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Lexical Roots of Old Cree: An Etymological Dictionary is the result of over two decades of research on historical and contemporary Cree dialects. Built from extensive linguistic fieldwork with nearly a hundred fluent speakers and supported by lexical databases and textual corpora, it offers a detailed reconstruction of Old Cree roots and their evolution across dialects such as Moose Cree, Southern East Cree, Atikamekw, and Western Innu.

Lexical roots—the smallest meaningful units of words—are central to Cree’s polysynthetic structure, where words can function as entire sentences. By meticulously tracing these roots, this dictionary provides critical insights into how words were formed in Old Cree and how they continue to be structured in modern dialects.

Beyond linguistic reconstruction, this work addresses practical challenges in Cree lexicography, particularly those arising from orthographic variations and dialectal differences. It serves as a valuable resource for lexicographers, linguists, and community members engaged in language preservation and revitalization.

The research draws from historical manuscripts, early dictionaries, and oral traditions, ensuring a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to linguistic analysis. At a time of rapid linguistic erosion, this dictionary not only documents Cree’s rich lexical heritage but also supports ongoing efforts to sustain and strengthen the language for future generations. It stands as a testament to the knowledge generously shared by fluent speakers and to the enduring vitality of Cree linguistic traditions.

Dawaa: The Space Between celebrates in poetry the tensions and beauty between the two ancestral languages of the author: Ojibwe and English.

As a First Nations woman, Tareyn Johnson grew up without knowing the language of her ancestors. Her grandparents attended residential school, and neither they, nor her mother carried the language. Left with a deep longing desire to embrace Anishnaabemowin (Ojibwe) language, she began her learning journey as an adult.

As the lists of words grew, they began to form visually in the author’s mind. As a result, 26 poems—two for each of the Thirteen Moons—grouped seasonally, beautifully juxtapose Ojibwe and English to express Johnson’s feeling of existing as an Anishnaabekwe in the modern world.

Dawaa is not intended as a didactic tool, or as a language teaching tool. This book of poetry examines the unique experience of walking into worlds, speaking and learning two languages, and relating the two ways of knowing in a liminal space… the space between.
nanda-gikendan—seek to know it, seek to learn it.

One Boy! is an emotionally charged—at times even humorous—coming-of-age narrative. In this debut work of creative non-fiction, Benjamin Maiangwa draws readers into the intimate interior of a boy navigating the delicate space between youthful innocence and the harsh realities of a Catholic boarding school.

The story traces a young man's journey through the tangled terrain of love, loss, and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of cultural expectations and religious doctrine, the protagonist endures betrayal, bullying, and the fragile beauty of friendship. As he matures within the strict confines of the boarding school and the religious hostilities of the outside world, he arrives at a moral crossroads: should he uphold the Judeo-Christian values of forgiveness instilled in him—or yield to the seductive pull of revenge?

One Boy! is more than a story of survival; it is a meditation on what it means to remain whole in a world that so often insists you break. In the end, the question isn’t just what the boy will choose—but what we would choose in his place.

Becoming an Anti-racist Educator honours the profound influence of Dr. Timothy J. Stanley, a trailblazing historian whose work has transformed how we understand racism, racialization, and historical consciousness in Canada. This timely volume brings together scholars, educators, and activists to reflect on how Stanley’s scholarship and mentorship have shaped their own commitments to antiracist education.

Spanning generations and disciplinary backgrounds, the contributors offer deeply personal and politically grounded reflections that connect Stanley’s insights to the pressing realities of our time—from the toppling of colonial statues to the resurgence of anti-Asian racism and the uncovering of unmarked graves at residential school sites. Together, they demonstrate that antiracist teaching is not just about critiquing systems, but about reimagining relationships to land, history, and each other.

Organized into three thematic sections—Shaping Anti-racist Approaches, Doing History Differently, and Mentorship—the collection culminates in a powerful epilogue by Dr. Stanley, whose voice continues to guide conversations on justice, equity, and historical accountability.

This book is an essential resource for educators, scholars, and community members committed to interrupting racism in schools, museums, universities, and beyond. It offers not only an archive of Stanley’s impact but a roadmap for those seeking to carry his work forward in urgent and transformative ways.

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 the future of our planet. Yet, despite increasing media attention, the inner workings of these forums remain complex and often misunderstood.

As COP30 takes place in 2025, 30 Climate COP Later takes a critical look at the past three decades of climate negotiations. Have these conferences driven real progress? Through the voices of key Canadian figures—diplomats, scientists, NGO leaders, journalists, and policymakers—this book offers a rare, behind-the-scenes perspective on the triumphs, setbacks, and turning points that have defined the COPs.

With firsthand accounts and candid reflections, contributors share personal experiences, pivotal moments, and insights into Canada’s evolving role in international climate diplomacy. From historic agreements to missed opportunities, their stories provide a nuanced view of the challenges and achievements of global climate negotiations.

Written for a wide audience—including students, professionals, and anyone passionate about climate action—this book sheds light on the COP process and its impact. As the climate crisis intensifies, it asks a pressing question: Can these negotiations still deliver the solutions we so urgently need?

This short book contributes to accelerating the process of recognition of governance studies as a heuristically powerful field of study in two distinct ways.

In Part I, it shows first how the governance approach has emerged in response to the limitations of the two main cosmologies that have dominated the 20th century scene type-I liberalism rooted in the market and decentralization; and type-II liberalism rooted in statism and centralization. It proposes a better way to respond effectively to the challenges of effective coordination when power, resources and information are widely distributed into many hands and heads. This new approach has been criticized by the defenders of the ruling cosmologies, but it has evolved effective prototypes of inquiring systems capable of guiding the search for effective wayfinding and for the design of organizational arrangements ensuring effectiveness, resilience and innovation. In Part II, it explores how the governance approach may help in tackling wicked policy problems where ends are neither well known nor agreed upon, and means-ends relationships are either poorly understood or unstable.

