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My Heroes Have Always Been Indians: A Century of Great Indigenous Albertans
Par Cora J. Voyageur. 2018
In a series of inspirational profiles, Cora Voyageur celebrates 100 remarkable Indigenous Albertans whose achievements have enriched their communities, the…
province, and the world. As a child, Cora rarely saw Indigenous individuals represented in her history textbooks or in pop culture. Willie Nelson sang “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,” but Cora wondered, where were the heroes who looked like her? She chose the title of her book in response, to help reflect her reality. In fact, you don’t have to look very hard to find Indigenous Albertans excelling in every field, from the arts to business and everything in between. Cora wrote this book to ensure these heroes receive their proper due. Some of the individuals in this collection need no introduction, while others are less well known. From past and present and from all walks of life, these 100 Indigenous heroes share talent, passion, and legacies that made a lasting impact. Read about: Douglas Cardinal, the architect whose iconic, flowing designs grace cities across Alberta, across Canada, and in Washington, DC, Nellie Carlson, a dedicated activist whose work advanced the cause of Indigenous women and the education of Indigenous children, Alex Janvier, whose pioneering work has firmly established him as one of Canada’s greatest artists, Moostoos, “The Buffalo,” the spokesperson for the Cree in Treaty 8 talks who fought tirelessly to defend his People’s rights, And many more.Ce livre raconte les parcours de Québécois ordinaires ayant une valeur nette de plus d'un million de dollars ou qui,…
pour les plus jeunes, s'en rapprochent après voir mis en place des principes rendant l'accumulation de la richesse inévitable. Ces gens sont propriétaires de boutiques, ingénieurs, spécialistes en marketing, comptables ou propriétaires d'immeubles d'habitation. Ils n'ont pas remporté le gros lot, n'ont pas hérité d'une fortune ni vendu leur compagnie à Google. Certains touchent un salaire de 30 000 $ par année et d'autres un peu plus de 100 000 $, mais aucun n'a un salaire de PDG. Presque tous sont mal à l'aise avec l'étiquette de millionnaire. Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyezTalk Money to Me: Save Well, Spend Some, and Feel Good About Your Money
Par Kelley Keehn. 2019
Learn how to save and spend wisely, feel good about money, and start living a more balanced life. No matter…
your age, salary, social or relationship status, money is an important part of your life. Yet, somehow, talking about your money situation is hard. Why is it that you know more about what goes on in your friend’s bedroom than with their bank account? Do you know if your parents have a will or or if they’ll leave a legacy? How many of your colleagues are still paying off student debt but are jet-setting around the globe on multiple credit cards? Since no one is talking about it, you can’t be expected to learn how to manage your money on your own. With years of experience as a personal finance advisor and educator, Kelley Keehn will answer your most burning questions about money and will talk you through how to avoid mistakes along the way. You can gain control of your debt, learn to save for your future, have a life, and feel good about money all at the same time. And—spoiler alert—you don’t need a budget to do any of this! You’ll learn: -How to build good credit (and get rid of bad credit—especially credit card debt) -What all these dreaded acronyms mean and how they can work for you—TFSA, RRSP, RESP, CFP, CPP -How and when to invest for your future -How to talk about money with your partner—and everyone else in your life -How to save for a mortgage and then work towards being mortgage-free -How to have fun, splurge once in a while, and still save money With her unique blend of empathy and no-nonsense candor, Kelley takes you through the basics of personal finance with relatable anecdotes that expose the most common money pitfalls—and how to avoid them—so you can make financial decisions that are right for you.The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
Par David Treuer. 2019
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES…
BESTSELLER Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal. "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR "An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait...?reuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation's past.." - New York Times Book Review, front page A sweeping historyand counter-narrativeof Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present. The received idea of Native American historyas promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Kneehas been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappearand not despite but rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existencethe story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.Voyage dans le temps économique: témoignage de première main (Économie et Société)
Par John Kenneth Galbraith. 1995
"...De la Première Guerre mondiale et de la Révolution russe aux implications de la chute du communisme, de la superbe…
folie des années vingt en Amérique et de la Grande Dépression à l'ère Reagan et au-delà...". Ce livre constitue une image globale et accessible de l'histoire économique et politique du XXe siècle. [SDMThe Man Who Lived with a Giant: Stories from Johnny Neyelle, Dene Elder
