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Fights of our lives: elections, leadership, and the making of Canada
Par John Duffy. 2002
A study of five pivotal Canadian election campaigns, covering 135 years, each featuring a crucial issue, such as the Constitution,…
and which yielded a nation-altering result. Also covers twenty-nine other federal elections since Confederation, which provide the background against which the five crucial fights come into focus. 2002.Faultlines: struggling for a Canadian vision
Par Jeffrey Simpson. 1993
Political columnist Jeffrey Simpson portrays eight individuals who have been prominent in the public debate about re-defining Canada. The individuals…
are Derek Burney, Mary Eberts, Preston Manning, Clyde Wells, George Erasmus, Joe Fratesi, Lucien Bouchard, and Leon Dion. 1993.Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper's new conservative agenda
Par Brooke Jeffrey. 2015
Providing fascinating insight into the origins of a new conservative vision for the economy, federalism, and domestic and foreign policies,…
the author critically considers Prime Minister Harper’s successes and failures, and evaluates the likely outcome of his long-term vision for Canada. 2015.Echoes of the ancient skies: the astronomy of lost civilizations
Par E. C Krupp. 1983
Defining moments: dispatches from an unfinished revolution
Par Peter C Newman. 1997
Newman tackles the upheavals which reshaped Canadian society in the 1990s. He talks about the major figures in Canada and…
the issues which rose to prominence. He also continues his chronicle of how Canada is changing as it loses its institutional touchstones, and why Eaton's is the latest icon to fall from grace. 1997.Discovering the iceman: what was it like to find a 5,300-year-old mummy? (I was there)
Par Shelley Tanaka. 1996
In 1991, two hikers discovered the remains of a Stone Age Man over 5,000 years old in the Alps. Be…
transported back to the Iceman's ancient world - find out who he was, how he lived, and how he died on a mountain ridge. Grades 3-6. 1996.Double vision: the inside story of the Liberals in power
Par Edward Greenspon, Anthony Wilson-Smith. 1996
Two political journalists chart the first year's of Jean Chrétien's government. They discuss the main events of Chrétien's leadership, especially…
the fight against the deficit, and portray the partnership which Chrétien and finance minister Paul Martin have forged. 1996.Deep water, ancient ships: the treasure vault of the Mediterranean
Par Willard Bascom. 1976
A collection of essays by 16 contributors, including David Suzuki, Ralph Nader, Kevin Page, Maude Barlow, and Linda McQuaig. These…
and other experts in their fields document key changes put in place by the Harper government in the areas of trade deals, the environment, youth activism, indigenous rights, economic growth, taxes, and wealth and poverty. 2015.Cold war Canada: the making of a national insecurity state, 1945-1957
Par Reginald Whitaker, Gary Marcuse. 1994
The authors examine the creation of Canada's Cold War policy, the emergence of the new security state, and the alignment…
of Canada with the United States in the global Cold War. By scrutinizing both general areas and specific events, the authors reveal a systematic state-sponsored repression of communists and the Left. They argue that Canada's role in the Cold War had a chilling effect on the practice of democracy and undermined Canadian political and economic sovereignty. 1994.Canada since 1945: power, politics, and provincialism
Par John English, Robert Bothwell, Ian M Drummond. 1989
The authors present the history and development of Canada since the end of the Second World War. Dividing the books…
into sections based on the different government administrations from 1945 to 1989, they discuss the political and economic policies of each administration, as well as federalism, external affairs, and social and cultural affairs. 1989.Brave new Canada: meeting the challenge of a changing world
Par Fen Osler Hampson, Derek H Burney. 2014
Globalization and the shifting tectonic plates of the international system have led to an increasingly competitive world. If Canada hopes…
to gain advantage from the dramatic developments underway, it will have to aggressively adapt its foreign and domestic policies and priorities under the clear direction of the federal government or accept being left behind. The authors identify the key trends that are reshaping the world's geopolitics and economics and discuss the challenges Canada confronts with the rise of China and other global centres of power. Their examination of a wide range of themes - including the place of pluralistic democratic values in diplomacy, economics, and trade, the ways that Canada should reset relations with its neighbour to the south, as well as how to manage new global security threats - paints a picture of how Canada can become bold, assertive, and confident and easily adjust to a new global landscape. 2014.Canada, Quebec, and the uses of nationalism
Par Ramsay Cook. 1986
Nationalism, writes the author, is a doctrine which asserts that humanity is naturally divided into groups with common characteristics, and…
that these characteristics mean that the groups have a right to control a particular place. Cook uses this definition to discuss the development of nationalism in Canada, and its simultaneous development in Quebec, including cultural, linguistic, and political nationalism. c1986.Cold terror: how Canada nurtures and exports terrorism around the world
Par Stewart Bell. 2004
Canada's lax laws and lack of vigilance have put its neighbours and the world community at risk. Draws on classified…
intelligence documents, front-line accounts, exclusive interviews with senior counterterrorism officials, the victims of terrorist attacks, and terrorists themselves, to provide evidence that Canada is an important base activity for terrorist groups. 2004.Bones: discovering the first Americans
Par Elaine Dewar. 2001
With Native American activists, white supremacists, DNA experts, and anthropologists all vying for control of ancient remains, Dewar explores the…
ambiguous terrain left behind when a long-standing paradigm is swept away by new discoveries. Presents stories that rarely find their way into scientific journals or newspapers - stories of mysterious deaths, of the bones of evil shamans, and the shadows that fall on the lives of scientists who've pulled them from the ground. 2001.Canadian communism: the Stalin years and beyond
Par Norman Penner. 1988
The history of the Communist Party of Canada with comparisons to similar movements in Great Britain, the United States and…
France. Examines the Party's contribution to the establishment of trade unions and aid to Spain's government during the Civil War. Textbook format.Bones of contention: controversies in the search for human origins
Par Roger Lewin. 1987
By focusing on several landmark fossil discoveries, the author reveals how the interpretation of data is heavily dependent upon an…
anthropologist's cultural and personal biases, emotions, pre-conceptions, and professional loyalties. 1987.Behind closed doors: how the rich won control of Canada's tax system-- and ended up richer
Par Linda McQuaig. 1987
In this examination of the Canadian tax system, the author considers the thousands of wealthy Canadians who do not pay…
taxes. Rather than increasing the tax burden on the wealthy, the government, under the guise of tax reform, is lowering individual tax rates while increasing sales tax. 1987.Becoming Canada: our story, our politics, our future
Par Ken Dryden. 2010
Dryden argues that we have paid a price for having the wrong sense of ourselves as a country - the…
old definition of Canada as genial but sometimes too self-deprecating and ambition-killing is no longer the real story. He observes a sea change taking place among Canadians, who want something more for their country. The ambition of Canada’s policies and the nature of our politics will not change, Dryden says, until we conceive of a new story for the nation. 2010.Students and prominent Canadians respond to the challenge: If you were Prime Minister of Canada, what would you do to…
improve living standards and unite the country? Ideas range from one student's call to abandon partisan politics to Frank Ogden's suggestion of "constructive destruction." 1996.