Three somewhat different cases are discussed: equality where a dominant ideology of egalitarianism in democratic societies is challenged with great difficulty by a cosmology of equability; diversity where, in Canada, maximum diversity would appear to be regarded as optimal diversity, and multiculturalism is propagandized as the nec plus ultra response even though it may be shown to be toxic; and sustainability, where the problem definition and the general direction in which a viable organizational learning regime will emerge are unclear. On both fronts, the book tries to bring a bit of subtlety, a taste for complexity, and some innovative ideas to debates that have wallowed, both at the conceptual and at the practical levels, in ideologically muddy waters.

Canada has engaged in an immigration policy experiment of momentous importance over the last 25 years: it has almost doubled the flow of new immigrants. This has not only strained Canada’s absorptive capacity and the common public culture, and increased the costs of immigration for Canadians, but it has also led the more recent cohorts of immigrants to experience much greater difficulty integrating into their new homeland, causing them to fall more and more below the level of income of the Canadian-born.


Canadians have been disinformed by officials, the intelligentsia and the media about the real impact of mass immigration on the economy and about its potential capacity to counter the effect of the aging of Canadian population. Canadians have been hoodwinked into accepting that maximum diversity is optimum diversity.


This book questions certain toxic myths in good currency about immigration, points to grievous administrative pathologies about the selection process of immigrants, and proposes new guide posts to shape a principled Canadian immigration policy – based on fair play and rules of hospitality – that include a clear understanding that permission to become a member of the host society must not be granted unconditionally. Moral contracts with newcomers should define the expectations of the host country as the quid for the quo represented by the entitlements that are afforded to the newcomer.

The transformation of the environment and of the institutional order has created quite a challenge: maintaining some sort of adequacy between these evolving realities and the frames of reference in use by public sector executives. Complexity is often nothing more than a name for a new order calling for a new frame of reference, and the reluctance to abandon old conceptual frameworks is often responsible for fundamental learning disabilities.

Through a series of conversations with Canadian federal senior executives about more and more daunting problems – from coping with an evolving context, to engaging intelligently with a new modus operandi, to trying to nudge and tweak programs in order to correct toxic pathologies, to reframing perceptions and redesigning organizations to meet the new challenges – weaknesses of the capabilities of the Canadian federal executives to respond to current challenges were revealed, and suggestions made about ways to kick start a process of refurbishment of these capabilities. This means having to gain new knowledge about complex systems – something that calls for intellectual effort.

This volume draws mainly from extensive Chatham House style discussions on 24 different topics, with approximately 100 senior executives of the Canadian federal government, with a number of interviews conducted afterward with other senior Canadian federal executives on the same themes. APEX provided a safe space for these Chatham House discussions, an opportunity for engaged senior executives to discuss daunting wicked policy problems, challenging ideas and intriguing hypotheses, and to reveal how they and their colleagues think.

This general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Justin Piché and Kevin Walby features articles by current and former prisoners documenting the latest trends in penal policy and practice in the United States. The issue also features an article to “The Dialogue on the Canadian Carceral State” that explores the punitiveness of Canada’s immigration system, a “Response” paper on the struggle over the future of the decommissioned Prison for Women (P4W) as a site of memory, as well as “Prisoners’ Struggles” contributions, and a book review. The cover art, featuring the pieces “Carceral Landscape” and “Close the Bastard Down!”, was created by Peter Collins – a former Canadian prisoner serving a life sentence who died behind bars of cancer.

Published in English.

Fifty years ago, the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism published its final report. The result of innovative research and public consultations across the country, this report, replete with data and concepts, sets the stage for a comprehensive policy on official bilingualism, which would profoundly and indelibly change the face of Canada. The resolve to affirm the officially bilingual character of the country was met with the equally fervent determination to make French the common language of Quebecers.

This book provides a critical view of the content and the consequences of the report. It is the outcome of a series of conferences held across the country in 2013, which explored the impact of these two aspects. It combines analyses of the Commission's activities, its main players, and the specific content of certain volumes of the report.

The book is divided into three parts: the first outlines the progress accomplished since the publication of the report and contributors' views of the challenges which continue to create controversy; the second part provides analyses and studies of topics covered by the Commission, effectively demonstrating how far things have evolved; and the third features testimonials, including a fascinating conversation between the first Commissioner for Official Languages, Keith Spicer, and the Commissioner in office at the time of publication, Graham Fraser.

Pasquinade is a satire or critical comment traditionally posted in a public place in ancient Rome; in particular, on the statue of Pasquino. Pasquinades in E is my contribution to this waning tradition. These essays are exercises in critical thinking. They aim at exorcising a number of mental prisons about aspects of governing, and at denouncing pathologies in our ways of thinking and governing ourselves, by exposing their toxic nature. Silence on such matters connotes tacit agreement with toxic nonsense and, therefore, guilt by association for the ensuing mal-governance.

Four ensembles of pathologies are considered. First, institutional pathologies: the toxic effect of the Charter of Rights, of certain special commissions of inquiry, of the creeping power of super-technocracy, and of the rampant invasion of legal corruption. Second, impostures and sophistry that have derailed the democratic conversation: weasel words, academism, fundamentalisms, demonization and psychosis. Third, toxic trends that are crippling the democratic process: the rhetoric of promiscuity, oikophobia, hyper-toleration and the politics of guilt. Fourth, a sample of redesign challenges dif ult to meet because of social blindness and powerful interest groups standing in the way: the National Capital Region, higher education in Ontario, the Armed Forces, the RCMP, the Of e of the Auditor General, the culture of the federal public service, and the notion of stationary population policy as fata morgana.