Par Alana Fletcher, Morris Neyelle. 2019
Our parents always taught us well. They told us to look on the good side of life and to accept…
what has to happen. The Man Who Lived with a Giant is a collection of traditional and personal stories told by Johnny Neyelle, a Dene Elder from Déline, Northwest Territories. Johnny used storytelling to teach Dene youth and others to understand and celebrate Dene traditions and knowledge. Johnny’s voice makes his stories accessible to readers young and old, and his wisdom reinforces the right way to live: in harmony with people and places. Storytelling forms the core of Dene knowledge-keeping, making this a vital book for Dene people of today and tomorrow, researchers working with Indigenous cultures and oral histories, and all those dedicated to preserving Elders’ stories.Savoir dépenser sans culpabiliser
Par Stéphane Desjardins. 2020
Le coût de la vie augmente sans cesse, les incitations à consommer se multiplient et le marketing devient de plus…
en plus efficace. Dans ce contexte, il est normal de se demander si, pour reprendre la célèbre formule de Pierre-Yves McSween, on en a vraiment besoin . Mais dépenser doit-il nécessairement rimer avec culpabilité? Stéphane Desjardins montre comment, en suivant quelques principes fondamentaux, il est possible de tirer de nos revenus chèrement gagnés un plaisir bien mérité. Être riche, qu'est-ce que ça veut dire? Peut-on contrôler ses dépenses sans souffrir? Comment éviter l'endettement à long terme? Quel est le chemin le plus sûr vers l'indépendance financière? En adoptant les solutions claires et les stratégies faciles à mettre en pratique que propose Stéphane Desjardins, les lecteurs soucieux d'éviter le surendettement et les autres pièges financiers découvriront qu'il est possible de consommer intelligePeace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada
Par Harold R. Johnson. 2019
An urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by national…
bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson."The night of the decision in the Gerald Stanley trial for the murder of Colten Boushie, I received a text message from a retired provincial court judge. He was feeling ashamed for his time in a system that was so badly tilted. I too feel this way about my time as both defence counsel and as a Crown prosecutor; that I didn't have the courage to stand up in the court room and shout 'Enough is enough.' This book is my act of taking responsibility for what I did, for my actions and inactions." --Harold R. JohnsonIn early 2018, the failures of Canada's justice system were sharply and painfully revealed in the verdicts issued in the deaths of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine. The outrage and confusion that followed those verdicts inspired former Crown prosecutor and bestselling author Harold R. Johnson to make the case against Canada for its failure to fulfill its duty under Treaty to effectively deliver justice to Indigenous people, worsening the situation and ensuring long-term damage to Indigenous communities. In this direct, concise, and essential volume, Harold R. Johnson examines the justice system's failures to deliver "peace and good order" to Indigenous people. He explores the part that he understands himself to have played in that mismanagement, drawing on insights he has gained from the experience; insights into the roots and immediate effects of how the justice system has failed Indigenous people, in all the communities in which they live; and insights into the struggle for peace and good order for Indigenous people now.A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Par Alicia Elliott. 2019
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF…
2019 BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL • CBC • CHATELAINE • QUILL & QUIRE • THE HILL TIMES • POP MATTERSA bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott.In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing and representation, and in the process makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political—from overcoming a years-long battle with head lice to the way Native writers are treated within the Canadian literary industry; her unplanned teenage pregnancy to the history of dark matter and how it relates to racism in the court system; her childhood diet of Kraft Dinner to how systemic oppression is directly linked to health problems in Native communities. With deep consideration and searing prose, Elliott provides a candid look at our past, an illuminating portrait of our present and a powerful tool for a better future.In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily…
life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – CAMH) from 1870-1940. Psychiatric patients endured abuse and could lead monotonous lives inside the asylum's walls, yet these same women and men worked hard at unpaid institutional jobs for years and decades on end, created their own entertainment, even in some cases made their own clothes, while forming meaningful relationships with other patients and some staff. Using first person accounts by and about patients – including letters written by inmates which were confiscated by hospital staff – Reaume weaves together a tapestry of stories about the daily lives of people confined behind brick walls that patients themselves built.Combien?
