Mqup: 855 books
Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island
Culture and Belonging in a Fishing Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
In less than a decade, the island community has faced the degradation of the wild fishery and rapid growth of aquaculture, an increasing presence of multinational corporations, new federal initiatives with respect to aboriginal policies, and widespread social dysfunction. Joan Marshall uses over twelve...
Land of the Midnight Sun, Third Edition
A History of the Yukon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon’s long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-Second World War...
Hollow Tree
Fighting Addiction with Traditional Native Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
Before discovering native healing methods, Herb Nabigon could not imagine a life without alcohol. His powerful autobiography, The Hollow Tree, tells the story of his struggle to overcome addiction with the help of the spiritual teachings and brotherly love of his elders. Nabigon had spent much of...
by Jeff Noonan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Current patterns of global economic activity are not only unsustainable, but unethical - this claim is central to Materialist Ethics and Life-Value. Grounding the definition of ethical value in the natural and social requirements of life-support and life-development shared by all human beings, Jeff Noonan...
Writers' Rights
Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
As media industries undergo rapid change, the conditions of media work are shifting just as quickly, with an explosion in the number of journalists working as freelancers. Although commentary frequently lauds freelancers as ideal workers for the information age – adaptable, multi-skilled, and entrepreneurial...
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Thomas D'Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857, the first volume in a two-part biography, explores the development of those principles in Ireland and the United States. From his early temperance speeches in Wexford, Ireland, David Wilson follows McGee across the Atlantic, where at nineteen...
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
The Extreme Moderate, 1857-1868
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
To realize his vision, McGee became a strong supporter of the "new northern nationality." A spellbinding orator who emerged as the youngest and most intellectually gifted of the Fathers of Confederation, he fought what he saw as the atavistic and intolerant elements of Canadian life - the Orange Order,...
Canada Among Nations, 2011-2012
Canada and Mexico's Unfinished Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
In the decade following the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, economic and political relations between Canada and Mexico have expanded significantly. Today, Canada and Mexico are each other's third largest trading partners and, outside of the United States, Mexico is the second largest...
by Warren Magnusson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Despite decades of talk about globalization, democracy still depends on local self-government. In Local Self-Government and the Right to the City, Warren Magnusson argues that it is the principle behind claims to personal autonomy, community control, and national self-determination, and holds the promise...
by Stephen J.A. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Stephen Ward argues that present media practices are narrowly based within the borders of single country and thus unable to successfully inform the public about a globalized world. Presenting an ethical framework for work in multimedia, the author extends John Rawl’s theories of justice and the human...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Individual chapters highlight the unique issues related to policy making in this field - the important role of diverse Aboriginal organizations, the need to address Aboriginal and Treaty rights and the right to self-government, and the lack of governmental leadership - revealing a complex jurisdictional...
Citizenship as a Regime
Canadian and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
State building is an ongoing process that first defines legitimate citizenship and then generates citizens. Political analysts and social scientists now use the concept of citizenship as a lens for considering both the evolution of states and the development of their societies. In Citizenship as a...
Refereeing Identity
The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testosterone-fuelled bastion of masculinity. However, recent decades have also been a period of uncertainty and change for the game, where players and teams have been...
Merger Delusion
How Swallowing Its Suburbs Made an Even Bigger Mess of Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Powerless under the country's constitution, Canadian municipal governments often find themselves in conflict with their provincial masters. In 2002, the Province of Quebec forcibly merged all cities on the Island of Montreal into a single municipality - a decision that was partially reversed in 2006....