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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Conclusion From: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool View James Lorimer and Company	Conclusion	Greg Marquis	11	2020	$1.10 Add
From Creating Connections From: At Home View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 12 features interviews with François Morelli, Tedi Tafel, Devora Neumark, and Sharon Alward. The focus of the chapter is on artists who find home and belonging not in a physical …	Lezli Rubin-Kunda	26	2018	$2.60 Add
From Creating the Garden From: The Tangled Garden View James Lorimer and Company	Provides a history of Canadian legislation and policy which protected domestic television, radio and other media. Summarizes developments 1920s to 1980s.	Richard Stursberg	19	2019	$1.90 Add
From Distant Places From: At Home View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 10 features interviews with Lorraine Field, Catherine Bodmer, and Josée Pedneault. This chapter focuses on artists who travel for the subjects of their art, but whose “home …	Lezli Rubin-Kunda	20	2018	$2.00 Add
From Expanding the Garden The Mulroney Years From: The Tangled Garden View James Lorimer and Company	A first‑hand account of the development of Canadian culture policy by the Brian Mulroney’s Conservative government (1984 to 1993). Focuses specifically on initiatives by former …	Richard Stursberg	38	2019	$3.80 Add
From Expansion of Free Trade and Investment Agreements From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World View James Lorimer and Company	How recent expansion of Canada’s free trade agreements and the implementation of investment agreements have affected Canadian cultural policy. Deals with the Multilateral Agreement on …	Garry Neil	15	2019	$1.50 Add
From Fairy Tales of Two Cities: or Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s) From: In a Queer Country View Arsenal Pulp Press	Thomas Waugh’s "Fairy Tales of Two Cities: Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s)" considers examples from a past when Canadian cinema in general was defining itself, in response to …	Thomas Waugh	26	2001	$0.52 Add
From Family as a Site of Contestation: Queering the Normal or Normalizing the Queer? From: In a Queer Country View Arsenal Pulp Press	Michelle K. Owen’s essay looks at what recently has become the most prominent aspect of this struggle for recognition. Owen ‘s response is informed and polemical; a scholarship that …	Michelle K. Owen	22	2001	$0.44 Add
Fighting For Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Arsenal Pulp Press	North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of …	Travis Lupick	408	2017	View
From NEW! "Flowers have been getting a lot of publicity this year" 1968 and David Helwig's "Something for Olivia's Scrapbook I Guess" From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	In 1968, Robert Weaver’s edited anthology Canadian Short Stories: Second Series was published, including stories by well-known writers such as Hugh Garner and Morley Callaghan and …	Will Smith	16	2021	$1.60 Add
From "Free Trade" Limits Cultural Policymaking From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World View James Lorimer and Company	Focuses on how free trade agreements impacted Canadian cultural policy. Deals with the 1984 free trade deal, NAFTA, as well as how World Trade Organization agreements (WTO) have limited …	Garry Neil	31	2019	$3.10 Add
From NEW! From Peace Festival to Strawberry Fields From: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the Strawberry Fields music festival that was held in the summer of 1967	Greg Marquis	43	2020	$4.30 Add
From Global Cultural Diversity Movement and the UNESCO Convention From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World View James Lorimer and Company	Describes the pushback to trade agreement impacts on culture internationally, and describes the creation of the UNESCO Convention (1970) and assesses the impact it has had on Canadian and global …	Garry Neil	19	2019	$1.90 Add
From Global Free Trade – From Goods to Services From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World View James Lorimer and Company	Trade agreements and the development of global trade through the second half of the 20th century. Analyzes how global trade agreements in that period affected Canada’s culture industry, …	Garry Neil	15	2019	$1.50 Add
From Great White Hope The Myth of North From: National Dreams View Arsenal Pulp Press	There have been writers, politicians, intellectuals who believed that it was its northernness which made Canada distinct. The "cult of the North" gained coherent expression for the …	Daniel Frances	46	1997	$1.84 Add
From Having a Gay Old Time in Paris: John Glassco's Not-50-Queer Adventures From: In a Queer Country View Arsenal Pulp Press	It is a common concern in literary studies of homosexuality to ascertain the sexuality of the author, but Glassco’s autobiographical Memoirs of Montparnasse presents a special case. Much …	Andrew Lesk	18	2001	$0.18 Add