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Book The Life and Letters of Sir Wilfred Laurier

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Sir Wilfred Laurier written by Oscar Douglas Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Power of the Pen

Download or read book The Power of the Pen written by Richard Clippingdale and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-08-18 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably, Sir John Willison had more influence on the evolution of Canada’s emerging nationalism and public policy shifts than any other journalist had in his time or since. Sir John Willison (1856-1927) was the most influential Canadian journalist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries while the country achieved economic growth, intellectual maturation, and world status. With his incisive pen and clear reasoning, Willison utilized Toronto’s Globe and News, his Times of London contributions, his many books and speeches, and his unparalleled connections with key political leaders to establish himself as a major national figure. Uniquely, Willison was at the heart of both the Liberal and Conservative Parties as a devoted supporter and good friend of Sir Wilfrid Laurier; a first employer, early booster, and continual admirer of William Lyon Mackenzie King; and a close ally of Sir Robert Borden. Willison was a major player in the epochal federal political shifts of 1896, 1911, and 1917 and articulated highly influential views on the nature and evolution of Canadian nationalism and public policy.

Book Statesmen  Strategists  and Diplomats

Download or read book Statesmen Strategists and Diplomats written by Patrice Dutil and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign policy is a tricky business. Typically, challenges and proposed solutions are perceived as disparate unless a leader can amass enough support for an idea that creates alignment. And because the prime minister is typically the one proposing that idea, Canadian foreign policy can be analyzed through the actions of these leaders. Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats explores how prime ministers from Sir John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau have shaped foreign policy by manipulating government structures, adopting and rejecting options, and imprinting their personalities on the process. Contributors consider the impact of a wide range of policy decisions – increasing or decreasing department budgets, forming or ending alliances, and pursuing trade relationships – particularly as these choices affected the bureaucracies that deliver foreign policy diplomatically and militarily. This innovative focus is destined to trigger a new appreciation for the formidable personal attention and acuity involved in a successful approach to external affairs.

Book British Comment on the United States

Download or read book British Comment on the United States written by Ada Nisbet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.

Book OLR Index

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book OLR Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Download or read book Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier written by Oscar Douglas Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Download or read book The Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by William Stewart Wallace and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1926 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arts of Engagement

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dylan Robinson
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Release : 2016-07-15
  • ISBN : 1771121718
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Arts of Engagement written by Dylan Robinson and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. Using the framework of “aesthetic action,” the essays expand the frame of aesthetics to include visual, aural, and kinetic sensory experience, and question the ways in which key components of reconciliation such as apology and witnessing have social and political effects for residential school survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics. This volume makes an important contribution to the discourse on reconciliation in Canada by examining how aesthetic and sensory interventions offer alternative forms of political action and healing. These forms of aesthetic action encompass both sensory appeals to empathize and invitations to join together in alliance and new relationships as well as refusals to follow the normative scripts of reconciliation. Such refusals are important in their assertion of new terms for conciliation, terms that resist the imperatives of reconciliation as a form of resolution. This collection charts new ground by detailing the aesthetic grammars of reconciliation and conciliation. The authors document the efficacies of the TRC for the various Indigenous and settler publics it has addressed, and consider the future aesthetic actions that must be taken in order to move beyond what many have identified as the TRC’s political limitations.

Book The Platform Economy and the Smart City

Download or read book The Platform Economy and the Smart City written by Austin Zwick and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies. From reactive policymaking in response to platform economy firms to proactive policymaking in an effort to develop into smart cities, urban governance is transforming at an unprecedented speed and scale. Innovative technologies promise a brave new world of convenience and cost effectiveness – powered by cameras that monitor our movements, sensors that line our streets, and algorithms that determine our resource allocation – but at what cost? Exploring the relationship between technology and cities, this book brings together an outstanding group of authors in the field to provide a critical and necessary examination of the disruption that is under way. They look at how cities should understand and regulate novel technologies, what can be learned from proposed and failed smart city projects, and how innovative economies change the structure of cities themselves. Contributors dig deeply into these and similar subjects, contributing their voices to an important dialogue on the future of urban policy and governance. The first collection of its kind, this groundbreaking volume brings together social, economic, and cultural insights to enhance our understanding of the ongoing technological upheaval in cities around the world.

Book Settling and Unsettling Memories

Download or read book Settling and Unsettling Memories written by Nicole Neatby and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings them up-to-date on the latest advances in the field. With increasing debates surrounding how societies should publicly commemorate events and people, Settling and Unsettling Memories helps readers appreciate the challenges inherent in presenting the past. Prominent and emerging scholars explore the ways in which Canadian memory has been put into action across a variety of communities, regions, and time periods. Through high-quality essays touching on the central questions of historical consciousness and collective memory, this collection makes a significant contribution to a rapidly growing field.

Book Ontario Library Review

Download or read book Ontario Library Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supplement to The Life and Letters of the Rt  Hon  Sir Charles Tupper  Bart   G C M G

Download or read book Supplement to The Life and Letters of the Rt Hon Sir Charles Tupper Bart G C M G written by Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada s Origins

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Ajzenstat
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1995-11-15
  • ISBN : 0773580425
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Canada s Origins written by Janet Ajzenstat and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-11-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article in which the red tory view was formulated. It then presents a new and illuminating picture of Canadian political life, in which liberal individualism confronts not toryism but the participatory tradition of civic republicanism. In the final section the two editors, one a liberal, the other a civic republican, debate the crucial questions dominating Canadian politics today-including Quebec's search for recognition-from the perspective of their shared understanding of Canada's founding.

Book The Social History of Ideas in Quebec  1760 1896

Download or read book The Social History of Ideas in Quebec 1760 1896 written by Yvan Lamonde and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.

Book Canadian History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reginald George Trotter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Canadian History written by Reginald George Trotter and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian History For Dummies

Download or read book Canadian History For Dummies written by Will Ferguson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated! This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous native cultures and early French and British settlements through Paul Martin's shaky minority government. This timely update features all the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical and archeological research. In his trademark irreverent style, Will Ferguson celebrates Canada's double-gold in hockey at the 2002 Olympics, investigates Jean Chrétien's decision not to participate in the war in Iraq, and dissects the recent sponsorship scandal.

Book The Emergence of Social Security in Canada

Download or read book The Emergence of Social Security in Canada written by Dennis T. Guest and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emergence of Social Security in Canada has become a standard text in social work and related courses in post-secondary institutions across Canada. It is the first and most detailed history of Canadian social security from colonial times to the present. This book analyzes the major influences shaping the Canadian welfare state. A central trend in Canadian social security over most of the twentieth century has been a shift from a “residual” to an “institutional” concept. The residual approach, which dominated until the Second World War, posited that the causes of poverty and joblessness were to be found within individuals and were best remedied by personal initiative and reliance on the private market. However, the dramatic changes brought about by the Great Depression and the Second World War resulted in the rise of an institutional approach to social security. Poverty and joblessness began to be viewed as the results of systemic failure, and the public began to demand that governments take action to establish front-rank institutions guaranteeing a level of protection against the common risks to livelihood. Thus, the foundations of the Canadian welfare state were established. The Emergence of Social Security in Canada is both an important historical resource and an engrossing tale in its own right, and it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about Canadian social policy.