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by Timothy G. Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in holy figures in Canada. From the reputations of popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI as prolific saint-makers to the canonization of two figures associated with Canada - Brother André Bessette in 2010 and Kateri Tekakwitha in 2012 - saints are suddenly...
Daunting Enterprise of the Law
Essays in Honour of Harry W. Arthurs
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School and former president of Toronto’s York University, Harry W. Arthurs is one of Canada’s most widely respected scholars, educators, and policy makers in the world today. His enormous academic and institutional productivity has extended to administrative...
Call Me Giambattista
A Personal and Political Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
What draws a person to the political life? In Call Me Giambattista, John Ciaccia recounts his immigration to Canada from Italy as a small child in 1937 to his retirement from the National Assembly of Quebec in 1998. After studying at McGill University's Faculty of Law, practising in a Montreal law...
Bodily Subjects
Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s, Bodily Subjects explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept whose...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways. Canada in Cities examines this relationship to better understand the interplay among changing demographics, how local governments and citizens frame their arguments for federal action, and the ways in which the national...
Sober Reflections
Commerce, Public Health, and the Evolution of Alcohol Policy in Canada, 1980-2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Contributors include Susan Bondy (Toronto), Andrée Demers (Montréal), Madelyn Fournier (consultant, Montreal), Norman Giesbrecht (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, CAMH), Lynn Kavanagh (Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto), Evert Lindquist (Victoria), Bronwyn MacKenzie (CAMH), Alan Ogborne (consultant), Robin Room (Stockholm), and Gina Stoduto (CAMH).
The Republic of Games
Textual Culture between Old Books and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Many of today’s digital platforms are designed according to the same model: they encourage users to create content for fun (a mode of production that some have termed playbour) and to earn points. On Facebook, for example, points are based on a user’s number of friends and how many likes and shares...
by Martin Breum
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
The heating Arctic has become a key issue in global politics. While Canada, China, Russia, and the United States send submarines and icebreakers to militarize the North Pole, the ice itself continues to recede, creating new trade routes and new opportunities for mining gas and oil. With more Arctic...
Trade Barriers to the Public Good
Free Trade and Environmental Protection
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Trade Barriers to the Public Good provides a detailed examination of NAFTA and AIT cases involving MMT - a chemical additive brought into Canada by the US company Ethyl Corporation Inc. When the Canadian federal government banned the importation of MMT under the Fuel Additives Act, Ethyl Corp. filed...
In the Eye of the Wind
A Travel Memoir of Prewar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Relying on Ron's early memories, their mother's diary, and the acute memory of their father, who lived to be over one hundred, the Baenningers recount the initial years of their parents' marriage and provide glimpses into relations between Japan and the West from the turn of the century to the onset...
Cinephemera
Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
What do digital platforms mean for cinema studies in Canada? In an era when digital media are proliferating and thousands upon thousands of clips are available online, it seems counter-intuitive to say that audio-visual history is quickly disappearing. But the two processes are actually happening in...
Nature, Place, and Story
Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
National historic sites commemorate decisive moments in the making of Canada. But seen through an environmental lens, these sites become artifacts of a bigger story: the occupation and transformation of nature into nation. In an age of pressing discussions about environmental sustainability, there...
High Time
The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Canada has become the first G7 country to legalize cannabis, and the world is watching. The primary concern facing the Liberal government as it seeks to fulfill its 2015 campaign promise to “legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana” is whether it can be done without making the situation...
Fred Taylor
Brother in the Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Fred spent his youth trying to impress his father, while living in the shadow of his successful older brother. He eventually separated himself from family members - although never from their financial support - and turned to art and clandestine politics. Fred's Communism embarrassed E.P. and caused a...