews featuring a range of voices, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, reflecting on how the past — often contested — continues to shape our present and future. Reconciliation is a topic at the heart of contemporary debates about Canada’s history, during a time when scholarly and popular narratives of this country’s past are being challenged and rewritten. Canada’s landscape of historical commemoration is similarly in the throes of controversy, with statues being toppled and landmarks being renamed. All the while, how we educate young Canadians about the country’s past remains a hotly contested issue.

Date: 15 April, 2022

Key Topics: Canadian Issues, Indigenous Peoples

Multiculturalism @50 and the Promise of a Just Society

Entitled Multiculturalism @ 50 and the Promise of a Just Society, this special edition of Canadian Issues, explores the roots, characteristics and structural fault lines of Canadian multiculturalism and outlines the reframing required if the policy hopes to live up to its initial promise of delivering a just society. In his introduction, guest editor and eminent political philosopher Will Kymlicka reflects on the insights of contributing authors some of whom trace multiculturalism’s failings back to its very foundations, but who also offer glimpses” of why and how multiculturalism might aspire to rebirth and offer a “better future”.

Date: 10 August, 2021

Key Topics: Canadian Issues

Manitoba and Canada’s North-West: Founders and Builders

Contributors: ROBERT WARDHAUGH, FRANK J. TOUGH, NATHALIE KERMOAL, GERALD FRIESEN, JAMES MOCHORUK, DAVID CHARTRAND, NICOLE ST-ONGE, PHILIPPE MAILHOT, BARRY FERGUSON, KARINE DUHAMEL, JEAN TEILLET, SARAH CARTER.

Date: 31 March, 2021

Key Topics: Canadian Issues

Hope in a Time of Pandemic – Selected presentations from the Stories of Hope : A Celebration of Canada Conference

Contributors : Miriam Taylor, Mohammed Ahmed, Michelle Douglas, Ashley Manuel, The Hon. Steven Guilbeault, Can Nguyen, Jean Teillet, Ilona Dougherty, The Right Hon. Michaëlle Jean, The Hon. Jean Augustine, Rosemary Sadlier, Deborah Morrison, Charles Taylor, Major Samson Young, Sen. Wanda Thomas Elaine Bernard, Abhay & Sukhmeet Singh Sachal.

Date: 9 March, 2021

Key Topics: Canadian Issues, Indigenous Peoples, Other, Social History

The Personal Past: History, Identity and the Genealogical Impulse

Contributors: Randy Boswell; Tanya Evans; Natalie Ward; John D. Reid; Leighann C. Neilson; Jane Badets; Jack Jedwab; Jean Teillet; Robert Vineberg; Sara Macnaull; Nora Spinks; Nicole Watier; Margaret Ann Wilkinson; Tracy Arial

Date: 26 June, 2020

Key Topics: Canadian Issues

Linguistic Duality, De Jure and De Facto – Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Official Languages Act

Contributors: Miriam Taylor, Diane Gérin-Lajoie, Jack Jedwab, Shana Poplack, Robert J. Talbot, Geoffrey Chambers, Richard Slevinsky, Nathalie Dion, Jean-Philippe Warren, Richard Y. Bourhis, Matthew Hayday, Suzanne Robillard, Jean Johnson, Jean-Pierre Corbeil, Fred Genesee, Basile Roussel

Date: 19 November, 2019

Key Topics: Canadian Issues, Education, Heritage, Official Languages, Quebec

Made to Measure: Statistics Canada @100

Contributors: Randy Boswell, Jan Kestle, Dylan Saunders, Raymond Théberge, Musah Khalid, Michael Haan, Martha Patterson, Katherine Wall, Robert Talbot, Doug Norris, Sen. Donna Dasko, Myriam Hazel, Gustave Goldmann, Jack Jedwab

The Futuristic Past: Technology, Memory and History in the Age of AI

For a journalist and writer of popular history, these are pretty exciting times. Background information that used to take many hours or even days to com- pile can now be gathered online in mere minutes. Instead of roaming library shelves, interviewing experts or semi-randomly scrolling through micro- film of 19th-century newspapers, I can instantly, directly and efficiently tap remarkably rich veins of research through Google Books, newspapers. com, biographi.ca (that’s the digital version of the wonderful Dictionary of Canadian Biography), thecanadianencyclopedia.ca and, yes, the much- mocked but incredibly useful Wikipedia. Then there’s Library and Archives Canada’s amazing web portal to so much of the country’s digitized documentary heritage, including countless historical photographs and other vintage images. Toss in a few other treasure troves — the Virtual Museum of Canada, canadiana.ca, ancestry.ca, archive.org — and it’s no exaggeration to say that, today, the nation’s and even the world’s history is essentially at my fingertips.
Contributors: Randy Boswell, Dr. Guy Berthiaume, Dr. Jaigris Hodson, Moysés Marcos, Benjamin C. Storm, Dr. Stéphane Lévesque, Anthony Wilson-Smith, Jack Jedwab, Ian Milligan, Deborah Morrison, Dr. Nancy Salay, Robert Cassidy

Date: 13 November, 2018

Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Social History, Technology & Media

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