22 Provocative Canadians

22 Provocative Canadians PDF Author: Margaret Dickson
Publisher: Calgary : Bayeux Arts
ISBN: 9781896209456
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Inter- and Transcultural Learning in the Context of Canadian Young Adult Fiction

Inter- and Transcultural Learning in the Context of Canadian Young Adult Fiction PDF Author: Grit Alter
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643906757
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
Within the past few years transcultural learning has become one of the key terms in TEFL theory. Central concerns in current research include differentiating between inter- and transcultural learning, navigating processes of understanding otherness, and assessing cultural competences. Using these aspects this study investigates texts recommended for cultural learning and key components of implementing literature in ELT. The results call for a more holistic perception of alterity and argue in favour of transcultural literature as a basis for transcultural learning. All of this dissertation is in English. (Subjects: Literary Criticism, Education) [Series: Fremdsprachendidaktik in globaler Perspecktive, Vol. 5]

Romance of Transgression in Canada

Romance of Transgression in Canada PDF Author: Thomas Waugh
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773585281
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 623

Book Description
From pornography to autobiography, from the Cold War to the sexual revolution, from rural roots and mythologies to the queer meccas of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, The Romance of Transgression in Canada is a history of sexual representation on the large and small screen in English Canada and Quebec. Thomas Waugh identifies the queerness that has emerged at the centre of our national sex-obsessed cinema, filling a gap in the scholarly literature. In Part One he explores the explosive canon of artists such as Norman McLaren, Claude Jutra, Colin Campbell, Paul Wong, John Greyson, Patricia Rozema, Lea Pool, Bruce Labruce, Esther Valiquette, Marc Paradis, and Mirha-Soleil Ross. Part Two is an encyclopaedia of short essays covering 340 filmmakers, video artists, and institutions. The Romance of Transgression in Canada is both a scholarly account and a celebration of Canadian LGBTQ films - moving images that have scandalized conservative politicans, but are the envy of queer cultural festivals around the world.

The Worlds of Carol Shields

The Worlds of Carol Shields PDF Author: David Staines
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776621858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
"Carol was a very fine writer and a remarkable human being, a wonderful person whose work I closely followed for more than 20 years. I interviewed her frequently over those years, with virtually every work she produced —novel, radio drama, play, book of stories. So I had a good sense of the span of her work and also her evolution as a stylist. But the key reason I wanted to make a book focusing on her life and work is that we were friends." —Eleanor Wachtel This book strikes the right balance between intimate accounts and literary analysis. It opens with reminiscences by close friend Eleanor Wachtel, which are followed by a study of Shields’ poetry by her daughter and grandson, then by various aspects of her fiction, including a detailed examination of her plays. It closes with reminiscences by four close friends: Jane Urquhart, Joan Clark, Wayson Choy and Martin Levin. The 23 contributors offer new insights, new theories, and new perspectives about Shields’ illuminating career. Only one piece—her obituary written by Margaret Atwood—has been previously published.

Questions of Order

Questions of Order PDF Author: Peter Price
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487522185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
Canadian Confederation has long been assessed as a political moment that created a new national entity. This book breaks new ground by arguing that Confederation was an imperial event that generated new questions and ideas about the future of global political order.

The Canadian Abridgment

The Canadian Abridgment PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Sexual Violence Policies and Sexual Consent Education at Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions

Sexual Violence Policies and Sexual Consent Education at Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions PDF Author: D. Scharie Tavcer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000861171
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
This book is the culmination of three years of research into sexual violence policies and sexual consent education at post-secondary institutions across Canada. The prevalence of sexual violence has not changed in more than 30 years, and its reporting to police or school authorities has only waxed and waned over those years. In response, this book asks what can be done differently to reduce the number of victims and potential perpetrators? The book provides an environmental scan of over 120 post-secondary institutions (PSIs) across Canada as well as a deeper analysis of 7 PSIs that also include student and staff experiences and opinions. The three-year research project employed various phases to capture over 160 student voices and over 20 sexual violence staff and subject experts. Subject experts and students were also involved in reviewing the draft iterations of the proposed sexual consent education module. This book delivers readers with a broad-brush approach to understanding the landscape of sexual violence prevention and education services at PSIs across Canada. It provides a narrowed focus on 7 PSIs where student and staff survey responses and interviews provide positionality in response to the available literature. The book concludes with a proposed sexual consent education module, including its strengths and limitations, as a point of discussion for PSIs to include into their sexual violence prevention education repertoire. This book is intended for post-secondary audiences in Canada, North America, and elsewhere – for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty, staff, and administrators – where it is crucial to consider ways to address its prevalence and the ways we can incorporate prevention education into our campus communities.

Canada's 1960s

Canada's 1960s PDF Author: Bryan D. Palmer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802099548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 649

Book Description
Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this rebellious decade's impact on contemporary notions of Canadian identity.

Tax Reform in Canada

Tax Reform in Canada PDF Author: Allan M. Maslove
Publisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780886450922
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
This document contains two papers which address the process of tax reform and its fiscal impacts on families at different levels of income. The first paper, which examines the tax reform process, argues that of the government's three primary objectives in tax reform (efficiency or tax neutrality, equity, and simplicity), concern with efficiency was dominant. The second paper focuses on the concern for tax equity.

The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History

The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History PDF Author: Carolyn Strange
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487538111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
From Confederation to the partial abolition of the death penalty a century later, defendants convicted of sexually motivated killings and sexually violent homicides in Canada were more likely than any other condemned criminals to be executed for their crimes. Despite the emergence of psychiatric expertise in criminal trials, moral disgust and anger proved more potent in courtrooms, the public mind, and the hearts of the bureaucrats and politicians responsible for determining the outcome of capital cases. Wherever death has been set as the ultimate criminal penalty, the poor, minority groups, and stigmatized peoples have been more likely to be accused, convicted, and executed. Although the vast majority of convicted sex killers were white, Canada’s racist notions of "the Indian mind" meant that Indigenous defendants faced the presumption of guilt. Black defendants were also subjected to discriminatory treatment, including near lynchings. In debates about capital punishment, abolitionists expressed concern that prejudices and poverty created the prospect of wrongful convictions. Unique in the ways it reveals the emotional drivers of capital punishment in delivering inequitable outcomes, The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History provides a thorough overview of sex murder and the death penalty in Canada. It serves as an essential history and a richly documented cautionary tale for the present.