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Interview with Wayne K. Spear and Georges Erasmus, authors of Hòt'a! Enough!: Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights banner. Background image from cover, black and white photo of housing block with various buildings and a concrete and grass courtyard with sparse trees. Solid red section to centre right of banner with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Image of book cover to centre left, with the aforementioned image of the urban neighbourhood and the author, Georges Erasmus, standing with back to camera in foreground and looking out toward buildings, man with thick, grey hair and wearing a rugged, beige, brushed leather jacket in a traditional style.

Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights is Chronicled in Hòt'a! Enough!

Over the past fifty years, there has perhaps been no more significant voice in the fight for Indigenous rights than that of Georges Erasmus, a Dene leader who has worked tirelessly to challenge governments ...

December 18, 2024
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Acclaimed Artist David Gagnon Walker Guides the Audience Through Fear and Anxiety in an Immersive, Interactive Stage Play

It has been said that, if David Gagnon Walker's name appears on a theatre playbill, the audience should prepare themselves for the unexpected. The playwright has created some of the most interesting ...

December 17, 2024

In Dangerous Memory, Charlie Angus Unpacks the 1980s and the Many Ways that the Decade Still Haunts Us

Coming of age in the 1980s is something that if often seen romanticized or parodied in popular culture, with some of the more ridiculous and lively touchstones of the era featured in film, literature, ...

December 12, 2024

Perfect Gifts for Writers

Tis the season to ask the most pressing of all questions: What is the perfect gift for the writer in your life? Books? Pens? Journals? A six-figure book deal: (Note: we all want the latter!)Authors Farzana ...

December 12, 2024

Kevin Stebner's New Poetry Collection Breaks Down the Beauty of Typographical Shapes to Reveal their Inherent Voices

The newly founded Assembly Press has already started making waves on the CanLit scene with unique and exciting titles that will resound with savvy readers, and they've published a real gem in polymath Kevin ...

December 11, 2024

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