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Author: Mark Kearney
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1999-09
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780888822130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles a century of achievements, trends, important and influential people, and events that have shaped this country.
Author: Gary Richard Miedema
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780773528772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study uses the Centennial Celebrations of 1967 and Expo 67 to explore how religion informed Canadian nation-building and national identities in the 1960s.
Author: Joyce Wayne
Publisher: Mosaic Press
Published: 2024-08-22
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1771617543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the legacy of Robin Mathews, an influential rabble-rouser, provocateur, and patriot who challenged Canada's elites and inspired a distinct Canadian identity. In this collection of eight original essays, contributors such as Daniel Drache, Pat Smart, Duncan Cameron, and Susan Crean delve into Mathews' profound impact on Canadian politics and culture from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Mathews passionately debated corporate takeovers, foreign control of trade unions, media ownership, and cultural sovereignty. His charismatic presence and relentless energy galvanized students, professors, politicians, and artists across the country. This collection captures his tireless efforts to promote cultural literacy and economic independence, contributing to the growth of Canadian studies, the Canadian trade union movement, and the Great Canadian Theatre Company.Explore Mathews' enduring influence through insightful essays that celebrate his contributions to Canada's national identity and cultural landscape.
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 606
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 1610
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Magda Fahrni
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2008-07-01
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 077485815X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreating Postwar Canada showcases new research on this complex period, exploring postwar Canada's diverse symbols and battlegrounds. Contributors to the first half of the collection consider evolving definitions of the nation, examining the ways in which Canada was reimagined to include both the Canadian North and landscapes structured by trade and commerce. The essays in the latter half analyze debates on shopping hours, professional striptease, the "provider" role of fathers, interracial adoption, sexuality on campus, and illegal drug use, issues that shaped how the country defined itself in sociocultural and political terms. This collection contributes to the historiography of nationalism, gender and the family, consumer cultures, and countercultures.
Author: Peter J. McCormick
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 144260641X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms became an entrenched part of the Canadian Constitution on April 17, 1982. The Charter represented a significant change in Canadian constitutional order and carried the courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, decisively into some of the biggest controversies in Canadian politics. Although the impact of the Charter on Canadian law and society was profound, a new status quo has been established. Even though there will be future Charter surprises and decisions that will claim news headlines, Peter J. McCormick argues that these cases will be occasional rather than frequent, and that the Charter "revolution" is over. Or, as he puts it in his introduction, "I will tell a story about the Charter, about the big ripples that have gradually but steadily died away such that the surface of the pond is now almost smooth." The End of the Charter Revolution explores the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, beginning with a general historical background, followed by a survey of the significant changes brought about as Charter decisions were made. The book addresses a series of specific cases made before the Dickson, Lamer, and McLachlin Courts, and then provides empirical data to support the argument that the Charter revolution has ended. The Supreme Court has without question become "a national institution of the first order," but even though the Charter is a large part of why this has happened, it is not Charter decisions that will showcase the exercise of this power in the future.
Author: Taylor Robertson McDonald
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-03-17
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 3031258517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how popular narratives of Canadian identity became implicated in Canada’s foreign policy in the Global War on Terror. McDonald argues that Canada’s decisions to join the 2001 Afghanistan War yet abstain from the 2003 Iraq War became politically possible because parliamentarians linked these policies to similar narratives of an enduring Canadian identity - even while re-imagining their meanings. These decisions are explored through politicians’ mobilization of three discourses: Canada as America’s neighbour, Canada as protector of foreign civilians, and Canada as a champion of multilateralism. This book challenges conceptions of national identity as entirely stable or fluid and contests predominant arguments that downplay the role of identity discourses in Canadian foreign policy. The relevance of these narratives is assessed by exploring the rhetoric of Canadian foreign policy in light of contemporary international challenges, including the Donald Trump presidency, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Russia’s War on Ukraine.
