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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From "Foreign Souls" 1934From: The Quebec Anthology |
From 1930 until her death in 1964, Marie le Franc also contributed stories and essays to many international journals, including Mercure de France, Liaison, and Garnets victoriens. Most of her … | Marie le Franc | 17 | 1997 | $1.02 Add |
From "I am Canadian!:" From Beer Commercials to Medicare: In Search of Identity |
Any attempt to find a common denominator among all Canadians in order to define the texture of our society is a very daring and risky proposal. The elusive concept of ‘political … | Monique Bégin | 9 | 2003 | $0.72 Add |
From Achieving Objectives |
The aim of this methodology is to teach a skill—translating. As has already been stressed, the translation class is above all a practical class, and yet the students have to understand the … | Allison Beeby-Lonsdale | 5 | 1996 | $0.60 Add |
From Anti-terrorism in North America: Is There Convergence or Divergence in Canadian and US Legislative Responses to 9/11 and the US-Canada Border?From: Borderlands |
This chapter underlines arguments for increasing the legislative and policy convergence that exists between Canada and the United States in the area of security, particularly border security, a … | Patrick J. Smith | 34 | 2007 | $2.72 Add |
From Arrival and Reception: Hungarian Refugees, 1956–1957 |
The government of Canada is well organized to recruit, screen, transport, and receive large numbers of immigrants. The situation was not different in the mid-1950s. In 1956, 165,000 immigrants … | Peter Hidas | 33 | 2010 | $4.29 Add |
From Citizenship Politics in Canada and the Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
This chapter is premised on the idea that Trudeau was the product of a society (Quebec and Canada) that, since the nineteen-sixties, tended to adopt more explicitly the American approach to rights. | Linda Cardinal | 16 | 2004 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Immigration and "Medical Manpower"1968 and the Awkward Introduction of Medicare in Canada From: 1968 in Canada |
The year 1968 witnessed the launch of medicare, a public program so important that 50 years later many Canadians identify universal health insurance as a defining feature of our national … | David Wright and Sasha Mullally | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
From NEW! In the Space between Aboriginal Sovereignty and National SecurityRe-engaging Border Security and Mohawk Culture at Akwesasne |
This chapter considers the contributions of local leaders and communities to the ways that borderlands become “secured,” not only in the literal sense of security measures but also in … | Laetitia Rouvière | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
From Kant’s Attack on thé Cosmological ArgumentFrom: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique |
In his book Approaches to God Jacques Maintain states in passing that Kant’s attack on thé ontological argument is solid, but that his réfutation of cosmological arguments is not. | J.L.A. West | 13 | 1999 | $1.56 Add |
From Language Impoverishment |
As a result of decades of the attenuation of the erotic, the literary sexual and intimate language became impoverished and supplied clichéd “pseudo-scientific” or “pulp … | Nitsa Ben-Ari | 29 | 2006 | $3.19 Add |
From Man’s Inhumanity to Man |
I have been in this prison for nine years now, but something that I cannot forget until they put me inside a grave took place on May 20, 1995. On that fateful day there was a slaughter like I … | Sylvester Monday Anagaba | 4 | 2008 | $0.40 Add |
From Modernizing the ‘Indian’: Literary Constructions of the Native in Selected Novels by Thomas King |
In order to demonstrate the extent to which the literary construction of the Native in King’s work has helped to break up stereotypes and indeed to create a new literary image of the … | Rü | 24 | 2008 | $2.40 Add |
From Polycentric Governance and Technologies of CollaborationFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
Oceans form a complex, adaptive socio-technical system requiring a certain kind of sustainable governance regime for its effective stewardship. The "right kind" of regime will be one … | Gilles Paquet | 25 | 2005 | $2.25 Add |
From Sebastian Brant’s Das Narrenschiff in Early Modern England: A Textual Voyage |
One of the most popular works of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It is a biting satire of human morals and activities comprising a series of chapters displaying various sins and … | Brenda M. Hosington | 14 | 2006 | $1.96 Add |
From Selecting Canadiana for the Young: The German Translation of English Canadian Children’s LiteratureFrom: Translating Canada |
The following analytical overview of the twentieth century shows that the highly successful translation of English-language Canadian children’s literature into German has been structured … | Martina Seifert | 24 | 2007 | $2.40 Add |
From The Directorate of Professional Education and Development and the Rationalization of the Canadian Military CollegesFrom: To Serve Canada |
The Canadian Defence Educational Establishment office having already been quietly disbanded during the preceding year, a Directorate of Professional Education and Development (DPED) would take … | Richard Preston | 19 | 1991 | $2.47 Add |