Roger Turene
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From  NEW! First Steps on the Big StageFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines his early political and academic involvement in Manitoba’s Francophone rights movement during the mid-1960s. | Roger Turene | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! FélixFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses the journey of Félix Mayemba Nzinga, a domestic worker from Kinshasa, Zaire, who served a Canadian diplomatic family in Stockholm in the late 1980s. | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Hitting the Ground RunningFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recountshis first weeks at External Affairs in Ottawa in 1967 and 1968. | Roger Turene | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! How Far to Go Too FarFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines how in August 1981, Manitoba’s French Language Services Secretariat began operating with virtually no infrastructure, under Premier Sterling Lyon. | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! In the Jungle with Radio-CanadaFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts his experiences in Zaire, where a Radio-Canada crew filmed a forestry project in the Congo River basin. | Roger Turene | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Killing a National ParkFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene traces the 1992 political battle over siting a national park in Manitoba’s Lowlands, where Premier Sterling Lyon’s refusal and later Minister Harry … | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Life in the Heart of Darkness: KinshasaFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene paints a portrait of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tracing its suffering from Belgian colonialism through Patrice Lumumba’s assassination in 1960 to … | Roger Turene | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Life in the Heart of Enlightenment: StockholmFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene explores Swedish egalitarianism and participatory democracy based on his experiences as a Canadian diplomat stationed in Stockholm. | Roger Turene | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Little Limestone LakeFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene traces the two-decade campaign, culminating in 2011, to secure protection for Little Limestone Lake, a remarkable marl lake in northwestern Manitoba. | Roger Turene | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Lives Lived, The Globe and Mail, December 31, 1999From: Bit Player on Big Stages |
This tribute, published in the Globe and Mail on December 31, 1999, memorializes Alice Katrina Chambers, a Manitoba microbiologist and environmental advocate. | Roger Turene | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Mon pays noir sur blancFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses his experiences returning home to Manitoba after twelve years abroad. | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! My Colleague the MurdererFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines how Jeff Blackstock’s father, Canadian diplomat George Blackstock, poisoned his wife Carol in 1958, exploiting diplomatic immunity to evade prosecution. | Roger Turene | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! My Rumble in the JungleFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle, when Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire, drawing the largest television audience in history. | Roger Turene | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! Naked in the Streets of AthensFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses an inspection tour of embassies in Ankara, Athens, and Madrid in January 1981. | Roger Turene | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Negotiating a TreatyFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts a diplomatic mission in which two Canadian officers, including development officer Jacques Ouellette, negotiated a cooperation treaty with the People’s … | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! On Becoming an Environmental ActivistFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses his experiences with environmental activism in Manitoba, beginning in 1991. | Roger Turene | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