I will be delighted if the reader is provoked and amused by this attack on doxacracy – a democracy dependent on ill-founded opinions – and saddened if the reader is not.

Irregular governance pertains to the exploration and design of unusual or, at least, less habitual forms of governance in order to deal more effectively with emerging forms of turbulence and complexity. This capacity to transform depends on the constant arrival on the scene of the right sort of new actors, new structures and new social technologies. Yet our democratic systems are rooted in administrative conservatorship: too many public administrators conceive their role less as serving their political masters than as preserving institutions in a manner consistent with traditions that supposedly need to be maintained. This elusive, self-granted mandate is quite empowering for public administrators, since they argue that they, and their academic colleagues, are the sole group authorized to define what is to be preserved and why.


This book is a challenge to administrative conservatorship. It highlights promising initiatives and perilous ones. It makes the case for ombudspersons and against super-bureaucrats, for public-private partnerships and against single-purpose agencies, and for innovation and against the reluctance to adopt effective management tools.


A case is made for irreverence vis-à-vis traditional arrangements, and for experimentation and prototyping of new governing arrangements to be actively pursued. It is argued that organizations and socio-economies need to be progressive (in the new sense of having a greater capacity to transform) and antifragile (becoming ever more creative in dealing with avalanches as they get exposed to nastier shocks).

Striking the right fit between resources, processes, and outcomes in complex environments, where different groups have something to contribute towards joint outcomes, even though they partake in joint operations in the pursuit of their own objectives This is what intelligent governance is all about. It is the practical application of an evolving worldview that is a less conflictive, more intelligent, more cooperative and a wiser mode of human coordination. This short book proposes some guideposts for intelligent governance.

It does not put forward a rigid blueprint or a recipe that could mechanically and blindly be followed, but a prototype for a process of inquiry seeking to help organizations find a way forward (through innovation and value adding), some general indications about the most toxic pitfalls likely to materialize mental prisons, lack of mindfulness, etc. and comments about the most promising opportunities or initiatives likely to nudge the coordinating inquiries into successful directions.

Through the Detox Prism throws some light on the modern-day pathologies that are crippling the productivity, resilience, innovation and survival of our private, public and social organizations, and therefore of our standard of living.

It probes the proximate sources of dysfunction at five interfaces: between the organization and its employees (x-inefficiency), its value chain upstream (escaping fault), its socio-physical environment (externalities), its governance regime (hijacking by certain groups), and its ethical context (moral vacancy). Toxicities at these five interfaces are interrelated and moral vacancy is of central importance in this complex of relationships that may be the source of something like two-thirds to three-quarters of the observed waste. Our inquiry, built around the Detox Prism, gauges the toxicity at these five interfaces, probes their sources, and suggests useful families of design repairs based on a mix of mechanisms of practical use in the different sectors.

This detox perspective is based on a systematic effort to lift both analysts and practitioners with the skyhook of a crane in order to broaden their outlook, to lengthen their time horizon, and to help them escape from mental prisons to inspire effective and practical design thinking.

Town and Crown is an illustrated history of the planning and development of Canada’s capital, filling a significant gap in our urban scholarship. It is the story of the transformation of the region from a subarctic wilderness portage to an attractive modern metropolis with a high quality of life. The book examines the period from 1800 to 2011 and is the first major study that covers both sides of the Ottawa River, addressing the settlement history of Aboriginal, French, and English peoples.

Ottawa’s transformation was a significant Canadian achievement of the new profession of urban planning in the mid-20th century. Our national capital has the country’s most complete history of community planning and served as a gateway for important international planning ideas and designers. Town and Crown illustrates the influence of landscape architect and Olmsted protégé Frederick Todd, Chicago’s City Beautiful architect Edward Bennett, and British planner Thomas Adams. Prime Minister Mackenzie King maintained a direct interest in planning Canada’s capital for almost fifty years, choosing France’s leading urbaniste, Jacques Gréber, to plan the post-1945 redevelopment of the region.

The principal research method for Town and Crown includes over sixteen years of archival studies in North America, Australia, and Europe, and interviews with key politicians, designers, and planners that supplemented the contemporary research. The narrative is supplemented by over 200 images drawn from early sketches, historical maps, plans, and archival photography to illustrate the physical transformation of Canada’s federal capital.

Canada experienced a tainted-blood crisis in the latter part of the 20th century. It left a number of Canadians dead, and a large number incapacitated or seriously handicapped. It has been established by the court that there was no criminal negligence at the source of this event, but there were most certainly governance failures. This latter aspect of the tragedy has not received the attention it deserves. These governance failures have transformed the crisis into a tragedy, and the tragedy generated a miscarriage of justice – if justice delayed for decades may be regarded as justice denied.

This book has been written by a specialist on governance, and a medical doctor and scientist, who managed the Canadian blood transfusion system for 17 years. It challenges the conventional wisdom that underpinned the four ill-founded accusations against a few persons levied by interest groups, the media, and the Office of the Solicitor General of Ontario, and it argues that the tragedy was the result of a cascade of pathologies of governance.

A systemic reconstruction of the tragedy is proposed, the administrative processes that we argue were responsible for the pathologies of governance are exposed, and suggestions are made to neutralize such malefits in the future. The full-text of the judgment and reasons provided by Justice Benotto, when one of the ill-founded accusations was brought to court, is enclosed. This led the Crown to drop the other three ill-founded accusations. A postface underlines the lack of critical thinking that has allowed such a tragedy to follow its course.

