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In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic.In this revealing chronicle of the relationship...
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Oxford University Press
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1989-07-13
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This book focuses on the relationship between private and public education in a comparative context. The contributors emphasize the relationship between private choices and public policy as they affect the division of labor between public and private non-profit schools,...
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Oxford University Press
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1986-03-27
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A scathing indictment of austerity policy
In 2016, Brian Pallister’s Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba successfully campaigned on a platform to reduce taxes and restore the balance between revenue and spending. The years that followed their victory saw wages...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2025-11-26
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Since their inception, the United Nations Climate Change Conferences—or Conference of the Parties (COPs)—have shaped the global response to climate change. These high-stakes gatherings bring together world leaders, scientists, activists, and policymakers to negotiate...
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Duo
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2025-11-04
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Since their inception, the United Nations Climate Change Conferences—or Conference of the Parties (COPs)—have shaped the global response to climate change. These high-stakes gatherings bring together world leaders, scientists, activists, and policymakers to negotiate...
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Duo
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2025-11-04
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All workers deserve access to a safe and secure retirement. But neoliberal governments set up a dynamic where the retirement of some is predicated upon the exploitation of many. In the late-1980s, Ontario’s government, financial sector, and labour movement collaborated...
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Between the Lines
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2025-02-25
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What am I doing to address the climate crisis? How far will I go to defend the earth? What price am I willing to pay for climate justice? Since 2014, hundreds of people have been arrested while engaging in non-violent civil disobedience to protest the “TMX” Trans...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
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2024-10-29
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Abolish Social Work (As We Know It) responds to the timely and important call for police abolition by analyzing professional social work as one alternative commonly proposed as a ready-made solution to ending police brutality. Drawing on both historical analysis and...
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Between the Lines
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2024-06-12
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Re-envisioning multiculturalism in Canada
In 1971, Canada became the first nation in the world to officially declare its bilingual and multicultural policies. Reconstructions of Canadian Identity examines what has changed over the past fifty years, highlighting the...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2024-04-19
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If everyone—from Emmanuel Macron to Jeff Bezos, and even Coca Cola—is green, why is the environmental crisis growing at an alarmingly rapid rate? The world is already experiencing the impact of climate crisis, but we are not equally responsible for its violent effects....
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Between the Lines
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2024-03-19
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Short-listed JW Dafoe Book Prize, 2024
Short-listed Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2024
The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis
Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2023-10-27
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A new tool for preserving Indigenous cultural heritages
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) refers to community-based practices, traditions, and customs that are inherited and passed down through generations. In Stored in the Bones, Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville details...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2023-10-13
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Tracing through Indigenous institutional development in Winnipeg, and providing a unique perspective on the history of Indigenous housing development, education, and economic development, Indigenous Resistance and Development in Winnipeg 1960-2000 explores Indigenous...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Parution :
2023-03-01
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The case studies contained in this book show real life examples of complex problems being addressed through collaboration.The problems confronting modern society are complex and do not lend themselves to simple solutions or linear decision making. They require the...
Editeur :
Invenire
Parution :
2022-08-10
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Proceedings of the international symposium, “Language Planning in Capitals and Urban Environments,” held March 25–26, 2010 at the University of Ottawa, with sponsorship from the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute, Canadian Heritage, the Office of the...
Editeur :
Invenire
Parution :
2022-08-10
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Proceedings of the international symposium, “Language Planning in Capitals and Urban Environments,” held March 25–26, 2010 at the University of Ottawa, with sponsorship from the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute, Canadian Heritage, the Office of the...
Editeur :
Invenire
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2022-08-10
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The days of buoyant capital investment, jobs, and wealth are passing Alberta by as the boom-and-bust cycle runs its course and the global climate crisis becomes more acute. As the province scrambles to boost the dying oil economy and curb spending, one solution is all...
Editeur :
AU Press
Parution :
2022-06-01
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Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announces the Covid-19 pandemic will end “when the world chooses to end it.… We have all the tools we need. They include proven public health...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2022-05-30
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Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a string of dams, for which the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2022-04-29
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Radical Trust: Basic Income For Complicated Lives explores the notion that a basic income is a compassionate and dignified response to poverty and income inequality in Canada. Through extensive testimonials with those that the "social safety net" fails most...
Editeur :
Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Parution :
2021-10-01
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