Canada

  • Malaika's winter carnival : Malaika series, book 2

    Creator

    Hohn, Nadia L.

    Abstract

    When Malaika moves to Canada, there's a lot to get used to, especially Carnival in the wintertime! Malaika is happy to be reunited with Mummy, but it means moving to Canada, where everything is different. It's cold in Québec City, no one understands when she talks and Carnival is nothing like the celebration Malaika knows from home! When Mummy marries Mr. Frédéric, Malaika gets a new sister called Adèle. Her new family is nice, but Malaika misses Grandma. She has to wear a puffy purple coat, learn a new language and get used to calling this new place home.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    Groundwood Books

    Not specified
  • The boy from Buzwah : a life in Indian education

    Creator

    King, Cecil O.

    Abstract

    Cecil King's remarkable memoir, from humble beginnings on a reservation to his unparalleled legacy to ensure Indian Control of Indian Education in Canada. Cecil King grew up in the small settlement of Buzwah, Ontario, situated on Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island. King shares memories of life on the reserve in the 1930s and '40s and describes his experiences attending Buzwah Indian Day School and St. Charles Garnier Residential School. But after furthering his education, King returned home to Buzwah as a teacher.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Regina, Saskatchewan

    University of Regina Press

    Not specified
  • Under the nakba tree : fragments of a Palestinian family in Canada

    Creator

    Househ, Mowafa Said

    Abstract

    Mowafa Said Househ's family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He spent his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a Muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, when Mowafa visited his family's homeland of Palestine at the beginning of the Second Intifada, he witnessed the effects of prolonged conflict and occupation.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Edmonton, Alberta

    AU Press

    Not specified
  • Overcoming the neutral zone trap : hockey's agents of change

    Creator

    MacDonald, Cheryl A.

    Edwards, Jonathon R.J.

    Abstract

    This engaging interdisciplinary collection seeks to shed light on narratives and research that challenge hockey's norms, push its boundaries, and provide new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The volume's editors use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore how traditional ideologies and practices within the sport have contributed to exclusion and the misperception of various ways of existing in its community.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Edmonton, Alberta

    University of Alberta Press

    Not specified
  • Know it all : finding the impossible country

    Creator

    Marsh, James H.

    Abstract

    In / Know It All: Finding the Impossible Country / James Marsh tells of his evolution from a troubled childhood to a long career in Canadian publishing that culminated in the creation of The Canadian Encyclopedia - what one reviewer called "the intellectual equivalent of the building of the CPR." Through friendships, curiosity, the insights of a charismatic psychiatrist, his passion for books, and the intimate encounters with the authors he met, he championed a diverse and inclusive view of Canada, which was used to draw the great minds of an impossible nation together in a common national

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    Durvile Publications

    Not specified
  • After the force : true cases and investigations by law enforcement officers

    Creator

    Doyle, Debbie J.

    Abstract

    Like its predecessors in the Durvile True Cases series, After the Force features true cases and investigations, this time by police officers who have served in municipal, provincial, and federal police services.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    Durvile Publications

    Not specified
  • Honouring the Declaration : church commitments to reconciliation and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    Creator

    Schweitzer, Don

    Abstract

    How can churches carry out their commitment to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? Honouring the Declaration provides academic resources to help The United Church of Canada and other Canadian denominations enact their commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and offers a framework for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Regina, Saskatchewan

    University of Regina Press

    Not specified
  • Stress tested : the COVID-19 pandemic and Canadian national security

    Abstract

    The emergence of COVID-19 has raised urgent and important questions about the role of Canadian intelligence and national security within a global health crisis. Some argue that the effects of COVID-19 on Canada represent an intelligence failure, or a failure of early warning. Others argue that the role of intelligence and national security in matters of health is-and should remain-limited. At the same time, traditional security threats have rapidly evolved, themselves impacted and influenced by the global pandemic.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Calgary, Alberta

    University of Calgary Press

    Not specified
  • Run as one : my story

    Creator

    Ranville, Errol

    Abstract

    Errol Ranville has been running all his life: from chronic poverty and racism in rural Manitoba; a discriminatory music business; alcohol and drug addiction; and the responsibilities that come with being regarded as a role model. Though Errol has faced seemingly insurmountable barriers as an Indigenous performer in a predominately white music business, his band C-Weed & the Weeds released several #1 songs and went on to score JUNO nominations in 1985 and 1986. Errol was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indigenous Music Awards in 2011.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Winnipeg, MB

    Great Plains Publications

    Not specified