Unusual Suspects: Essays on Social Learning looks into the forces at work that have undermined critical thinking and sound intellectual inquiry in the world of public affairs in Canada, have fostered reductive perspectives and destructive blockages to collaborative governance to emerge, and have succeeded in blinding observers to the real sources of the present Canadian malaise, blocking the road to imaginative repairs.

Part I deals frontally with the twilight of critical thinking that has led to a dramatic weakening of the critical examination of issues, and the process of inquiry that has been significantly weakened by ever narrower perspectives.

Part II focuses on two mental prisons: the obsessive and reductive insistence on a quantophrenic twist (only that which can be quantified counts); and the failure by crucial partners to live up to the requirements of their burden of office in circumstances when disloyalty considerably enfeebles the possibility of effective collaborative governance and the chance for organizations to succeed.

Part III suggests that it is not impossible to get rid of the blinders preventing the adoption of more synoptic approaches, and the exploration of more imaginative designs to repair our organizations and institutions. Ways to deal with the challenges facing the Canadian socio-economy are hinted at, and the work of a successful social architect showcased.

The conclusion makes the case for an approach that is both synoptic and guided by reasonableness – against the dogmas of disciplines and skimpy rationality.

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 Commissioner of Official Languages and the City of Ottawa.

The Language Planning in Capitals and Urban Environments Symposium brought together administrators and researchers from Canadian and European cities to discuss language planning in urban environments. Two important concepts emerged from the proceedings: municipal bilingualism as an asset that deserves to be promoted, rather than merely a question of regulation; and bilingualism as a symbol of openness and inclusion that cities can use to advantage to distinguish themselves from their competitors.

This book reflects the experience of one of Canada's most experienced urbanists. The vast majority of Canadians live in cities, and this trend will accelerate. Yet, discussion of urban requirements, policy and agendas barely registers for many citizens.

In this important book, François Lapointe, a practicing urbanist, provides a distinctive analysis of urban reality and an imaginative and thought-provoking vision of a sustainable, healthy, and resilient urban future.

He asks essential questions: What do we see in Cities? What does it tell us? What do we need to do about it? Cities as crucibles is a challenging read on governance and urbanism.

Much of the waste in public administration is ascribable to the displacement of the primary concern for performance and coordination by a primary concern for redistribution. In each sphere of activities, it has led to unreasonable rules inspired by egalitarianism that have triggered permanent allocational malefits.

The failure to confront the progressivist ethos and culture has rendered any action on the managerial front ineffective. First, the authors underscore the seemingly unanimous diagnosis of waste and dysfunctions in Canada’s federal public service and show that efforts to correct the situation have failed. This failure is ascribable to a fundamental incapacity to deal concurrently with the ill-advised managerial decisions of governments and the perverse progressivist philosophy inspiring them. Second, an MRI of the human resource (HR) regimes has been sketched as a guide to the detoxing and modernization of the HR regimes.

It was used to spell out some guidelines for the modification of management structures and competencies, and to probe the cultural underground of moral contracts that would need to underpin the new arrangements.

Cybersecurity is a powerful concept often examined through the lens of national security and organizational risks. It however demands a deeper understanding to empower our societies—and ourselves—to thrive in the digital context.

This edited collection explores a new approach to human-centric cybersecurity: the security of self. It invites a paradigm shift where cybersecurity’s core purpose is to protect people—and society—from harm, and where empowering individual and collective rights defines what it means to provide a secure cyber environment.

With a distinct Canadian focus, and case studies spanning the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and social media, this collection charts a path forward for cybersecurity, grounded in law, policy and practices that advance the security of self. This collection serves as a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, regulators and individuals seeking to understand and shape the future of human-centric cybersecurity.

The past few decades have been witness to a number of important developments with respect to the global intellectual property (IP) system, including shifts in focus between multilateralism and bilateralism/regionalism; growing recognition of the various ways in which IP intersects with and impacts areas including human rights, development, trade, and social justice; broad acknowledgement of the economic value of many IP rights; and important theoretical interventions that have challenged the values underlying the global IP system.

These developments have occurred alongside several other events, changes, and crises that have altered the landscape of our global communities. Chief among them are climate change; armed conflicts; the COVID-19 pandemic; economic changes to work; technological shifts including those relating to the internet and artificial intelligence, and their role in society; and growing recognition of the inequities that exist within and between societies as well as the ways in which these inequities are reinforced and maintained through systemic discrimination and ongoing colonialism.

Given these developments, changes, and crises, what is the future of IP law and policy? Featuring contributions from scholars from across Canada and around the world, this collection offers insights into eighteen possible futures for the global IP system.

Collectively, these chapters re-envision international agreements; rethink Canadian IP law; argue for the creation of space for Indigenous legal traditions; highlight the promises and perils of technology as it relates to IP; expose inequities and injustices, and provide possible pathways to correct them.

This novel paints the portrait of a Lebanese family that has settled in Montreal. The central figure is Dounia, a 75-year-old mother and grandmother. Hers is a story of loss—she first leaves her own village to live in her husband’s hometown, and then is wrenched from her homeland, not once but twice, to live in a strange land whose language and customs are foreign to her.

Dounia can neither read nor write, and she speaks only Arabic. Illiterate yet perceptive, nourished by Lebanese proverbs and pearls of wisdom, she has a unique and captivating voice. She struggles, yes, but manages to achieve fulfilment in her new world: “My home is where my grandchildren are, clinging to my neck, calling me Sitto Dounia […] in my language. I want to die where my children and my grandchildren live.”

