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L'amour du pauvre (Collection "papiers Collésquot)
By Jean Larose. 1991
Dans l'oeil de l'aigle: Washington face au Québec
By Jean-François Lisée. 1990
Grâce à 240 interviews d'hommes politiques, de conseillers présidentiels, d'agents de la CIA et de diplomates, le journaliste Jean-Francois Lisée…
a tissé la trame vivante et enlevée de l'histoire des relations Québec-Washington depuis le début de la Révolution tranquille. 1990.Le Québec: un pays, une culture
By Françoise Tétu de Labsade. 1990
Le Québec a trois cent cinquante ans d'histoire. On peut dire qu'il a désormais une culture unique et identifiable comme…
telle. Ce livre, le premier en son genre, dégage une par une les couches historiques, sociales et artistiques qui se sont superposées pour former peu à peu la culture québécoise. 1990.The author indicts Stephen Harper for destroying the historic Canadian Conservative Party while prime minister and party leader, accusing him…
of turning a force for progressive Canadian values into an American Republican-style vehicle for right-wing ideologues. He urges Conservative progressives to reclaim their party from right-wing extremists and revive its commitment to nation-building and national unity; to re-brand itself, once again, as Progressive Conservative. 2016.Northern voices: Inuit writing in English
By Penny Petrone. 1988
The Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral historic tradition in their own language and a more recent tradition…
of written English. This collection includes legends, poetry, interviews, letters, essays, speeches and fiction. 1988.North spirit: travels among the Cree and Ojibway nations
By Paulette Jiles. 1995
Paulette Jiles first went to northern Ontario as a journalist for the CBC in 1974. Living and working with the…
Cree and Ojibway people of the north, she writes about the introduction of new technologies and communications systems, and their clash with traditional native culture, during her seven years there. 1995.My conversations with Canadians (Essais ; #no. 4)
By Lee Maracle. 2017
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one…
she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, prejudice and reconciliation (to name a few), are the heart of "My Conversations with Canadians". In prose essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long. Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life. Presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty…
other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family. Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.Nationalism without walls: the unbearable lightness of being Canadian
By Richard Gwyn. 1995
Political commentator Richard Gwyn surveys the current state of Canada, and presents his concerns about our future. Gwyn argues that…
Canadian identity is undergoing profound changes which may threaten Canadian nationalism. He believes that the Canadians will have to move away from group politics and place more emphasis on responsibilities than on rights and entitlements. c1995.Navigating a new world: Canada's global future
By Lloyd Axworthy. 2003
In this memoir, the long-time Winnipeg MP makes the case for what he calls "soft power" - a mix of…
foreign aid, multilateral diplomacy, and simple persuasion to achieve change in war-torn areas - and a foreign policy based on human security rather than the might of armies. He chronicles his efforts pursuing this agenda, including his work on the 1999 land-mine treaty, and also critically appraises the Bush administration's war on terror. He promotes his argument about Canada's vocation as a middle power - one which must work towards a humane and just world. 2003.My father's wake: how the Irish teach us to live, love, and die
By Kevin Toolis. 2018
Monique Jérôme-Forget
By Brigitte Pilote. 2015
" Dans cette autobiographie, écrite avec l'auteure Brigitte Pilote, celle que le public aura connue comme la Dame de fer…
du gouvernement Charest laisse tomber l'armure pour offrir le récit des épisodes fondateurs de sa vie, avec la sérénité d'une femme qui n'a plus rien à prouver. Monique Jérôme-Forget a été la seule élue québécoise, outre Jacques Parizeau, à cumuler les fonctions de présidente du Conseil du trésor et de ministre des Finances. Elle qualifie sa décennie en politique (1998-2009) de plus belle période de sa carrière et se remémore avec humour ses premiers pas maladroits de parlementaire, avant d'avoir assumé son propre style et son franc-parler, jugé parfois brutal par certains journalistes mais apprécié des citoyens. " -- 4e de couv.Money to burn: Trudeau, Mulroney, and the bankruptcy of Canada
By D'Arcy Jenish. 1996
Journalist D'Arcy Jenish examines Canada's worsening debt problems, from the beginnings of the debt in the 1970s, its growth in…
the 1980s, and the current attempts by the Chretien government to control the deficit. Arguing that ignoring the fiscal excesses of the past could imperil Canada's financial health, he also discusses steps taken by Alberta and Ontario to rein in their deficits. 1996.Les boeufs sont lents mais la terre est patiente (Collection Partis Pris Actuels)
By Pierre Falardeau. 1999
Avec son franc-parler habituel, Falardeau écrit pour lutter contre le désespoir. Il regroupe, dans ce recueil, des textes engagés (publiés…
ou non), des discours, des lettres, des projets de films qui tournent autour de thèmes comme l'indépendance, la lutte des classes, la pourriture du système, etc. 1999.Ecrits polémiques 1960-1981: La politique; Vol. 1
By Pierre Bourgault. 1982
Voici donc un choix de textes politiques retenus autant pour leur signification que pour leur qualité littéraire. Du RIN au…
mouvement souveraineté-association, du parti québécois au referendum, de Jean Lesage à Daniel Johnson, de Robert Bourassa à René Lévesque. 1982.Mingan my village
By Solange Messier. 2014
"Mingan my village" is a collection of 15 faces and 15 poems written by young Innu. Given a platform to…
be heard, the children chose to transport readers far away from the difficulties and problems related to their realities to see the beauty that surrounds them in nature. Winner of the 2013 Prix jeunesse des libraires du Québec (5-11 years category). Grades K-3 and older readers. 2014.Middle power, middle kingdom: what Canadians need to know about China in the 21st century
By David Mulroney. 2015
China’s rise is having a direct impact on our prosperity, our health and well-being, and our security here in Canada.…
China has become our second largest economic partner, not as important as the US is, but far bigger than all the rest. Canada exerts a magnetic pull on Chinese tourists, students, and home buyers. An assertive China is challenging the balance of power in the Pacific, and it is more than willing to reach across borders, including Canada’s, to steal technologies and to confront challenges to its ideology. Mulroney, the former ambassador to China, and a leader in forming a successful strategy in Afghanistan, discusses what our challenges in Afghanistan were and how we eventually got it right, and how these lessons can be applied to the future challenges of China, and beyond. 2015.Memory serves and other essays (Writer as critic ; #13)
By Lee Maracle. 2015
Gathers together the oratories that author Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures…
hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Stó:lō in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Stó:lō history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people. 2015. Uniform title: Essays.Medicine unbundled: a journey through the minefields of indigenous health care
By Gary Geddes. 2017
Me artsy: an exploration and deconstruction of the Aboriginal artistic spirit as seen and practised through various art forms that demonstrate reflections on society through an indigenous perspective, including talents not just limited to those considered
By Drew Hayden Taylor, Zacharias Kunuk. 2015
While First Nations cultural practice still honours traditional forms, contemporary indigenous artists have diversified into many areas. The fourteen contributors…
whose essays make up "Me Artsy" pursue such varied disciplines as filmmaking, gourmet cuisine, blues piano, fashion design, acting, writing and painting as well as traditional drumming and storytelling. Their concerns include the ones that occupy artists everywhere—how does one get started, where do you find inspiration, how does one make a living. What makes "Me Artsy" special is that all these concerns are always overlaid with an awareness of First Nations identity. 2015.