Publications
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Interview for Building Toronto’s Skyline podcast
This morning I was interviewed by Nick Ainis for his podcast Building Toronto’s Skyline, about my latest book Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s-70s. Check it out. Part 2 coming out next week.
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Book Launch Reception Dates
Wednesday, October 7, 6:00pm-8:00pm@ Museum of Toronto Thursday, October 15, 6:30-pm-8:30pm@ Casa Do Alentejo Community Centre Wednesday, October 21, 6:30pm-8:30pm@ A Different Booklist Tuesday, October 27, 7:30pm-9:00pm@ Columbus Centre Join us for book readings, signings, conversations, roundtables with community members, and Q&A sessions with author Gilberto Fernandes and friends.Entrance is free. All are welcome.
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My debut at Toronto Mike’d podcast
I had a great chat at Toronto Mike’d podcast, talking about my new book. Here is the full episode.
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Book launch event at Museum of Toronto, October 7
The Museum of Toronto, located on 401 Richmond St. West, is hosting a reception celebrating the release of my new book Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks on October 7, starting at 6:30pm. This is a free event. Here is the RSVP: https://museumoftoronto.com/event/book-reception-militants-mobsters-and-mavericks/ All are welcome!
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Announcing my new book! Militants, Mobsters, and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Toronto in the 1960s-70s.
I am thrilled to announce that my new book Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s, published by Lorimer, is finally out and available in every major bookstore. This is a gripping look at the underbelly of Toronto’s explosive postwar growth in the 1960s and 1970s, at a time…
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New article “Gendering ‘Intelligent’ Machines” in Technology and Culture
My fourth and final article to come out of my research project Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada was published in the October issue of Technology and Culture. Find it here: “Gendering ‘Intelligent’ Machines:How Operating Engineers Constructed their Masculinity,” Technology and Culture 66: 4 (2025): 1111-41 Keywords: Advertising; children and youth; literature; unions; war;…
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New article “Part of the Solution? Indigenous Apprentices and the Unionized Building Trades” in Labour / Le Travail
My third article to come out of my research project Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada was published in the Spring issue of Labour / Le Travail. Find it here: “Part of the Solution? Indigenous Apprentices and the Unionized Building Trades: The Way of the International Union of Operating…
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We Are What We Eat: A Review of “The Human Cost of Food” Digital Exhibition
I was asked to write a review of the digital exhibition The Human Cost of Food, curated by Ed Dunsworth and a team of undergraduate and graduate students at McGill University. This is a great example of public/active history about Canada’s temporary migrant worker program, its built-in cruelty, and the lives of those most affected…