Abla Farhoud was an actor and playwright before becoming a novelist in 1998 with the publication of this novel, the French title of which was Le bonheur a la queue glissante, awarded the France-Québec – Philippe Rossillon Prize. Other novels followed, including Le Sourire de la petite Juive (published in English as Hutchison Street), Le dernier des Snoreux, and the posthumous book Havre-Saint-Pierre. Abla Farhoud passed away in 2021.

Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Legal Journals provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges presented by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on legal journals, including the Ottawa Law Review (OLR).

Throughout the publication lifecycle of a given piece, AI tools may play a pivotal role in enhancing the editorial and publishing processes. Similarly, authors submitting to legal journals may also leverage AI tools for purposes that range from improving readability to generating content.

While the potential benefits are significant, the use of such tools raises various issues pertaining to the accuracy and quality of publications, as well as broader ethical and legal issues.

Journals have responded to these opportunities and challenges at different speeds and in different ways. Some journals in non-legal disciplines have developed extensive AI policies, while the majority of legal journals appear to be falling behind in this regard.

This book contains several recommendations that will empower the OLR to embrace the transformative potential of AI responsibly while maintaining its commitment to safeguarding privacy, intellectual property, and scholarly rigour.

Central to this endeavour is the adoption of three AI policies: one covering the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in submissions, another addressing AI usage in the peer review process, and a final one relating to the editorial team.

This book ultimately aspires to ensure the OLR upholds its reputation as a reliable contributor to legal scholarship by guiding the organization through this new technological revolution.

In this volume are gathered articles published by Yolande Cohen and her team, offering for the first time a global perspective on Moroccan Jews' post-colonial migrations to France and Canada. Having herself migrated from Morocco to Montreal, Cohen is uniquely attuned to the difficulties of living through such a massive exile. Why did members of the Jewish community leave Morocco? When did this migration happen? And how can we analyze their journey?

Cohen explores the many vivid memories of departures that she encountered when collecting oral histories of migrants both in France and in Quebec. She notes the deep attachment some of them have to their King and to Morocco, making this an exception in the Arab Muslim world. The main disruptive forces in the displacement of these populations were French colonialism and its emancipatory promises and Zionism, both messianic and modern.

After the establishment of the State of Israel and the subsequent Israel-Arab wars, most of them joined in the mass exodus of Jews from Arab lands, leaving their countries for Israel. With the demise of the French colonial empire and the decolonization process, a minority of westernized Jews went to France and to Canada, with the help of transnational Jewish organizations.

In Montreal, a city with a strong multi-ethnic Jewish community, those migrants understood the crucial aspect of French language as an essential factor of integration. Yet, analyzing their trajectories and the words they used to represent their exile, allows us to understand the underlying traumas.

The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) is a prisoner-written, academically oriented and peer-reviewed non-profit journal based on the tradition of the penal press. JPP brings the knowledge produced by prison writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public discourse about the current state of carceral institutions. This is particularly important because, with few exceptions, definitions of deviance and constructions of those participating in these defined acts are incompletely created by social scientists, media representatives, politicians and individuals in the legal community.

These analyses most often promote self-serving interests, omit the voices of those most affected and facilitate repressive and reactionary penal policies and practices. As a result, the JPP attempts to acknowledge the accounts, experiences and criticisms of the criminalized by providing an educational forum where women and men can participate in the development of research that concerns them directly. In an age where “crime” has become lucrative and exploitable, the JPP exists as an important alternate source of information that competes with popularly held stereotypes and misconceptions about those who are currently, or who have in the past, faced the deprivation of liberty.

Canadian Nordicity is a pioneer work in more than one sense. It covers - the entire Canadian North: not only the Northwest Territories and the Yukon, but also seven provinces of Canada with northern territories. The North is at once the most extensive and least known region of Canada.

The author, who won both the Governor General's Award and the Prix Scientifique de la Province de Québec for this volume, introduces a novel concept: nordicity. Nordicity signifies the level of awareness and the degree of northern or polar consciousness in the minds of Canadians, as well as in the policies and actions at various levels of Canadian government.

Professor Hamelin has shown great skill in presenting the dynamic interplay of geography, ethnology, industry, settlement, and communications, as well as corporate and governmental policies as they influence contemporary life and development in the Canadian North. The treatment reflects skillful melding of fact and concept from the mind of an outstanding Canadian scientist.
Hamelin is concerned that many, probably most, Canadians know very little about their North. This is a time when major decisions are being made concerning the Canadian North that will affect the whole country, and this book provides excellent background against which to debate our course there.

This collection includes the following stories:
"Green Green Grass", "Conversation with a German", "Many Mansions", "Edge of Christmas", "Carnival of the Animals", "Pity the Poor Piper", "Spring Song", "Old Frank", "Lena", "The truck", "The Haying"

STORIES IN THIS VOLUME (all written between 1966 and 1974)
The Lady and the Travelling Salesman:
This was originally a sixty-minute radio play broadcast on CBC Stage, and has been adapted for television for the CBC's Performance series of TV. It was published by Oberon in New Canadian Stories 75, edited by Joan Harcourt and David Helwig, Oberon Press, September, 1975.
Night and Morning Wounds:
Was originally broadcast on CBC Anthology in an earlier form, under the title "The Wounded King."
The Ferris Wheel:
Originally a short story broadcast on the CBC literary program New Writing, this was adapted as a thirty-minute radio play and broadcast on CBC Playhouse in Canada, and on National Public
Radio in the U.S. It was adapted for television by David Peddie, and produced by him in his television drama series To See Ourselves. The story appeared in print for the first time in New Canadian Stories 72, edited by Joan Harcourt and David Helwig, Oberon Press, 1972.
Recipe For a Rebel:
Was originally broadcast on the CBC literary program New Writing.
The Savages:
Originally appeared in New Canadian Stories 73, edited by Joan Harcourt and David Helwig,
Oberon Press, 1973.
The Cahershannon Heresy:
Originally appeared as a story in Saturday Night magazine, and was later adapted for radio as a sixty-minute play and broadcast on CBC Stage.
A Single to El Paso:
Was originally broadcast on CBC Anthology.
The Ivy-Covered Manner:
A new story, appears in this collection for the first time.
Visiting the Future:
Was originally broadcast on CBC Anthology in an earlier form, under the title "Paddy Carmody's Place."
Where Does a Giant Gorilla Sleep?:
Was written originally as a radio play, and broadcast on CBC Stage in Canada, and on National Public Radio in the U.S. It appears as a story for the first time in this collection.⁠

