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Elles étaient seize

By (author) Linda Kay
Categories: Media studies: journalism
Series: Champ libre

Seize journalistes canadiennes, à l’été 1904, font le voyage pour visiter la Foire universelle de Saint-Louis et fondent le Canadian Women’s Press Club. S’appuyant sur des lettres et des entrevues, ...

Une brève histoire du vice au Canada depuis 1500

By (author) Marcel Martel
Translated by Geneviève Deschamps
Categories: Cultural studies

Marcel Martel est professeur d’histoire et titulaire de la Chaire Avie Bennett Historica en histoire canadienne à l’Université York.

Investir dans le vice peut être très lucratif. Pourtant, les ...

Emergence and Empire

By (author) John Bonnett
Categories: Media studies

Harold Innis was one of the most profound thinkers that Canada ever produced. Such was his influence on the field of communication that Marshall McLuhan once declared his own work was a mere footnote ...

Shopping for Votes

By (author) Susan Delacourt
Categories: Elections and referenda

Susan Delacourt is a senior political writer with the Toronto Star, formerly of the Globe and Mail, who has been covering Canada’s capital since the 1980s. She has written three books -- United We Fall ...

Yellow Ribbons

By (author) A.L.  McCready
Categories: Popular culture
Series: The Basics

Since 2001 and the beginning of the “War on Terror,” Canadian culture has undergone a profound militarization. Moving away from previous myths of national identity centred on notions of multiculturalism ...

Alternative Trade

By (author) Gavin Fridell
Categories: International economics

Free trade does not make a significantly positive contribution to a society’s well being, nor does real free trade exist. In Alternative Trade, Gavin Fridell confronts these assumptions through a passionate ...

The Information Front

In wartime, capturing the hearts and minds of the citizenry is arguably as important as victory on the battlefield. The Information Front explores the Canadian military’s use of public relations units ...

Citizens Adrift

By (author) Paul Howe
Categories: Popular culture

Many political observers, struck by low turnout rates among young voters, are pessimistic about the future of democracy in Canada and other Western nations. Citizens in general are disengaged from politics, ...