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By George Parkin Grant. 2000
Originally written in 1965, Grant believed that Canada's absorption into the United States was inevitable, considering the large influence of…
American commerce, culture, and technology. He also felt that decisions taken in the 1940s undermined the country's ability to set foreign and defence policy in the 1960s. Forty years later, his framework for debate has held up through free trade, the anti-ballistic missile defence shield, Iraq, and one mad cow. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2000, c1965.By Buzz Hargrove, Wayne Skene. 1998
The leader of the Canadian Auto Workers union shares his opinions on Bob Rae's NDP and the Tories' Common Sense…
Revolution. He argues that the "Days of Action" protests are vital to Canada as our governments threaten to unravel existing social programs. He believes that unless Canadians start to make their opinions known our social programs could disappear leaving thousands of Canadians with little or no support. 1998.By Christophe Tardieu. 2017
Vive le Québec libre ! Ce 24 juillet 1967, au balcon de l'hôtel de ville de Montréal, Charles de Gaulle…
lance un appel promis à entrer dans l'histoire. ''Vous venez de réparer la dette de Louis XV'' lui glisse un de ses conseillers, évoquant l'abandon de la Nouvelle-France à l'Angleterre en 1763. Qu'a voulu dire et faire le Général ? Avec quelle vision a-t-il préparé ce voyage ? Comment a-t-il mené ce périple sur les pas de Jacques Cartier et de tous les héros d'une formidable épopée ? Quelle mémoire a-t-il ranimée, quel avenir a-t-il dessiné, et au prix de quel scandale international ? Ce sont ces quatre jours d'incroyable odyssée et ces cinq siècles d'histoire contrastée dont Christophe Tardieu se fait ici le chroniqueur érudit et passionné. Sans en oublier la brûlante actualité : qu'en est-il aujourdhui de l'hégémonie américaine, de l'indépendantisme québécois, de l'indépendance française ? De la liberté des peuples face à la mainmise des empires ? De la survie des langues et des cultures au regard de la mondialisation ? 2017.By Pierre Grimal. 1972
La littérature latine est celle de la Rome républicaine, impériale et triomphante. Du IIIe siècle av. J.-C. au Ve siècle…
de notre ère, cet ouvrage nous invite à découvrir les oeuvres de Livius, Caton, Cicéron, Ovide, Horace, Virgile, Sénèque, Tacite... 1972.By Catherine Mory, Daniel Berlion. 2013
"Un panorama des principaux genres et mouvements littéraires; des biographies vivantes des grands écrivains français et une analyse de leurs…
apports et de leurs styles; des focus sur les oeuvres les plus importantes de la littérature. "-- 4e de couv.By René Lévesque. 1978
By Mark Bourrie. 2015
The author exposes how trends have conspired to simultaneously silence the Canadian media and elect an anti-intellectual government determined to…
conduct business in private. Drawing evidence from multiple cases and examples, he demonstrates how budget cuts have been used to suppress the collection of facts that embarrass the government's position or undermine its ideologically based decision-making. Bourrie gives advice on how to take back your right to be informed and to be heard. 2015.By Knowlton Nash. 1990
The hatred that existed between President John Kennedy and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was most apparent during the Cuban Missile…
Crisis. This relationship had an important impact on the 1963 election which Diefenbaker lost to Lester Pearson.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 Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois. 2015
In 2012, more than 300,000 students across Quebec protested a tuition fee hike by striking from their classes. The author…
takes readers step-by-step through the strike, recounting the confrontations with journalists, ministers, judges, and police. Along the way he exposes the moral and intellectual poverty of the Quebec elite and celebrates the remarkable energy of the students who opposed the mercenary attitude of the austerity agenda. 2015. Uniform title: Tenir tête.By James S McLean. 2012
Analyzing the 2005-06 federal election campaign, McLean considers the ways in which the idea of credibility is used to explain…
how messages are crafted and articulated, how journalists are implicated, and what the Canadian public needs to know about what is at stake in the competition for votes. Offers insights into the NDP breakthroughs of 2011, the full meaning of Quebec's "orange wave," and the future of a party preparing for a new reality. 2012.By David Shields, Powell Caleb. 2014
An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art - beers included. Caleb Powell always wanted to…
become an artist, but he overcommitted to life, whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. They spend four days at a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking; they rewatch My Dinner with André and The Trip, relax in a hot tub, and talk about everything they can think of in the name of exploring and debating life and art, marriage, family, sports, sex, happiness, drugs, death, betrayal - and, of course, writers and writing. 2014.Allan Gotlieb served as the Canadian ambassador to the United States from 1981 to 1989. He gained a reputation as…
a master of Washington's intricate diplomatic culture. Based on his experiences, he argues that the practice of diplomacy in Washington has changed considerably in recent years. It is key to Canadian foreign policy to understand these new changes and changes in how our largest trading partner and most important ally governs itself. 1991.By Laurier L LaPierre. 1987
By Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Harry Zohn. 1973
The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin rank among the most influential of the post-war era. "Illuminations" contains essays on art…
and philosophy, as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust and book collecting. 1973. Uniform title: Schriften.By Nick Mount. 2017
In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature was transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon…
that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In "Arrival", acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom? 2017.By Shawn Katz. 2015
In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Quebec’s governing Liberal Party announced a significant increase in university tuition fees. Enraged…
that the government would undermine a legacy of public education, the youth of Quebec took to the streets in a student strike under the banner of the carres rouges. They fought not merely for education, but for the future: a future they felt was being destroyed by the unrelenting march of capitalism, intent on the exploitation of citizens and precious natural resources. 2015.By Rafe Mair. 1998
The author, an outspoken nationalist, covers the gamut of Canadian politics from the West's view on separatism to nationalism and…
the state of Canada. Mair also offers humorous recollections from the many call-in shows he's hosted and explores the British Columbian mindset. 1998.By George Melnyk. 1993
In six essays, historian and philosopher Melnyk examines the political climate of Western Canada in light of its culture and…
history. He argues that Westerners must go beyond the image of themselves as "alienated" from the rest of Canada and develop a more positive identity. c1993.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.