The Veiled Sceptre
Author: Anne Twomey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-12
Total Pages: 913
ISBN-13: 1107056780
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Author: Anne Twomey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-12
Total Pages: 913
ISBN-13: 1107056780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe extension to other Realms of the reserve power to refuse a dissolution
Author: Gordon Gibson
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0889752435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe relationship between the individual and the collective has been the major force in human life from time immemorial but the character of that relationship has evolved over time. In one dark corner of this long drama, a special case of the relationship between individual and collective has been playing out in Canada in the lives of Native Indians. In this particular corner, the collective assumes an importance unthinkable in the mainstream. Indian policy, imposed by the mainstream on some Canadians - "Indians" - has built for them a world that is both a fortress and a prison. The effects on the individuals within that system have been profound.
Author: Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 088975201X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Kopas
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0774858141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Taking the Air, Paul Kopas takes a comprehensive approach to the policy aspects of the management of parks and protected areas. He scrutinizes the policy-making process for national parks since the mid-1950s and interrogates the rationale and policies that have governed their administration. He argues that national parks and park policy reflect not only environmental concerns but also the political and social attitudes of bureaucrats, citizens, interest groups, Aboriginal peoples, and legal authorities. He explores how the goals of each group have been shaped by the historical context of park policy, influencing the shape and weight of their contributions.
Author: J. L. Granatstein
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780006385639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bestselling rating of our 20 prime ministers, from Mackenzie King to Kim Campbell, offers provocative new insights into the nature of political leadership in Canada
Author: Joy Kogawa
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 073523390X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the American Book Award Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.
Author: Shannon Stettner
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1771991593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually those of the leaders of women’s and abortion rights organizations, women who hold political office, and, on occasion, female physicians. We also hear quite frequently from spokeswomen for anti-abortion groups. Rarely, however, do we hear the voices of ordinary women—women whose lives have been in some way touched by abortion. Their thoughts typically owe more to human circumstance than to ideology, and without them, we run the risk of thinking and talking about the issue of abortion only in the abstract. Without Apology seeks to address this issue by gathering the voices of activists, feminists, and scholars as well as abortion providers and clinic support staff alongside the stories of women whose experience with abortion is more personal. With the particular aim of moving beyond the polarizing rhetoric that has characterized the issue of abortion and reproductive justice for so long, Without Apology is an engrossing and arresting account that will promote both reflection and discussion.
Author: Becki Ross
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009-07-25
Total Pages: 818
ISBN-13: 1442697229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver that provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Drawing on extensive archival materials and fifty first-person accounts of former dancers, strip-club owners, booking agents, choreographers, and musicians, Ross reveals stories that are deeply flavoured with an era before "striptease fell from grace because the world stopped dreaming," in the words of ex-dancer Lindalee Tracey. Though jobs in this particular industry are often perceived as having little in common with other sorts of work, retired dancers' accounts resonate surprisingly with those of contemporary service workers, including perceptions of unionization and workplace benefits and hazards. Ross also traces the sanitization and subsequent integration of striptease style and neo-burlesque trends into mass culture, examining continuity and change to ultimately demonstrate that Vancouver's glitzy nightclub scene, often condemned as a quasi-legal strain of urban blight, in fact greased the economic engine of the post-war city. Provocative and challenging, Burlesque West combines the economic, the social, the sexual, and the personal, and is sure to intellectually tantalize.
Author: Sophie McCall
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2017-05-26
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 1771123028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.” —Thomas King, in this volume Read, Listen, Tell brings together an extraordinary range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North America). From short fiction to as-told-to narratives, from illustrated stories to personal essays, these stories celebrate the strength of heritage and the liveliness of innovation. Ranging in tone from humorous to defiant to triumphant, the stories explore core concepts in Indigenous literary expression, such as the relations between land, language, and community, the variety of narrative forms, and the continuities between oral and written forms of expression. Rich in insight and bold in execution, the stories proclaim the diversity, vitality, and depth of Indigenous writing. Building on two decades of scholarly work to centre Indigenous knowledges and perspectives, the book transforms literary method while respecting and honouring Indigenous histories and peoples of these lands. It includes stories by acclaimed writers like Thomas King, Sherman Alexie, Paula Gunn Allen, and Eden Robinson, a new generation of emergent writers, and writers and storytellers who have often been excluded from the canon, such as French- and Spanish-language Indigenous authors, Indigenous authors from Mexico, Chicana/o authors, Indigenous-language authors, works in translation, and “lost“ or underappreciated texts. In a place and time when Indigenous people often have to contend with representations that marginalize or devalue their intellectual and cultural heritage, this collection is a testament to Indigenous resilience and creativity. It shows that the ways in which we read, listen, and tell play key roles in how we establish relationships with one another, and how we might share knowledges across cultures, languages, and social spaces.
Author: Sir Robert Laird Borden
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 42
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