Category: Canadian

By Jim Silver

For a rustic as prosperous as Canada, poverty is completely pointless. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is ready greater than a scarcity of cash: it's advanced and multifaceted and will profoundly harm the human spirit. on the centre of this research are Canada's neoliberal monetary regulations, that have created stipulations that make progressively more humans liable to low source of revenue, vanishing public providers and bad actual overall healthiness. Silver additionally highlights the ways that poverty is in detail hooked up to colonialism and racial and gender discrimination, and unearths that the political and monetary regulations enacted through the Canadian executive serve just a robust minority, whereas generating various unfavorable results for the remainder of us, specially the negative. Silver issues out that the prices of poverty — in relation to future health care, crime, schooling and unemployment — are greater than the prices of fixing poverty, and he lays out an...

By Teri-Lynn Janveau, Allister Thompson

ISBN-10: 1459726294

ISBN-13: 9781459726291

This booklet tells the tale of the original bond among Captain Walters and his schooner the Bluenose. The send is a Canadian icon and an icon of nautical pageant, unbeaten among 1921 and 1939 within the races for the overseas Fishermans Cup. Its luck galvanized a tender countries nationwide delight, and the send is still a major image in Nova Scotia at the present time. Walters ability and devotion to his send helped the Bluenose carry off all challengers, even on the finish of its illustrious profession. crusing for Glory additionally brings to lifestyles the risk and experience of the lifetime of a North Atlantic fisherman within the days of sail.

By Douglas Reeman

ISBN-10: 0099097605

ISBN-13: 9780099097600

February 1943. because the stability of the conflict slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into domestic port. Captain and group are exhausted after 14 months' non-stop carrier, yet for many there might be no considered depart.

If the enemy cave in in North Africa is to be exploited, each skilled guy should be wanted. Marshall needs to go back to the Mediterranean, yet this time to a really diverse form of warfare. For his new command is mystery and intensely damaging - a captured German U-boat....

By Donald Campbell Masters

ISBN-10: 1550022199

ISBN-13: 9781550022193

Henry John Cody used to be born in Embro, Ontario, on December 6, 1868. He used to be a superb guy in his day, in Toronto particularly, within the Anglican church, in academic circles (both at school and university), and within the Conservative social gathering, yet now, a few 40 years after his loss of life, he's virtually forgotten and certainly exceptional by means of someone lower than 50.

By Helen Peters

ISBN-10: 0820418617

ISBN-13: 9780820418612

This publication provides the texts of 5 performs, jointly written and played through the years 1973 to 1976 by means of the Newfoundland theatre troupe CODCO. CODCO's satiric performs divulge common perversity, lack of knowledge, prejudice and abuse with the ironic wit of the folks of Newfoundland. The performs are unique through their graveyard or gallows humour. CODCO performed a tremendous position within the evolution of Canadian theatre and is an early signifier of Canada's attainment of cultural adulthood. CODCO's present weekly tv sequence started broadcasting in 1988.

By Robert A. Young

ISBN-10: 0773518517

ISBN-13: 9780773518513

By David George Bettison

ISBN-10: 0888640080

ISBN-13: 9780888640086

ISBN-10: 1417591943

ISBN-13: 9781417591947

The 1st of a two-volume examine, this quantity features a wealth of priceless details and statistical facts from around the kingdom and examines the consequences at the provinces, specially Alberta, of a countrywide city coverage for Canada.

By Shirley W. Gray

ISBN-10: 0756500281

ISBN-13: 9780756500283

An advent to the geography, historical past, tradition, and folks of Canada.

By Eric Hoffman

ISBN-10: 1628461306

ISBN-13: 9781628461305

Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant, pen identify Seth, emerged as a cartoonist within the fertile interval of the Nineteen Eighties, while the choice comics industry boomed. although he used to be motivated through mainstream comics in his teenager years and did his earliest comics paintings on Mister X, a mainstream-style melodrama, Seth continues to be one of many least mainstream-inflected figures of the choice comics’ stream. His basic affects are underground comix, newspaper strips, and vintage cartooning.

These interviews, together with one career-spanning, definitive interview among the quantity editors and the artist released right here for the 1st time, delve into Seth’s output from its earliest days to the current. Conversations provide perception into his impacts, ideologies of comics and paintings, thematic preoccupations, and significant works, from a variety of perspectives―given Seth’s advanced and multifaceted inventive endeavours. Seth’s first photograph novel, It’s an exceptional lifestyles, should you Don’t Weaken, introduced his fascination with the earlier and with past cartooning kinds. next works extend on these preoccupations and topics. Clyde Fans, for instance, balances present-day motion opposed to narratives set some time past. The visible sort appears polished and contemplative, the narrative intentionally paced; plot turns out less significant than temper or characterization, as Seth offers with the inescapable grind of time and what it devours, issues which recur to various levels in George Sprott, Wimbledon Green, and The nice Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists.