Arts & Culture
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From  ConclusionHistory 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 … | Daniel Frances | 29 | 1997 | $0.58 Add |
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From  NEW! Conclusion |
Conclusion | Greg Marquis | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Creating ConnectionsFrom: At Home |
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 |
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From  Creating the GardenFrom: The Tangled Garden |
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 |
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From  NEW! Cultural Sovereignty: The Challenging Gap |
In this chapter, Stursberg traces the gradual erosion of Canada’s cultural sovereignty from the post-World War II era through 2025. He examines policies like the Massey Commission, the … | Richard Stursberg | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From Distant PlacesFrom: At Home |
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 |
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From Expanding the GardenThe Mulroney Years From: The Tangled Garden |
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 |
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From  Expansion of Free Trade and Investment Agreements |
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 |
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From  Fairy Tales of Two Cities:or Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s) From: In a Queer Country |
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 |
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From Family as a Site of Contestation:Queering the Normal or Normalizing the Queer? From: In a Queer Country |
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 SpaceHow a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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From "Free Trade" Limits Cultural Policymaking |
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 |
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From NEW! From Peace Festival to Strawberry Fields |
This chapter discusses the Strawberry Fields music festival that was held in the summer of 1967 | Greg Marquis | 43 | 2020 | $4.30 Add |
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From Global Cultural Diversity Movement and the UNESCO Convention |
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 |
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From Global Free Trade – From Goods to Services |
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 |
