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Canada (romans)Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Santé et médecine, Médecine
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Activist Maude Barlow traces the history of medicare in Canada, which began in 1966. She compares it with both public…
and private systems in other parts of the world, and describes the proponents of privatization in Canada. Barlow argues against the notion that medicare is a luxury that Canadians can no longer afford. 2002.
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Canada (romans)Biographies, Guerre et militaire (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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Major-General Lewis MacKenzie is the best-known Canadian soldier since the Second World War. In this memoir, he relates how he…
created Sector Sarajevo, and with a 30-nation UN force set out to liberate the airport to receive desperately needed food and medical supplies. MacKenzie became an international celebrity as he used the media -- "the only weapon I had" -- to maximum advantage. He also recounts the highlights of eight previous peacekeeping tours in the Middle East, Cyprus, and Vietnam. 1993.
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Canada (romans)Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Littérature, Essais
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Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick provides commentary on one hundred and sixty diverse subjects, including Things That Make You…
Appreciate Men, Poetic Subjects, Hateful Things, Adorable Things, Things That Fall from the Sky, and Different Ways of Speaking. An itemized collection of essays, short lists, long lists, comforts, toxicities, things you should be ashamed to laugh at but do anyway, and many small privacies. Includes essays about such topics as the quirks of German cannibalism, the weirdness of all workplaces, and the advantages of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Some descriptions of violence and explicit strong language. 2004.
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Canada (romans)Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Essais et documents généraux
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Mansbridge collects his favourite interviews from the past ten years, book-ending each with his behind-the-scenes recollections and anecdotes. Mansbridge provides…
the inside story of prominent figures from all walks of life, including world leaders, music legends and sports heroes. 2010.
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Canada (romans)Affaires et économie, Économie, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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Most of the writing on global warming is by scientists, academics, environmentalists, and journalists. Kevin Taft, a former leader of…
the opposition in Alberta, brings a fresh perspective through the insight he gained as an elected politician who had an insider's eyewitness view of the role of the oil industry. His answer, in brief: The oil industry has captured key democratic institutions in both Alberta and Ottawa. Taft begins his book with a perceptive observer's account of a recent court case in Ottawa which laid bare the tactics and techniques of the industry, its insiders and lobbyists. He casts dramatic new light on exactly how corporate lobbyists, politicians, bureaucrats, universities, and other organizations are working together to pursue the oil industry's agenda. He offers a brisk tour of the recent work of scholars who have developed the concepts of the deep state and institutional capture to understand how one rich industry can override the public interest. Taft views global warming and weakened democracy as two symptoms of the same problem--the loss of democratic institutions to corporate influence and control. He sees citizen engagement and direct action by the public as the only response that can unravel big oil's deep state. 2017.
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Canada (romans)Biographies, Familles (biographies), Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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British Captain Samuel Lewis, a merchant seaman and the author's grandfather, arrived in China in the 1930s. He married a…
Japanese woman and started a family in Pagoda Anchorage, the heart of the Chinese tea trade. Describes how Lewis and his family, later forced to leave the country, viewed events of the 19th century. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.
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Canada (romans)Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Histoire, Peuples autochtones (histoire)
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A comprehensive overview of all the native groups of Canada -- Indian, Metis and Inuit. Describes their traditional ways of…
life from prehistoric times to the present issues of land claims and self-government. 1988.
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Canada (romans), Oeuvres littéraires (romans)Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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Matthew Goderich is driving up to the lake for a possible reunion with Edie, from whom he has been separated…
for thirty years. Then it happens - he has a stroke. This novel takes the reader through the pain, the delusions, and the sudden interior crisis Matt experiences during this "cerebrovascular accident" and his twenty-eight hour stream-of-consciousness before death. 2000. (The new age ; 12)
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Canada (romans)Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Littérature, Poésie
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This book contains the writer's thoughts, fears, giggles, precise conclusions, and impressions--an intelligent interview with an intelligent person done by that person herself. Some strong language. 1983.
