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Ã2006., University of Toronto Press Call No: IND 362.1 W167a Edition: 2nd edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general. Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease patterns among the Aboriginal peoples of Canada.The authors explore the evidence for changes in patterns of health and disease prior to and since European contact, up to the present. They discuss medical systems and the place of medicine within various Aboriginal cultures and trace the relationship between politics and the organization of health services for Aboriginal people. They also examine popular explanations for Aboriginal health patterns today, and emphasize the need to understand both the historical-cultural context of health issues, as well as the circumstances that give rise to variation in health problems and healing strategies in Aboriginal communities across the country. An overview of Aboriginal peoples in Canada provides a very general background for the non-specialist. Finally, contemporary Aboriginal healing traditions, the issue of self-determination and health care, and current trends in Aboriginal health issues are examined.
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1985., Canadian Catholic Historical Association Call No: SC Bio M1356t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1990., Investigative Productions Inc. Call No: DVD 971.004 I19b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of Joseph Idlout, a highly respected Inuit hunter who was pictured for many years on the back of Canada's two dollar bill. Idlout's son, Peter Paniloo, takes us on a poignant journey through his father's life and tragic death. With footage from the NFB film The Land of the Long Day, we see Paniloo as a boy of 14, living in his father's camp on the land in stark contrast with his life today in Pond Inlet with its satellite TV, supermarkets and fax machines.
![Between two worlds [DVD] (1990). Directed by Barry Greenwald.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Between two worlds [DVD] (1990). Directed by Barry Greenwald.")
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2007., Between the Lines ; South End Press Call No: BLK 305.896 B627b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The global history of black people cannot be told without addressing powerful geographical shifts: massive forced migration, land dispossession, and legal as well as informal structures of segregation. From the Middle Passage to the "Whites Only" signposts of North American apartheid, the black disaporic experience is rooted firmly in the politics of place. Literature ahs long explored cultural differences in the experience of blackness in different quarters of the diaspora. But what are the real differences between being a maroon in the hills of Jamaica, a fugitive slave in Chatham, Ontario, and a runaway in the swamps of Florida? How does location impact repression and resistance, both on the ground and in the terrain of political imagination? Enter Black Geographies. In this path-breaking collection, twelve authors interrogate the intersections between space and race. For instance, some scholars, activists, and communities have sought to protect, restore, and reimagine black historical sites. Yet each of these locations has in common acts of racial hatred and state terrorism that have erased black geographies, leaving few historical structures standing. This begs the question: Can preserving and restoring such sites promote social justice and spur community redevelopment?Black geographies-invisible and visible, past and present-pose revealing questions about the politics, and possibilities, of place. (From book cover.)
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2014., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: 917.19 W784b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 2010, Kathleen Winter took a journey across the Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness to the new math of the melting North -- where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that five nations stand poised to claim sovereignty of the land; and where the local Inuit population struggles to navigate the tension between taking part in the new global economy and defending their traditional way of life. Throughout the journey she also learns from fellow passengers Aaju Peter and Bernadette Dean, who teach her about Inuit society, past and present. She bonds with Nathan Rogers, son of the late Canadian icon Stan Rogers, who died in a plane crash when Nathan was nearly four years old. Nathan's quest is to take the route his father never travelled, except in his beloved song 'The Northwest Passage,' which he performs both as anthem and lament at sea. And she guides us through her own personal odyssey, emigrating from England to Canada as a child and discovering both what was lost and what was gained as a result of that journey. With vivid descriptions of the land and its people, this is a homage to the ever-evolving and magnetic power of the North. Kathleen Winter is the author of the novel Annabel. A long-time resident of St. John<U+2019>s, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Guide to Canada :2017., Adult, Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Call No: 971.002 B879c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the creator of the podcast Canadaland (canadalandshow.com) comes a browsable, hilarious and satirical expose of Canada's little-known dark side. If you think of Canada as a progressive paradise of free healthcare, social equality, majestic woodlands, and good manners, think again. Inside, you'll find illustrations, maps, quizzes, and charts that answer the most pressing questions about Canadian history, politics, and culture, such as: Canadian cuisine and sexuality: Do they exist? What does "sorry" actually mean? Justin Bieber, Rob Ford, Malcolm Gladwell: Why? What is Québec? You'll never look at a Canadian the same way again. Jessie Brown is a journalist and public irritant. Nick Zarzycki is a comedy writer and editor based in Toronto"--Provided by publisher.
