Roger Turene
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From  NEW! A National Park Struggles to Be BornFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene traces the decades-long effort to establish a national park in Manitoba’s Lowlands, spanning the early 1990s through the early 2020s. | Roger Turene | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! A Stillborn Editorial CareerFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines his experiences as co-editor of International Perspectives, a new foreign policy magazine. | Roger Turene | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! A Thwarted AssassinationFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses how, n 1973, during a Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Ottawa, a plot by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to assassinate acting Foreign Minister Paul Etiang … | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Angola: Stillbirth of a NationFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts Angola’s dramatic independence in 1975, following Portugal’s Carnation Revolution of 1974. | Roger Turene | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! At the Top of One’s Game … and Fed UpFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses his final year in Stockholm. | Roger Turene | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Authenticité and ZairianisationFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines Mobutu’s nationalist policies in Zaire, beginning with Authenticité in 1973, which renamed cities and citizens, and the more destructive … | Roger Turene | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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NEW! Bit Player on Big StagesA Journey Through Diplomacy, Advocacy, and Cultural Survival |
From the heart of small-town Saint-Pierre-Jolys to the global corridors of diplomacy, Bit Player on Big Stages chronicles Roger Turenne’s extraordinary journey of public service, cultural … | Roger Turene | 492 | 2025 | View |
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From NEW! Blue WildernessFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene traces the 1992 to 1994 campaign to establish a national park at Little Limestone Lake and Long Point in Manitoba’s northern Interlake. | Roger Turene | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Clandestine Gatherings and Charging GorillasFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts a series of extraordinary encounters in eastern Zaire during the 1970s, when Mobutu’s state policies upended daily life. | Roger Turene | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Confronting ApartheidFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene describes a personal encounter with apartheid in South Africa, where racial segregation permeated daily life. | Roger Turene | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Consequential SummersFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter,Turene discusses two transformative summer jobs he held in Winnipeg during 1963 and 1965: guiding tourists through the Manitoba Legislative Building under Premier Roblin, and … | Roger Turene | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Crisis, Part IFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene traces the political crisis that erupted in Manitoba in May 1985 when Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau inadvertently disclosed a government agreement on official … | Roger Turene | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Crisis, Part IIFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts the 1983 Manitoba constitutional crisis over French language rights, pitting Premier Pawley’s NDP government against the Conservatives and drawing federal … | Roger Turene | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Dealing with a New Reality: The Tories Return to PowerFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines the 1988 Manitoba election aftermath, when the Progressive Conservatives, led by Gary Filmon, returned to power as a minority government following a Liberal surge. | Roger Turene | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Discovering CanadaFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines his reassigment to the Personnel Operations Division in Ottawa in 1969, where he secures a UNESCO posting in Paris. | Roger Turene | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Endangered Spaces and the Art of GreenwashFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines the Endangered Spaces Campaign, a ten-year World Wildlife Fund effort to establish protected areas across Canada, focusing on Manitoba during the Filmon administration. | Roger Turene | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