The Demilitarized Society diagnoses the economic and allied decay caused by militarism, and formulates a set of proposals — political and economic — for demilitarizing our societies. It argues for building a coalition to challenge the power of the war-making institutions, composed of those occupations and interests which are deprived by the misapplication of resources to armaments. The deterioration of the infrastructure and productivity of society can only be reversed by the proper use of social capital. Adequate housing, health services, education, roads, public transportation, environmental cleanup, urban renovation, care of our children and the aged are all frustrated by the misuse of the capital fund to build weapons that are too terrible to be used and whose use would result in omnicide.

Industrialized nations - East and West - face this dilemma in common with much of the less developed world. Once the superpowers embark on the simultaneous course of disarmament and economic conversion, it will be in their interest and essentially within their power to ensure that the blocs they control and other nations within their spheres of influence do likewise.

The author provides a reliable "road map" to disarmament which would secure the jobs of those presently employed in military production and administration, and even the legal framework necessary for all nations to follow.

The "American Dream"—a utopian formula of the American ideals of wealth, happiness and individual freedom... Could an ideology so full of creative potential also be plagued with deviations and delusions? To be sure, the "American Nightmare" coexists with the American Dream, the imperatives of "Realpolitik" accompany those of "Manifest Destiny" and the power of destruction matches that of creation.

The essays in this book explore the manifestations of the American Dream's various applications. Indeed, this vision of the world has had, since 1930, a great impact on a number of fields. Whether it be architecture, literature, advertising, television, the Disneyland complex or the movie Jurassic Park, each reveals the singularity and the symbolic intricacies that are part and parcel of this common expression of the modern world. The appeal of this grand ideological vision, which defines itself as the end of ideology, if not the end of history, is always timely since it is constantly reviewed and discussed.


«American Dream», formule utopique du rêve américain d'abondance, de bonheur, de liberté individuelle... Cette idéologie réunissant un potentiel créatif immense serait-elle également porteuse de délires et de dérapages? Car au rêve correspond aussi le cauchemar, à la Manifest Destiny les impératifs de la Realpolitik, au pouvoir de création un pouvoir de destruction.

Les textes regroupés dans cet ouvrage tracent et retracent ce que la représentation de l'American Dream a engendré; nombreux sont les domaines où cette vision du monde trouve, depuis 1930, une forme de réalisation. Qu'il s'agisse d'architecture, de littérature, de publicité, de culture télévisuelle, de Disneyland ou du film Jurassic Park, chacun témoigne de la singularité et de la complexité symbolique de cette expression typique du monde contempo-rain. L'emprise de cette grande vision idéologique qui se pose comme fin des idéologies, quand ce n'est pas comme fin de l'histoire, est toujours d'actualité puisqu'en perpétuel renouvellement.

French Canadians are more historically minded than most other North Americans. The historians Gagnon has chosen to feature— Garneau, Ferland, Sulte, and Groulx—have a special significance because they were widely read by generations of their compatriots. They shaped the French Canadians' view of their own past and imprinted their own social and "national" identity.

Gagnon has given attention to the methodology of his historians, their access to sources, and their assessment of historical evidence. His major emphasis, however, is on their historical interpretation, on the values and ideology which explain their selection of events, the importance they give to personalities and to the events themselves. He has also made a sustained effort to put each author in his historical context, to show how the society in which they lived led them to stress certain values and to draw the lessons they did from the past. The analysis of the socio-historical context of each historian's writings, as well as those of their critics and out-riders, is comprehensive and informative. There is no other comparable study of French-Canadian historiography.

Parks for Profit is a lively contribution to a relatively neglected field of Canadian history. Beginning with the creation of Canada's first national park in Banff in 1885, the author provides a sympathetic story of the historical tension between conservation and profit which has marked Canada's national parks policy. She traces this motif from the era of Macdonald and Van Horne, through that of Mackenzie King to the initiatives of Trudeau and Chrétien, to the present day.

Canada's national parks have been consistently in jeopardy, whether from resource exploitation, commercialization, boundary erosion, federal-provincial jurisdictional conflict or budget cuts.
Yet, for more than a century, Canadian environmentalists, and certain politicians and civil servants, have continued to fight for, create, and maintain new parks—though frequently against great odds. Supported by meticulous documentation, this book chronicles the displacement by the automobile of the railroad from its dominance in the older parks, and it reveals the way the need for national highways influenced the financing and location of new parks. It also analyzes the conflicts between the railroad, mining, lumbering, hydro, and townsite interests, and those who worked to preserve the land in a more natural state. Native land claims too are proving to be an integral part of the contemporary park-making process.

The author's independent assessment of the striving for park creation over the last century, as well as her recommendations for the future, make Parks for Profit vital reading.

VOLUME 12 (2003) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons dedicated to International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA).

