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"Foreign Souls" 1934

From: The Quebec Anthology

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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 … 17 $1.02 Add
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"I am Canadian!:" From Beer Commercials to Medicare: In Search of Identity

From: The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

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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 … 9 $0.72 Add
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Achieving Objectives

From: Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

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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 … 5 $0.60 Add
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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

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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 … 34 $2.72 Add
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Arrival and Reception: Hungarian Refugees, 1956–1957

From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

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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 … 33 $4.29 Add
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Citizenship Politics in Canada and the Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

From: From Subjects to Citizens

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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. 16 $1.60 Add
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Immigration and "Medical Manpower"

1968 and the Awkward Introduction of Medicare in Canada

From: 1968 in Canada

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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 … 17 $1.70 Add
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In the Space between Aboriginal Sovereignty and National Security

Re-engaging Border Security and Mohawk Culture at Akwesasne

From: Borders, Culture, and Globalization

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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 … 21 $2.10 Add
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Kant’s Attack on thé Cosmological Argument

From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique

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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. 13 $1.56 Add
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Language Impoverishment

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

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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 … 29 $3.19 Add
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Man’s Inhumanity to Man

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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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 … 4 $0.40 Add
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Modernizing the ‘Indian’: Literary Constructions of the Native in Selected Novels by Thomas King

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

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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 … 24 $2.40 Add
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Polycentric Governance and Technologies of Collaboration

From: The New Geo-Governance

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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 … 25 $2.25 Add
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Sebastian Brant’s Das Narrenschiff in Early Modern England: A Textual Voyage

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

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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 … 14 $1.96 Add
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Selecting Canadiana for the Young: The German Translation of English Canadian Children’s Literature

From: Translating Canada

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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 … 24 $2.40 Add
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The Directorate of Professional Education and Development and the Rationalization of the Canadian Military Colleges

From: To Serve Canada

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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 … 19 $2.47 Add