Through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told, from Jack Hodgins' Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood's Labrador, from Alice Munro's Ontario to James Houston's Arctic. Doug...
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Author:Gibson, DouglasSummary: -
Author:Pawłowska-Mainville, AgnieszkaSummary:A new tool for preserving Indigenous cultural heritages Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) refers to community-based practices, knowledges, and customs that are inherited and passed down through generations. While ICH has always existed...
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Paul Bley was barely into his twenties when he left Montreal for New York City, yet he had already played with Charlie Parker and subbed for Oscar Peterson at the Alberta Lounge. The piano prodigy had been leading his own bands in...
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Author:Teti, Vito, Loriggio, FrancescoSummary:This is a book about a small Southern Italian village and its offshoots in Toronto. It's about bread and figs and food in general, about Carnival and pilgrimages to religious sanctuaries, about fathers, mothers and children, about...
- Author:Rhindress, CharlieSummary:
Stompin' Tom Connors is a legend. There are very few Canadians who don?t know the foot-stompin' patriot in the cowboy hat who sang almost exclusively of the country he loved and called home. But there is much more to Tom Connors than '...
- Author:Florence, MelanieSummary:
This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them...
- Author:Fournier, SuzanneSummary:
The authors look at the abduction and re-settlement of Native American children by well-meaning but misguided authorities, during the cultural conflict that followed the arrival of Europeans in the New World. The children became the...
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Author:Huser, GlenSummary:Travis has been waiting to get to junior high. When that time finally comes, things are both better, and worse, than he had hoped. On the plus side are two great new teachers. On the minus side there's Shon Docker, Travis's old...
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Author:Maureen Fitzgerald, Guberman, Connie, Wolfe, MargieSummary:Still Ain't Satisfied - Canadian women certainly aren't! And this collection of twenty-seven articles on the major women's issues of the decade shows why feminists have only begun to fight. Women are still paid less than their male...
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Author:Mackey, LloydSummary:Any look at Stephen Harper and the new Conservative party requires an examination of the evangelical Christian legacy coming out of both the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties. In Stephen Harper: The Case for...
- Author:Laplante, LaurentSummary:
Non seulement le poids du Québec a cessé d’être digne de calcul dans l’ensemble canadien, mais les orientations dictées aujourd’hui par le pouvoir central du Canada vident le Québec des valeurs et des principes qui l’ont inspiré et...
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Author:Ibbitson, JohnSummary:The authoritative biography of Stephen Harper, to be published on the eve of the next election. and#xA0; As one of the important prime ministers in the life of our nation, Stephen Harper has reshaped Canada into a more conservative...
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Author:Windsor, LeeSummary:Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation from of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments.Twentieth century warfare is epitomized by the image of Allied tanks growling across the countryside,...
- Author:Dill, KhodiSummary:
Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white...
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Author:Razack, Sherene, Smith, Malinda, Thobani, SuneraSummary:What is a Canadian critical race feminism? As the contributors to this book note, the interventions of Canadian critical race feminists work to explicitly engage the Canadian state as a white settler society. The collection examines...
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Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge and then redemption on a farm run by an Indigenous man with wounds of...
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Author:Trimble, Linda, Arscott, Jane, Tremblay, ManonSummary:Following significant increases in women's electoral representation in the 1980s and '90s, progress has stalled. Today, there are only a few more women in Canada's parliament and legislatures than a decade ago. What has happened to the...
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Author:Hlinka, MichaelSummary:For the fifty years following the Second World War, Canada enjoyed a period of spectacular economic growth — the economy quadruple in size and the living standard of most Canadians steadily improved. However, in the years since, Canada...
- Author:Laxer, JamesSummary:
Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky, Davis in June 1808 and Lincoln the following February. John A....
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Author:Coles, Megan GailSummary:Annie Runningbird doesn’t have time for the games boys want her to play. She’s aging out of foster care on her next birthday. The system has decided she is an adult, so Annie must make adult decisions. Where will she live? How will she...
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