Canadian nonfiction

  • Genre, patrimoine et droit civil : les femmes mariées de la bourgeoisie québécoise en procès, 1900-1930

    Creator

    Nootens, Thierry

    Abstract

    Belles résidences, domestiques, voyages... la vie des dames de la bourgeoisie, au début du 20e siècle, n'avait rien à voir avec le quotidien des ménagères de milieu populaire. Ces femmes n'étaient pas totalement à l'abri, néanmoins. Dans Genre, patrimoine et droit civil, Thierry Nootens examine les épreuves traversées par plusieurs dizaines d'entre elles. Faillites, malversations du mari ou ruptures pouvaient menacer leur aisance.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    MQUP

    Non spécifié
  • Power shift : the longest revolution

    Creator

    Armstrong, Sally

    Abstract

    The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise of equality still eludes half the world's population. In her 2019 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong illustrates how the status of the female half of humanity is crucial to our collective surviving and thriving.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    House of Anansi Press Inc

    Non spécifié
  • La Confédération, 1864-1999 : nouvelles perspectives

    Abstract

    Plusieurs croient que le 1er juillet 1867 représente la date de la Confédération canadienne, le jour de la création du nouveau pays. Mais le processus ne faisait que s'amorcer en 1867. Du petit dominion aux frontières restreintes, le pays est devenu une fédération beaucoup plus grande, avec dix provinces, trois territoires, et des centaines de communautés autochtones. Les politiciens ont longtemps débattu le concept de pays; ils ont bien pesé les avantages et les inconvénients d'une adhésion à la Confédération canadienne.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Calgary

    University of Calgary Press

    Non spécifié
  • Privacy in peril : Hunter v Southam and the drift from reasonable search protections

    Creator

    Ireland, David

    Jochelson, Richard

    Abstract

    In 1984, the Supreme Court of Canada, in Hunter v Southam, declared warrantless searches unreasonable under section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Police would henceforth require authorization based on "reasonable and probable grounds." The decision promised to protect individuals from state power, but as Richard Jochelson and David Ireland argue, post-Hunter search and seizure law took a turn away from the landmark decision.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    UBC Press

    Non spécifié
  • Great Bear rainforest : a giant-screen adventure in the land of the spirit bear

    Creator

    McAllister, Ian

    Van Tol, Alex

    Abstract

    In the northwest corner of British Columbia, between the Alaska-BC border and the northern tip of Vancouver Island, lies a land of forest green and sparkling blue. From massive whales to tiny herring, spirit bears to sea wolves, an incredibly diverse array of wildlife calls this land home. Part of the largest coastal temperate rainforest in the world, the Great Bear Rainforest is one the last untouched places on Earth. Experience this magical place through the power of IMAX® and the giant screen.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Victoria

    Orca Book Publishers

    Non spécifié
  • What's trending in Canadian politics? : understanding transformations in power, media, and the public sphere

    Creator

    Crandall, Erin

    Lalancette, Mireille

    Raynauld, Vincent

    Abstract

    What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? What's Trending in Canadian Politics? examines political communication and democratic governance in a digital age. Exploring the effects of conventional and emerging political communication practices in Canada, contributors investigate the uses of digital media for political communication, grassroots-driven protest, public behaviour prediction, and relationships between members of civil society and the political establishment.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    UBC Press

    Non spécifié
  • Weinzweig : essays on his life and music

    Creator

    Beckwith, John

    Cherney, Brian

    Abstract

    John Weinzweig (1913-2006) was the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation. Influenced by European modernists such as Stravinsky, Berg, and Webern, he was the first Canadian composer to employ serialism, thereby bringing a spirit of innovation to mid-twentieth-century Canadian music. A forceful advocate for modern Canadian composition, Weinzweig played a key role in the founding of the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre during a buoyant and expansive period for the arts in Canada.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Waterloo, ON

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press

    Non spécifié
  • First Nations? second thoughts : 3rd edition

    Creator

    Flanagan, Tom

    Abstract

    Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the inherent right to self-government, collective property rights, immunity from taxation, hunting and fishing rights without legal limits, and free housing, education, and medical care.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    MQUP

    Non spécifié
  • For home and empire : voluntary mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War

    Creator

    Marti, Steve

    Abstract

    For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization on the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. Steve Marti shows that collective acts of patriotism strengthened communal bonds, while reinforcing class, race, and gender boundaries. Which jurisdiction should provide for a soldier's wife if she moved from Hobart to northern Tasmania? Should Welsh women in Vancouver purchase comforts for hometown soldiers or Welsh ones? Should Māori enlist with a local or an Indigenous battalion?

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    UBC Press

    Non spécifié
  • My Basilian priesthood : 1961 to 1967

    Creator

    Haberman, Arthur

    Quealey, Michael

    Rehner, Jan

    Abstract

    My Basilian Priesthood is a memoir of Michael Quealey's six years in the order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged in reforming the mass and in other theological matters. The 1960s was a time of questioning traditions, including the role of Biblical criticism, the nature of liturgy, the place of women in the Church and in society, and the power of community living and decision-making.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Waterloo, ON

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press

    Non spécifié