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Canada (romans)Biographies, Familles (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival, but for 14 year old Helen, the battle is with…
her parents: to be allowed to lead her own life, after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling while she cared for her six younger siblings. She struggles against illness, caused by severe malnutrition and dirt, and the selfish demands of her parents, with amazing courage and perseverance. Sequel to "By the waters of Liverpool" (DC29720), followed by "Lime Street at two" (DC29719). 1979. (Autobiography ; 3)
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Canada (romans)Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Littérature, Anthologies
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What keeps us together? What breaks us apart? 27 creative nonfiction writers and 15 poets explore the enormity of marriage…
and committed relationships and how they have challenged, shaped, supported and changed them. The stories and poems in this collection delve deep into the mysteries of long-term bonds. The authors cover a gamut of issues and ideas--everything from everyday conflicts to deep philosophical divides, as well as jealousy, adultery, physical or mental illness, and loss. There's happiness here too, along with love and companionship, whether the long-term partnering is monogamous, polyamorous, same-sex or otherwise. From surprise proposals, stolen quickies, and snoring to arranged marriage, affairs, suicide, and much more, these wide-ranging personal stories and poems are sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always engaging as they offer their intimate and varied insights into the complex state that is marriage. 2018.
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Canada (romans)Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Littérature, Drame
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Assembled to paste up a million green stamps, fourteen working-class women gossip, joke, rail against their fate and finally violently unleash their rages and frustrations. Uniform title: Belles-soeurs.
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Canada (romans)Essais et documents primés, Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Littérature, Poésie
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Brand writes about Canada as it is seen by an outsider and about the outsiders who have come here over…
and settled over the years, uncomfortable with the land and its people, uncomfortable sometimes with themselves. Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English poetry.
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Canada (romans)Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Littérature (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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Cariou's memoir on growing up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the…
town's Cree and Métis populations by the European settlers. While he has absorbed these prejudices as his own, he is forced to confront the politics of race as an adult. Then, he discovers secrets that his family had kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever his sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. Winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize of the 2003 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards. 2002.
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Canada (romans)Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Peuples autochtones, Peuples autochtones au Canada
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When residential schools opened in the 1830's, First Nations envisioned their children learning in nurturing environments, staffed with their own…
teachers, ministers and interpreters. Instead, students were taught by outsiders, regularly forced to renounce their cultures and languages, and some were subjected to abuse that left emotional scars for generations. Fourteen Aboriginal women who attended these schools reflect on their experiences, describing how they overcame tremendous obstacles to become strong and independent members of Aboriginal cultures. 2004.
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Canada (romans), Guerre (romans)Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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The word "itsuka" means "some day," and refers to the Japanese-Canadian fight for redress following their evacuation and internment by…
the government during World War II. Naomi recalls how her idyllic childhood in British Columbia was ended; and after the death of her gentle guardians, Naomi is persuaded to leave the prairies and move to Toronto with her activist Aunt Emily. Thrust into the redress movement, Naomi becomes involved in the political battle, and in a romance with fellow activist Cedric, an Anglican priest. Sequel to "Obasan" (DC03222). 1993, c1992.
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Canada (romans)Biographies, Familles (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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On August 28, 1922, thousands of Dubliners came to pay respects to Michael Collins, the martyred Irish revolutionary, while elsewhere…
in the same city on the same afternoon, Michael Lyons, a cooper who worked for Guinness and author Jarman's grandfather, inexplicably drowned in the Grand Canal. These events became the seed for this combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, which relates the events of author Jarman's visits to Ireland, his family's past, and Ireland's bloody political history. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002.
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Canada (romans)Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Littérature, Poésie
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Award-winning Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's third collection is a long poem about racism and the representation of indigenous peoples. Composed…
of text found in western novels published between 1840 and 1950 - the heyday of pulp publishing and a period of unfettered colonialism in North America – he uses erasure, pastiche, and a focused poetics to create a visually striking response to the western genre. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.
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Canada (romans)Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Peuples autochtones, Peuples autochtones au Canada
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The authors provide a view of broken treaty promises, the racist Indian Act, and the failure of Canada's justice and…
education systems. While examining many challenges confronting native people today, the authors also anticipate a brighter future. 1993.
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Canada (romans)Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Histoire, Asie (histoire)
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Born in Hong Kong in 1909, the author has witnessed the three modern eras of Chinese history: the final days…
of the Imperial Ching dynasty; the republican rule of Chiang Kai-Shek; and Communist rule since 1949. She describes the people, culture, and history of China as she experienced them. 1990.