Par Douglas Kennedy. 2012
" Quand il entame la rédaction de Combien ?, Douglas Kennedy a trente-cinq ans, pas un sou en poche et…
serait bien incapable de discuter actions ou investissements. Mais s'il n'est pas un as de la finance, Kennedy est le plus fin des observateurs. Car après tout, écrire sur l'argent, n'est-ce pas écrire sur la condition humaine ? Et notre explorateur des âmes d'entamer un périple dans les grands bastions de l'argent : New York, Singapour, Londres. Mais aussi les nouvelles places émergentes : la Bourse de Casablanca, sorte d'annexe du souk ; Sydney et ses salles de marché à la Star Trek ; et la toute jeune Bourse de Budapest qui passe brutalement du communisme à l'économie de marché. Autant de rencontres, cocasses ou désabusées, pour une comédie humaine passionnante autour du rôle central qu'occupe l'argent dans nos vies. Car aujourd'hui plus que jamais, en avoir ou pas, là est la question... " -- 4e de couvThe world of Plymouth Plantation
Par Carla Gardina Pestana. 2020
The English settlement at Plymouth has usually been seen in isolation. Indeed, the colonists gain our admiration in part because…
we envision them arriving on a desolate, frozen shore, far from assistance and forced to endure a deadly first winter alone. Yet Plymouth was, from its first year, a place connected to other places. Going beyond the tales we learned from schoolbooks, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an illuminating account of life in Plymouth Plantation.The colony was embedded in a network of trade and sociability. The Wampanoag, whose abandoned village the new arrivals used for their first settlement, were only the first among many people the English encountered and upon whom they came to rely. The colonists interacted with fishermen, merchants, investors, and numerous others who passed through the region. Plymouth was thereby linked to England, Europe, the Caribbean, Virginia, the American interior, and the coastal ports of West Africa. Pestana also draws out many colorful stories-of stolen red stockings, a teenager playing with gunpowder aboard ship, the gift of a chicken hurried through the woods to a sickbed. These moments speak intimately of the early North American experience beyond familiar events like the first Thanksgiving.On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of the settlement, The World of Plymouth Plantation recovers the sense of real life there and sets the colony properly within global historyRooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961
Par Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock, Adrian Werner. 2018
Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the…
names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression, and inflation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network. At the city’s edge, Rooster Town grew without city services as rural Métis arrived to participate in the urban economy and build their own houses while keeping Métis culture and community as a central part of their lives. In other growing settler cities, the Indigenous experience was largely characterized by removal and confinement. But the continuing presence of Métis living and working in the city, and the establishment of Rooster Town itself, made the Winnipeg experience unique. Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unofficially in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.Le piège de la liberté: les peuples autochtones dans l'engrenage des régimes coloniaux
Par Jean-Philippe Warren, Denys Delâge. 2017
La collision de la civilisation amérindienne avec la civilisation européenne a été d'une brutalité inouïe. Des travaux fouillés ont fait…
voir comment les populations aborigènes ont souffert à la fois du choc microbien, des politiques plus ou moins concertées d'extermination des puissances coloniales, des invasions militaires et de la négligence assumée des autorités gouvernementales. Cependant, les difficultés des peuples amérindiens du nord-est de l'Amérique à s'approprier ce qu'on a pris l'habitude de nommer le monde moderne ne provenaient pas uniquement de la méchanceté des « Blancs », de la violence des armes ou des épidémies. Ils ont également été brisés, malgré d'héroïques résistances, sur le terrain de la culture, entendue ici dans son sens le plus large.Retirement income for life: Getting more without saving more
Par Frederick Vettese. 2020
Canada's #1 bestselling retirement income book is now completely revised and updated. Vettese will show you how to mitigate risk…
and secure your financial future in these unpredictable times. As COVID-19 rocks the economy in an unprecedented black swan event, retirees and those who are preparing to retire need answers to pressing questions about their financial futures. Originally published in 2018, the second edition of Retirement Income for Life , has been completely revised and updated, and now includes: New chapters on early retirement, retiring single, what to do when one spouse dies young, and more. Three strategies for mitigating your personal financial risk in the current downturn in equities and other investment products. Advice on how to plan for (and even benefit from) the coming bear market, resulting from COVID-19, which will create unprecedented equity buying opportunities, possibly as early as 2021. Information on the impact of unbearably low interest rates on annuities and fixed income investments and what to do if you hold them. The reasons retirees should be deferring CPP until age 70 and why the case for this is stronger than ever. Author Frederick Vettese demystifies a complex and often frightening subject and provides practical, actionable advice based on five enhancements the reader can make to mitigate risk and secure their financial future. With over one thousand Canadians turning 65 every day, the cultivation of good decumulation practices — the way in which you draw down assets in retirement, ideally to have a secure income for the rest of your life — has become an urgent matter that no one can afford to ignoreGet good with money: Ten simple steps to becoming financially whole
Par Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche. 2021
A ten-step plan for finding peace, safety, and harmony with your money—no matter how big or small your goals and…