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c2010., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: BLK 305.896 G656C Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An inspiring story of courage, adaptation and determinaton a year in the life of 11 refugee students entering universities across Canada."Most journalists have stories they never forget. This is mine."When Debi Goodwin travelled to the Dadaab Refugee Camp in 2007 to shoot a documentary on young Somali refugees soon coming to Canada, she did not anticipate the impact the journey would have on her. A year later, in August of 2008, she decided to embark upon a new journey, starting in the overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya, and ending in university campuses across Canada. For a year, she recorded the lives of eleven very lucky refugee students who had received coveted scholarships from Canadian universities, guaranteeing them both a spot in the student body and permanent residency in Canada. We meet them in the overcrowded confines of a Kenyan refugee camp and track them all the way through a year of dramatic and sometimes traumatic adjustments to new life in a foreign country called Canada. This is a snapshot of a refugee's first year in Canada, in particular a snapshot of young men and women lucky and smart enough to earn their passage from refugee camp to Canadian campus.
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By High, Steven2022., McGill Queens University Press Call No: QWF 971.4281 H638d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighbourhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood that is home to the city’s English-speaking Black community, face each other across Montreal’s Lachine Canal, once an artery around which work and industry in Montreal were clustered and by which these two communities were formed and divided. Deindustrializing Montreal challenges the deepening divergence of class and race analysis by recognizing the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles, and racial inequality. Fundamentally, deindustrialization is a process of physical and social ruination as well as part of a wider political project that leaves working-class communities impoverished and demoralized. The structural violence of capitalism occurs gradually and out of sight, but it doesn’t play out the same for everyone. Point Saint-Charles was left to rot until it was revalorized by gentrification, whereas Little Burgundy was torn apart by urban renewal and highway construction. This historical divergence had profound consequences in how urban change has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Drawing extensive interviews, a massive and varied archive of imagery, and original photography by David Lewis into a complex chorus, Steven High brings these communities to life, tracing their history from their earliest years to their decline and their current reality. He extends the analysis of deindustrialization, often focused on single-industry towns, to cities that have seemingly made the post-industrial transition. The urban neighbourhood has never been a settled concept, and its apparent innocence masks considerable contestation, divergence, and change over time. Deindustrializing Montreal thinks critically about locality, revealing how heritage becomes an agent of gentrification, investigating how places like Little Burgundy and the Point acquire race and class identities, and questioning what is preserved and for whom.
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2013., Adult, Boréal Call No: QWF FR Bio G135d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Née à Amqui, Madeleine Gagnon se souvient avec enchantement de son enfance entourée dœune nature rayonnante, au sein dœune vaste famille qui œuvre dans la forêt et sur la terre, gens droits et fiers, mais sur lœesprit desquels règne encore indûment tout ce qui porte soutane.Lœentrée au pensionnat marque le début des grandes aventures intellectuelles et la naissance dœun profond refus qui commence à creuser ses sillons. Refus qui tranquillement remontera à la surface pendant les études en Europe, pour éclater quand la jeune femme rentrera dans un Québec méconnaissable. Marx a remplacé Claudel. La psychanalyse accompagne et favorise la venue à lœécriture, et lœœuvre surgit sous forme dœun torrent. En même temps que la femme connaît la douleur et lœéblouissement de lœenfantement, lœexaltation amoureuse et les tourments du désamour.Madeleine Gagnon raconte aussi les amitiés, primordiales, avec Annie Leclerc, Christiane Rochefort, entre autres. Les luttes féministes, avec tous les rêves et toutes les déchirures quœelles portent. Le temps qui transforme tout, la disparition des parents. Les nouvelles passions, qui seules nous permettent de continuer la route, comme celle de comprendre le lien cruel et mystérieux qui unit les femmes et la guerre.
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c2013., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: 958.104 G648d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A highly personal narrative of our war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a former foreign correspondent, this is a gripping account of modern warfare that takes you into back alleys, cockpits and prisons. From the corruption of law enforcement agents and the tribal nature of the local power structure to the economics of the drug trade and the frequent blunders of foreign troops, this is the no-holds-barred story from a leading expert on the insurgency. A bold and candid look at the Taliban's continued influence--and at the mistakes, catastrophes and ultimate failure of the West's best intentions.
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c2010., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF BLK 971.428 M157d c.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Studies on the history of Quebec Volume: 21.