The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) is a prisoner-written, academically oriented and peer-reviewed non-profit journal based on the tradition of the penal press. JPP brings the knowledge produced by prison writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public discourse about the current state of carceral institutions. This is particularly important because, with few exceptions, definitions of deviance and constructions of those participating in these defined acts are incompletely created by social scientists, media representatives, politicians and individuals in the legal community.

These analyses most often promote self-serving interests, omit the voices of those most affected and facilitate repressive and reactionary penal policies and practices. As a result, the JPP attempts to acknowledge the accounts, experiences and criticisms of the criminalized by providing an educational forum where women and men can participate in the development of research that concerns them directly. In an age where “crime” has become lucrative and exploitable, the JPP exists as an important alternate source of information that competes with popularly held stereotypes and misconceptions about those who are currently, or who have in the past, faced the deprivation of liberty.

VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1 (1998) is a general issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons edited by Liz Elliott, Stephen Reid and Peter Murphy.

The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) is a prisoner-written, academically oriented and peer-reviewed non-profit journal based on the tradition of the penal press. JPP brings the knowledge produced by prison writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public discourse about the current state of carceral institutions. This is particularly important because, with few exceptions, definitions of deviance and constructions of those participating in these defined acts are incompletely created by social scientists, media representatives, politicians and individuals in the legal community.

These analyses most often promote self-serving interests, omit the voices of those most affected and facilitate repressive and reactionary penal policies and practices. As a result, the JPP attempts to acknowledge the accounts, experiences and criticisms of the criminalized by providing an educational forum where women and men can participate in the development of research that concerns them directly. In an age where “crime” has become lucrative and exploitable, the JPP exists as an important alternate source of information that competes with popularly held stereotypes and misconceptions about those who are currently, or who have in the past, faced the deprivation of liberty.

Social Sciences and the Environment presents an interdisciplinary analysis of environmental issues. Thanks to the contributions from top specialists in the social sciences, whether in history, economics, geography, political science, demography or administrative sciences, this work offers a general survey of how each of these disciplines may contribute to the understanding of current environmental issues. In addition to reflections by specialists, the book includes perspectives of spokespersons from government, unions, management and native affairs. This book is a valuable tool for all those who wish to better understand the nature and social dimensions of environmental issues and fir analyzing the players' strategies.

The essays gathered in this work were presented at an international conference on social sciences and the environment, organized by the Social Science Federation of Canada, in February 1994


Les Sciences sociales et l'environnement présente une analyse transdisciplinaire des problèmes environnementaux. Grâce à la contribution des plus grands spécialiastes de l'heure en sciences sociales, que ce soit en histoire, en économie, en géographie, en science politique, en démograhie ou en sciences administratives, cet ouvrage offre un aperçu de la contribution que peut apporter chacune de ces disciplines à la compréhension des questions environnementales. Outre les réfléxions des spécialistes, on y trouve également le point de vue des porte-parole des milieux gouvernementaux, syndicaux, patronaux et autochtones. Cet ouvrage s'impose donc à toute personne qui se penche sur le sujet dans le but de comprendre la nature des problèmes, de saisir leur dimension sociale et d'analyser les stratégies des acteurs.

Les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage ont été présentés lors d'une conférence internationale sur les sciences sociales et l'environnement, qui a été organisée par la Fédération conadienne des sciences sociales, en février 1994

The Twentieth Century, a sequel to the author's Quebec and Its Historians: 1840 to 1920, is a survey of the main interpretive currents of a period of remarkable transformation in the study of French-Canadian history. Gagnon's principal themes are the emergence of professional or "scientific" history in postwar Quebec and the continuing struggles of nationalist and anti-nationalist scholars. At the same time, the author himself emerges as an impassioned partisan in the debates he chronicles and much of this work consists of a critique of the positions of Fernand Ouellet, a leading protagonist in recent historical controversies.

In earlier chapters, Michel Brunet, Jean Hamelin, Guy Frégault, Marcel Trudel and Louise Dechêne, among others, are placed in the context of their times and their reactions to previous scholarship is examined.

There are very few works on Canadian historiography and, the essays of Ramsay Cook aside, the most widely-read book on the subject, Carl Berger's The Writing of Canadian History, deals only with English-Canadian historians. This volume will, therefore, be of particular interest to English speaking historians, students, and general readers. The latter might also be interested in learning about the connections between historical debate and the political conflicts that rocked Quebec in recent decades.

The Symons Medal, one of Canada’s most prestigious honours, recognizes an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to Canadian life.

The award evening affords the distinguished recipient the opportunity to discuss the current state and the future of the Canadian Confederation.

The Honourable Bob Rae is the 2020 awardee, in recognition of his many years of work on humanitarian issues, most recently the Rohingya refugee crisis, as well as his commitment to Indigenous issues and his decades of public service and teaching. He has always been deeply involved in the political life of Canada—as a member of Parliament, former premier of Ontario, and interim leader of the federal Liberal Party.

Bob Rae, the twentieth recipient of the Symons Medal, devotes his lecture, titled Learning from the Past, Imagining the Future: Reflections from a Political Life, to exploring such themes as Canada’s improbable origins as a nation, post-war emergence onto the global stage, active membership within the United Nations, and the significance of the ever-evolving Canadian constitution—a “living tree document.”

Learning from the Past, Imagining the Future extends the access to this inspiring lecture from a key contributor to the Canadian nation.

VOLUME 33, Number 2 (2024) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on “Homelessness and Incarceration” edited by Erin Dej (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Dale Spencer (Carleton University). In addition to articles on the intersection between homelessness and imprisonment, this edition of the journal includes another installment of the dialogue on the Canadian carceral state featuring two articles written by Indigenous writers. The collection also includes a call for contributions for the 49th edition of Prisoners’ Justice Day and artwork by Ronnie Goodman.


