Arts & Culture
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From  A Chance EncounterFrom: 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 … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
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From  Canada and Free Trade with the United States |
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 … | Garry Neil | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 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  Mythical LandscapesFrom: At Home |
Chapter 3 is an interview with Amalie Atkins. This chapter focuses on how childhood landscapes can be a powerful trigger for creativity, even if one does not continue to reside there. | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Talking Forbidden Love:An Interview with Lynne Fernie From: In a Queer Country |
Lynne Fernie, co-director with Aerlynn Weisman of the documentary, Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives emphasizes in the interview that the film was intended as a multiple … | Terry Goldie | 25 | 2001 | $0.50 Add |
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From  The Sister with a HammerPart III |
Part three of Sister with a Hammer focuses on the life of Mother Joseph (born Esther Pariseau) a catholic nun who is representative of the nameless pioneer women who helped to build nineteenth … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 24 | 2014 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! War is Over |
This chapter discusses the anti war movement in Canada, the impact that John and Yoko had on the movement in Canada. | Greg Marquis | 42 | 2020 | $4.20 Add |
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From  Writing Off the Indian |
In this chapter, the author dispassionately examines the early “image makers”—the writers who travelled through Native nations to give first-hand account of the Native Peoples. … | Daniel Francis | 39 | 1992 | $1.17 Add |
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From  Writing Off the IndianFrom: The Imaginary Indian |
In this chapter, the author dispassionately examines the early “image makers”—the writers who travelled through Native nations to give first-hand account of the Native Peoples. … | Daniel Francis | 39 | 1992 | $3.90 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 Ancestral ConnectionsFrom: 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 … | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |
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From 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 … | Wesley Crichlow | 21 | 2001 | $0.42 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 Hotel of Last ResortFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1993, Liz Evans and Mark Townsend were trying to secure housing for some of the neighbourhood’s most difficult tenants. A community ravaged by drug abuse and disease that every level of … | Travis Lupick | 34 | 2017 | $1.02 Add |
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From Red Coats and Redskins.From: The Imaginary Indian |
The romance of the Mountie Police comes dressed as an adventure story, an adventure in nation-building, but it is far more than that. Like all treasured national stories, myths if you prefer, it … | Daniel Francis | 45 | 1992 | $4.50 Add |
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From Red Coats and Redskins. |
The romance of the Mountie Police comes dressed as an adventure story, an adventure in nation-building, but it is far more than that. Like all treasured national stories, myths if you prefer, it … | Daniel Francis | 45 | 1992 | $1.80 Add |
