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À l'ombre de l'Inco

Se plaçant dans une optique résolument matérialiste, l’auteur étude l’histoire socio-économique d’une communauté canadienne-française de la région de Sudbury entre 1890 et 1972. L’étude ...

Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant

By (author) Gordon Robertson
Categories: History of the Americas

Born in Saskatchewan in 1917, Gordon Robertson worked at the centre of government power from 1945 until his retirement in 1979. He worked directly with Prime Ministers King, St-Laurent, Pearson, and Trudeau, ...

Beyond Remembering

By (author) Al Purdy
Edited by Sam Solecki
Foreword by Margaret Atwood
Categories: Poetry

By the time Al Purdy succumbed to lung cancer at his waterfront home in Sidney BC on April 21, 2000, he was universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest writers Canada has produced. In five decades ...

The Boy in the Treehouse / The Girl Who Loved Her Horses

By (author) Drew Hayden Taylor
Categories: Plays, playscripts

In this collection of two plays about the process of children becoming adults, Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic and bitter-sweet magic on the denials, misunderstandings and preconceptions ...

Canada: The State of the Federation, 1999-2000

The authors begin with an examination of recent developments in the theoretical literature surrounding fiscal federalism. They then examine some of the major issues facing the federation - Is there a ...