Mqup: 855 books
First among Unequals
The Premier, Politics, and Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Canadians are told that provincial premiers wield considerable sway. Critics decry premiers as autocrats and dictators, while supporters label them as altruists and great leaders. In Newfoundland and Labrador the premier is expected to be the province's overlord, a patriotic defender of provincial interests,...
Counterfeit Crime
Criminal Profits, Terror Dollars, and Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In Counterfeit Crime, economist, historian, and criminologist R.T. Naylor dissects the costs - economic, social, and political - of the seemingly never-ending wars on the grossly exaggerated menaces of Crime and Terror and how most things politicians do to combat them make matters worse - for the public...
O.D. Skelton
The Work of the World, 1923-1941
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
O.D. Skelton: The Work of the World, 1923-1941 is a lively and compelling trip through the letters, diary entries, and official memoranda of O.D. Skelton, one of the most important and influential civil servants in twentieth-century Canada. Skelton was a towering foreign policy advisor to Canada's...
Commissions High
Canada in London, 1870-1971
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
MacLaren, a former diplomat posted to London, offers an insider's perspective on immigration, Canada's trade and finance, the coronation of George VI, the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and NATO. For many years the position of high commissioner was so important that the incumbent had to be a minister...
Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher?
How Government Decides and Why
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Thirty years ago, Anglo-American politicians set out to make the public sector look like the private sector. These reforms continue today, ultimately seeking to empower elected officials to shape policies and pushing public servants to manage operations in the same manner as their private-sector counterparts....
On the House
An Inside Look at the House of Commons
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
On a day-to-day basis, what does a newly elected Member of Parliament do? How does the House of Commons work? Drawing on his years of service to five majority and three minority parliaments, Rob Walsh shares first-hand insights into the inner workings of the House, beyond the political personalities...
At the Centre of Government
The Prime Minister and the Limits on Political Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
“Canada’s prime minister is a dictator.” “The Sun King of Canadian government.” “More powerful than any other chief executive of any other democratic country.” These kinds of claims are frequently made about Canada’s leader – especially when the prime minister’s party holds a majority...
14 Days
Making the Conservative Movement in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
A first-hand look into the back rooms of the conservative movement in Canada, 14 Days provides insights into how the recent history of the Canadian right has influenced the Conservative government over the past two decades. Bruce Carson, having worked in close proximity to many Conservative leaders,...
The Limits of Boundaries
Why City-regions Cannot be Self-governing
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge of global changes with an outline and comparison of the viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that city regions in western liberal democracies will not and cannot be self-governing. Self-government requires a territory delineated by official...
The Chrétien Legacy
Politics and Public Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Contributors include Yasmeen Abu-Laban (Alberta), Caroline Andrew (Ottawa), Gerard W. Boychuk (Waterloo), Kathy Brock (Queen's), Stephen Clarkson (Toronto), David Docherty (Wilfrid Laurier), Alexandra Dobrowolsky (St Mary's), Christina Gabriel (Carleton), Ian Greene (York), Tom Keating (Alberta), Erick...
Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses
Confronting Antisemitism in the Shadow of War
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
It has been thirty years since the publication of Irving Abella and Harold Troper's seminal work None is Too Many, which documented the official barriers that kept Jewish immigrants and refugees out of Canada in the shadow of the Second World War. The book won critical acclaim, but a haunting question...
Phoenix
The Life of Norman Bethune
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his pioneering commitment to the establishment of medicare in Canada....
Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario
The Interwar Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
An extensive series of interviews with local residents and a reconstruction of local news and events as chronicled in The Nugget newspaper, among other sources, allow Noël to bring to life the daily routines and celebrations that were a part of family life in rural and urban settings from Mattawa...
by Aidan Chafe
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Shiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forest fires. / Frost thickening the stoop. In his debut collection, Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe recounts his Catholic upbringing in a household dealing with the common but too often taboo subject of mental illness....