CBC Canada Reads News Archive

A Two-Spirit Journey shortlisted for 2025 CBC Canada Reads Competition
January 31, 2025 —
A University of Manitoba Press book has been selected for this year’s Canada Reads Competition. A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer, will be championed in the competition by Shayla Stonechild, the award-winning TV host of APTN's Red Earth Uncovered and the founder of the Matriarch Movement, "a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices through story, meditation, movement, and medicine."

UM on the Canada Reads 2025 longlist
January 22, 2025 —
Two books with strong ties to the University of Manitoba have been selected for this year’s CBC's Canada Reads competition: A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer published by University of Manitoba Press and When the Pine Needles Fall by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with UM Assistant Professor in History and Indigenous Studies Sean Carleton.