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A Chance Encounter

A Chance Encounter

From: Fighting For Space

This chapter retraces the early years of activists Liz Evans and Mark Townsend. Also the inception of The Portland Hotel at Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which later evolved into PHS Community … 22 $0.44 Add
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A Digression

A Digression

Elsewhere in the World

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Culture and media policies adopted by New Zealand and South Korea at the time of trade negotiations between Canada and the United States offer a contrasting example to Canadian policies.. 5 $0.50 Add
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Afterword

Afterword

The End of the Journey

From: At Home

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Afterword to the Second Edition

Afterword to the Second Edition

From: The Imaginary Indian

Daniel Francis brings the readers up to date with the developments in the white-Aboriginal relations in the thirty years since he first penned this book in 1991. 34 $3.40 Add
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Afterword to the Second Edition

From: The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition

Daniel Francis brings the readers up to date with the developments in the white-Aboriginal relations in the thirty years since he first penned this book in 1991. 34 $1.02 Add
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Ancestral Connections

Ancestral Connections

From: At Home

Chapter 4 is an interview with Tanya Harnett. The chapter focuses on how a sense of home for Indigenous artists can be inextricably tied to the collective, ancient, and cross-generational history … 11 $1.10 Add
At Home

At Home

Talks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice

In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and … 232 View
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Back to the Senses

Back to the Senses

From: At Home

Chapter 13 features interviews with Annie Martin, Emiliano Sepulveda, and Michael Fernandes. This chapter focuses on artists who use their senses to make connections and find belonging anywhere, … 15 $1.50 Add
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Between Canadians and Culture
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Between Canadians and Culture

The First Year of the CRTC

From: 1968 in Canada

This chapter considers the first year of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission, the country’s broadcasting (and eventually, telecommunications) regulator. The establishment of the CRTC … 19 $1.90 Add
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Buller Men and Batty Bwoys:

Buller Men and Batty Bwoys:

Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Black Communities

From: In a Queer Country

In this essay, Wesley Crichlow considers the various dynamics of closeting for black gay men from two cities and from a number of ethnicities. It is an example of contemporary developments in … 21 $0.42 Add
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Can You See the Difference?:

Can You See the Difference?:

Queerying the Nation, Ethnicity, Festival, and Culture in Winnipeg

From: In a Queer Country

Pauline Greenhill’s contributor’s biography reflects her subject position, unusual in this volume—what her essay describes as "token female heterosexual anthropological … 24 $0.48 Add
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Canada and Free Trade with the United States

Canada and Free Trade with the United States

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Summarizes Canada’s trade history with the United States and explains how Canadian culture is impacted by America’s. Reviews Canada’s trade agreements with the United States … 22 $2.20 Add
Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life

Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign … 256 View
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Challenging Canadian and Queer Nationalisms

Challenging Canadian and Queer Nationalisms

From: In a Queer Country

In "Challenging Canadian and Queer Nationalisms," Gary Kinsman takes issue with the very idea of the conference, that there could be a specific relationship between gays and lesbians … 31 $0.93 Add
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Conclusion

Conclusion

From: Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel

In the Conclusion, the authors reflect on the legacy of Mother Joseph and Louise Bethune work more than 100 years after their deaths. The chapter explores how these women were able to storm the … ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Conclusion

Conclusion

History in an Age of Anxiety

From: National Dreams

Many Canadians are afflicted by perseveration of memory. They repeat the familiar myths of our history even as they must know that they no longer explain much about us. History is a … 29 $0.58 Add