no matter how rocky the market might be—by the inspiring and savvy &“Budgetnista.&” &“No matter where you stand in your money journey, Get Good with Money has a lesson or two for you!&”—Erin Lowry, bestselling author of the Broke Millennial series Tiffany Aliche was a successful pre-school teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole. As she began to chart the path to her own financial rescue, the outline of her ten-step formula for attaining both financial security and peace of mind began to take shape. These principles have now helped more than one million women worldwide save and pay off millions in debt, and begin planning for a richer life. Revealing this practical ten-step process for the first time in its entirety, Get Good with Money introduces the powerful concept of building wealth through financial wholeness : a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems. With helpful checklists, worksheets, a tool kit of resources, and advanced advice from experts who Tiffany herself relies on (her &“Budgetnista Boosters&”), Get Good with Money gets crystal clear on the short-term actions that lead to long-term goals, including: • A simple technique to determine your baseline or &“noodle budget,&” examine and systemize your expenses, and lay out a plan that allows you to say yes to your dreams. • An assessment tool that helps you understand whether you have a &“don't make enough&” problem or a &“spend too much&” issue—as well as ways to fix both. • Best practices for saving for a rainy day (aka job loss), a big-ticket item (a house, a trip, a car), and money that can be invested for your future. • Detailed advice and action steps for taking charge of your credit score, maximizing bill-paying automation, savings and investing, and calculating your life, disability, and property insurance needs. • Ways to protect your beneficiaries' future, and ensure that your financial wishes will stand the test of time. An invaluable guide to cultivating good financial habits and making your money work for you, Get Good with Money will help you build a solid foundation for your life (and legacy) that&’s rich in every wayLa retraite avant 40 ans: comment déjouer le système pour atteindre la liberté financière
Par Jean-Sébastien Pilotte. 2020
Une fois passé le cap de la quarantaine, travailler devient facultatif pour la plupart des Québécois. Quoi, vous n'étiez pas…
au courant? En fait, il s'agit du secret le mieux gardé de notre système économique: la surconsommation et l'analphabétisme financier nous maintiennent artificiellement prisonniers du métro-boulot-dodo.Inspiré par la stratégie FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early), j'ai moi-même pris ma retraite à 39 ans, sans gagner à la loterie et en dépit d'un salaire moyen. Déjouer le système pour atteindre la liberté financière, même en temps de pandémie, ça vous tente?Ce livre résume comment j'y suis arrivé et comment vous pouvez aussi y parvenir.&“Terrific.&” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times &“ A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that…
lies beneath. &” – Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, a &“terrifically readable&” ( Los Angeles Times ) account of one of the most persistent &“a lternative facts &” in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries. But Spalding would succeed as a propagandist, inventing a story that recast his friend as a hero, and helped to fuel the massive westward migration that would eventually lead to the devastation of those they had purportedly set out to save. As Spalding told it, after uncovering a British and Catholic plot to steal the Oregon Territory from the United States, Whitman undertook a heroic solo ride across the country to alert the President. In fact, he had traveled to Washington to save his own job. Soon after his return, Whitman, his wife, and eleven others were massacred by a group of Cayuse. Though they had ample reason - Whitman supported the explosion of white migration that was encroaching on their territory, and seemed to blame for a deadly measles outbreak - the Cayuse were portrayed as murderous savages. Five were executed. This fascinating, impeccably researched narrative traces the ripple effect of these events across the century that followed. While the Cayuse eventually lost the vast majority of their territory, thanks to the efforts of Spalding and others who turned the story to their own purposes, Whitman was celebrated well into the middle of the 20th century for having "saved Oregon." Accounts of his heroic exploits appeared in congressional documents, The New York Times , and Life magazine, and became a central founding myth of the Pacific Northwest. Exposing the hucksterism and self-interest at the root of American myth-making, Murder at the Mission reminds us of the cost of American expansion, and of the problems that can arise when history is told only by the victors101 trucs en investissement immobilier
Par Jacques Lépine, Yvan Cournoyer. 2016
Forts de leurs expériences, Jacques Lépine et Yvan Cournoyer, deux pionniers de la formation immobilière au Québec et experts investisseurs…
immobiliers, proposent leurs expertises sur les divers aspects relatifs à tout investissement immobilier. Pour réussir dans ce domaine, il est essentiel de connaître toutes les notions de base pour maximiser vos placements et obtenir ainsi le meilleur rendement possible. Alors, que ce soit pour ceux et celles qui veulent s'enrichir à long terme ou encore générer rapidement des liquidités par des flips, cet ouvrage vous permettra une planification optimale grâce à ses multiples et précieux conseils, vous évitant ainsi plusieurs erreurs communes aux investisseurs en immobilier, et qui sont parfois onéreuses. Mais attention, bien qu'il ne se veuille pas une réponse finale à toute situation, 101 trucs en investissement immobilier vous orientera vers les solutions possibles selon les événements, les situations et les options qui se présenteront. Qui plus est, vous y trouverez les connaissances utiles pour faire les bons choix, tant pour : la recherche ; l'analyse ; le financement ; l'administration et la gestion ; la comptabilité ; la fiscalité ; l'achat ou la vente. Écrit par deux passionnés de l'immobilier dans un langage simple et à la portée de tous, les auteurs sauront vous convaincre que l'immobilier demeure le meilleur placement qui soit quand il est bien planifié, sans oublier de vous souligner que votre PROFIT SE FAIT TOUJOURS À L'ACHAT.For most people, planning for the future is usually last on the to-do list. They simply wait to long to…
save and plan—and then panic. Licensed Financial Advisor Christine Ibbotson offers accessible and realistic guidelines in a series of achievable steps, from debt elimination to wealth management. Ibbotson’s book is sure to leave readers with all the tools and techniques to create an easy-to-follow financial plan.