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By Gordon Laird. 1998
Alberta premier Ralph Klein, the Reform Party's Preston Manning, and Ontario premier Mike Harris have all attempted to depict themselves…
as modern day cowboys, tough-talking rebels. But the author questions whether their actions live up to their images. Are they right-wing rebels or guardians of the status quo?By William Johnson. 2005
Chronicles Harper's political beginnings, his stint with the Mulroney Progressive Conservatives, the events that led to him becoming a key…
architect of the Reform party, and his rescue of the Canadian Alliance, which led to the merger with the Progressive Conservatives to create the new Conservative Party. Author Johnson attempts to dispel the myths and set out the facts about the (then) leader of the opposition. Bestseller 2005.By Ronald Wright. 1992
Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.By Stevie Cameron. 1989
A tantalizing, and often scandalous, view of the powerful people in Ottawa. The author looks at the uses and abuses…
of privilege, the backroom decisions, and the changes in the power structure. 1989.By Peter Edwards. 2001
On September 4, 1995, several Stoney Point Natives entered Ipperwash Provincial Park, near Sarnia, Ontario, and began a peaceful protest…
aimed at reclaiming a traditional burial ground. Within 72 hours, one of the protestors was dead, shot by an OPP officer. Six years later, Peter Edwards investigates the event. 2001.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.By Warren Kinsella. 2001
Warren Kinsella is a lawyer and political consultant who has served as political aide to Jean Chrétien and played key…
roles in two successful Chrétien campaigns. He is also an enthusiastic advocate of tough, in-your-face politics - politics that infuriates opponents, but wins vote. Here, Kinsella reveals what really goes on inside campaigns, including insider stories from campaigns and campaigners in Canada and the United States. 2001.By Will Ferguson. 1999
Ferguson takes a humorous look at Canadian leaders, past and present. He divides them into two categories, bastards and boneheads.…
According to this system the bastards succeed while the boneheads stumble along. Ferguson doesn't limit his system to the prime ministers. He also considers the key personalities behind some of the most momentous events in Canadian history. c1999.By Linda McQuaig. 2007
McQuaig feels that the Canadian government has followed in close step with America, becoming a belligerent force in the world…
and abandoning Canada's traditional role as a leading peacekeeping nation, as well as a fair-minded mediator and conciliator. It has also joined the United States in becoming a leading obstructionist in worldwide efforts to deal with climate change. This switch in direction has redefined the way Canada operates in the world and how we are perceived. 2007.By Chantal Hébert. 2007
On January 23, 2006, political writer and broadcaster Hébert stood in a Calgary convention hall with 2,000 Alberta Conservatives, who…
were cheering the election of ten Tory MPs from Quebec. Just months before, this would have been inconceivable, since more than ten years previously, the Quebec-Alberta Coalition cobbled together by Brian Mulroney had dissolved, leading to the birth of the Bloc Québecois and the Reform Party. Hébert delivers a post-mortem of the Canadian coalitions that died that election night, and an examination of our changing political landscape. 2007.By Ruth Teichroeb. 1997
In 1988, a 13-year-old Ojibwa boy named Lester Desjarlais committed suicide. Journalist Ruth Teichroeb covered the inquest into his death,…
which was scheduled for one day, but which lasted three months. She relates what happened to Lester as he left the Sandy Bay First Nations reserve and found himself in a maze of foster homes, mental hospitals, and treatment centres. Sexual content and descriptions of violence. 1997.By Charlotte Gray. 2002
An exploration of the many dimensions of Pauline Johnson's life. Complex and talented, she was a native rights advocate ahead…
of her time; a lyric poet who performed vaudevillian skits; a New Woman who wrote for The Mother's Magazine; and an incurable romantic who never married. 2002.Cairns, through the study of the historical record, discusses the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other…
in Canada. He considers the differences between the assimilationist assumptions of the imperial era and the more recent attempts at nation-to-nation negotiations supported by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and contemplates whether either of these approaches can lead to an outcome that will satisfy both sides. 2000.By Maggie Siggins. 2005
For over 200 years, the Cree community of Pelican Narrows has endured a torturous relationship with encroaching European culture, from…
the Hudson Bay factors and missionaries of earlier times to the bureaucrats and police of today. Author Siggins gives us the human face behind the newspaper headlines of Native issues, after years of research on a community she has known most of her life. 2005.By John Ibbitson. 2005
Canada has become a nation of solitudes - the West, the English Centre, the French Centre, the East - each…
of which has its own concerns which in turn are not being sufficiently recognized by the major political parties. To save the country, Ibbitson believes in a devolution of power and dollars from the federal to the provincial level, a revamping of Medicare, and a refashioning of the electoral system. He also dismantles the old ways of thinking about Canada's immigration, free trade, social, and defence policies. 2005.By Sandra Gwyn. 1984
A compelling account of private life in the age of Macdonald and Laurier. The author has used personal letters, diaries,…
scrapbooks, memoirs and social columns. 1984 Governor General's Award winner. c1984.By Maude Barlow. 2005
Barlow believes that big business is eager to use the fear of terrorism to erase the North American border, which…
would harmonize our foreign, trade, military, security, social, and resources policies. The author walks us through the implications for Canada, and shows us how much we have already lost through such policies as the proportional energy-sharing agreement of NAFTA. She suggests a range of possible solutions for maintaining the kind of country and society we want. 2005.By Peter C Newman. 2005
This book is an outrageous and intimate portrait of a Canadian prime minister, as told in his own words. There…
has never been a political book like this, and there will almost certainly never be another. Out of The Secret Mulroney Tapes emerges a startling picture of the politician whose reign shocked and appalled and yet also revolutionized this country. No other prime minister in Canadian history aroused a stronger emotional response than Brian Mulroney. Some strong language. 2005.By Mark Abley. 2003
An award-winning Canadian journalist documents the unprecedented extinction of the world's less-spoken languages. Drawing on his encounters with linguistic remnants…
from the arctic to aboriginal Australia, he illustrates threats to many endangered tongues. The report also speaks to the relationship between language and identity, and warns of globalization's consequences. 2003.