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The 1968 Thinkers' Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism
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The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism

From: 1968 in Canada

From 13 to 15 December 1968, a meeting took place in Toronto that should be considered among the most important contributions to the birth of Canadian multiculturalism: the Thinkers’ … 29 $2.90 Add
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The “AlterNative” Frontier: Native Canadian Writing in German/y

The “AlterNative” Frontier: Native Canadian Writing in German/y

From: Translating Canada

This chapter undertakes an empirical survey of existing German Translations of Canadian First Nations literature. In addition, it explores the reciprocal influence that the image of “the … 32 $3.20 Add
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The Argument from Contingency 'Then' and 'Now'

The Argument from Contingency ‘Then’ and ‘Now’

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

The paper has two rather loosely connected parts: the first part reflects on the significance of the argument from contingency in the Five Ways of St Thomas Aquinas and raises the question of … 9 $1.08 Add
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The Art of Exclusion: The Status of Aboriginal Art in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection

The Art of Exclusion: The Status of Aboriginal Art in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

Since 1927, with the National Gallery of Canada’s colonialist exhibition titled Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art, Native and Modern, Canadian public art galleries have been grappling … ; ; 37 $3.70 Add
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The Biopolitical Production of the Common

The Biopolitical Production of the Common

From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History

This chapter shows how Marx’s framework, suitably updated, can help us better make sense of the fact that the world is becoming increasingly multicultural, in a way that allows us to deepen … 18 $2.34 Add
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The Canadian Defence Educational Establishments and Canadian Military Professionalism in RMC

The Canadian Defence Educational Establishments and Canadian Military Professionalism in RMC

From: To Serve Canada

The Department of National Defence transforms the ad hoc Officer Development Board into a permanent agency, the Canadian Defence Educational Establishments. CDEE was expected to carry out General … 17 $2.21 Add
The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century – La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle

In this collection of essays some of Canada’s foremost writers and thinkers, including John Ralston Saul and Margaret Atwood, call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and … ; 335 View
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The Canadian Military in the Security Environment of the Twenty-first Century

The Canadian Military in the Security Environment of the Twenty-first Century

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

It is difficult to guess what the future holds, but we can be certain that the faces of war and peace will change dramatically. New challenges will put greater demands on military personnel than … 14 $1.12 Add
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The Centre and the Periphery

The Centre and the Periphery

From: Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature

This chapter will focus on two main themes: the creation and development of a popular literature in the periphery (with the help of translation), and the possible relations between the popular … 62 $6.82 Add
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The Challenge of (Diagnostic) Testing: Do We Know What We Are Measuring?

The Challenge of (Diagnostic) Testing: Do We Know What We Are Measuring?

From: Language Testing Reconsidered

The language testing literature is confused about the nature of diagnostic tests. Diagnosis is a frequently used but under-problematized concept and a debate is needed that might lead to a … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Chameleon-like Complexion of Cultural Policy

The Chameleon-like Complexion of Cultural Policy

Re-educating an Octogenarian

From: Accounting for Culture

Cultural experiences have an impact on one’s general values, including diose related to politics. Thus culture affects, through one’s normative predilections, how one evaluates … 17 $2.04 Add
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The Changing Environments of Cultural Policy and Citizenship in Canada

The Changing Environments of Cultural Policy and Citizenship in Canada

From: Accounting for Culture

In this chapter, it is argued that both culture and citizenship, as well as the points where they intersect, can be shown to be heavily influenced by rapid and extensive change in their … 13 $1.56 Add
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"The Chronicles of l'Anse Saint-Roch" 1968

"The Chronicles of l’Anse Saint-Roch" 1968

From: The Quebec Anthology

In 1968, a complete edition of Perron’s stories appeared. Called simply Contes, it included the stories from the two earlier collections as well as four previously unpublished stories, one … 15 $0.90 Add
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The Coming of Age for Research on Test-Taking Strategies

The Coming of Age for Research on Test-Taking Strategies

From: Language Testing Reconsidered

In this selective look at research on test-taking strategies over the last twenty-five years, brief mention is made of the beginnings of test-taker strategy research and then important … 23 $2.30 Add
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The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada: A Case Study of Aboriginal Health

The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada: A Case Study of Aboriginal Health

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

In his final report, issued in 2002, Romanow, among other things, addressed the health status of Aboriginal people in Canada (First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples). His recommendations, and … 22 $2.20 Add
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The Contextual Turn in Learning to Translate

The Contextual Turn in Learning to Translate

From: Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation

Dictionaries and corpora remain essentially different tools. Dictionaries chase a moving target (as Sue Atkins has said), corpora get closer to this moving target, but even they are always … 12 $1.68 Add