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Volume 33, Number 1 (2024) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) edited by Grant Tietjen (University of Washington – Tacoma), Alison Cox (East Carolina University) and J. Renee Trombley (Metropolitan State University of Denver) marking the 25th anniversary of Convict Criminology.

The collection features contributions on the reflecting on the past, present and future of Convict Criminology, including the role activism can play in scholarship by criminalized people. There are also articles that examine topics such as the challenges associated with securing release from prison and the stigmatizing impact labels have people deemed to be criminal.

Contributors include Alison Cox, Daniel Kavish, Michelle Malkin, Jennifer Ortiz, Jeffrey Ian Ross, Grant Tietjen, J. Renee Trombley and Denise Woodall.

The collection also includes cover art from Serge Tkachenko and Oliger Merko that were originally showcased at Prison Creative Arts Project exhibitions.

In February 1997, the Ontario government announced the closure of Hôpital Montfort, the province's only French-language teaching hospital. The shockwave was immediate, giving rise to SOS Montfort, an organization dedicated to saving an institution deemed essential to the survival of French Ontario. The result was an impressive solidarity movement that shone a spotlight on the issue of the francophone minority on the national stage.

Edited by François Charbonneau and Michel Bock, Le moment Montfort dans la francophonie canadienne takes a multi-faceted look at the issues and repercussions of a national crisis. It offers an in-depth, never-before-published overview that renews our understanding of the socio-political condition of Canada's French-speaking minority communities.

The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired an outpouring of responses among Canadian cultural producers. Yet, the war and its influence on Canada literature have received little attention in histories of Canadian cultural production. This anthology attempts to remedy this gap and inspire future research into Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. The anthology brings together a selection of diverse literary materials—fiction, poetry, drama, reportage, journalism, pamphlets, memoirs, and other life writing—representing just a fraction of the Canadian cultural production inspired by the Spanish conflict. Many of these texts have never been published before, having been largely dispersed in archives across the world.

This selected anthology joins Ted Allan’s This Time a Better Earth, Hugh Garner’s Best Stories, and Charles Yale Harrison’s Meet Me on the Barricades in the Spanish Civil War subseries of the University of Ottawa Press’s Canadian Literature Collection. Together, these edited texts are now re-circulating under a common banner to establish what we consider to be the first stage in the recovery of anglophone Canadian literature about the Spanish Civil War. To further situate the literary texts included here, we include a scholarly introduction, and a full apparatus of author biographies, textual notes, and explanatory notes. The introduction provides an historical-cultural overview of the 1930s to contextualize Canadian involvement in the Spanish Civil War and the cultural production the war generated. After establishing a historical and cultural context, we explain the rationale we’ve applied to the selection of texts for inclusion. The notes explain specific historical-cultural terms and trace the publication histories and editorial evolutions of each text.

Includes works by Ted Allan, Norman Bethune, Jean Watts, Neil Bissoondath, Dyson Carter (Jack Parr), Hugh Garner, George Gordo, A.M. Mowat, Kathryn Peck, Alfonso Rojo, Milton Acorn, Patrick Anderson, George Elliott Clarke, Stephen Collis, Margaret Day, Brian Dedora, Louis Dudek, Dorothy Livesay, Leo Kennedy, Eldon Grier, Ron Hawkins, Jesús López-Pacheco, L.A. Mackay, Seymour Mayne, Lionel Reid, F.R. Scott, Miriam Waddington, Patrick Waddington, J.A. Wainwright, J.S. Wallace, and many others.

Quest for Beauty – The Photographic Journey of Malak of Ottawa, is the authorized biography of the prolific, passionate and tireless Canadian photographer Malak Karsh. Malak’s quest takes us from the Karsh family’s exodus from Turkey wrought by the 1915 Armenian genocide, to Canada and a storied life filled with colour, beauty and joy.


The brother of Yousuf Karsh, arguably the world’s most renowned portrait photographer, Malak of Ottawa spent a lifetime capturing images of Canadians, Canadian industry, Canadian landscapes, seascapes, cities, icons, and daily life, through millions of images.


Key to his success was his relentless pursuit of perfection – every single photograph was the result of a painstaking event, defiant of the elements, and often placing himself at physical risk in order to achieve his artistic objectives.


Central to Quest for Beauty is the Canadian capital City of Ottawa, Canada’s distinctive gothic-revival Parliament Buildings, his decades-long association with the Dutch and his obsession with tulips – an untold volume of floral photography that in part redefined Canada’s capital city.

For over forty years, William Head on Stage (WHoS) has operated as an inmate-run prison theatre, making it one of Canada’s longest-standing prison arts initiatives.

Staging Prison Theatre in Canada: Setting the Spotlight on William Head on Stage delves into the story of WHoS through the voices of the men involved, offering a unique criminological perspective that situates their experiences within the prison context.

The analysis explores how WHoS creates an alternative space within the social and emotional realities of incarceration. By unlocking participants’ capacities, skills, and confidence, the initiative fosters a sense of agency and community both inside the prison and beyond. WHoS becomes a space for transformation, offering men opportunities to re-imagine themselves and build meaningful connections.

This work underscores the broader significance of arts-based initiatives like WHoS, not only within prisons but also in the fields of criminology, theatre, and community engagement. It offers valuable insights for correctional administrators, criminologists, theatre practitioners, scholars, students, and anyone interested in the intersection of art and rehabilitation.

Aristotle, Oedipus, and Greek Religion explores an important religious side of ancient Aristotelianism, one which has an impact on contemporary philosophical debates.

Louis F. Groarke shows how an exegetical perspective open to and respectful of Greek Pagan religion allows readers to discover a remarkably different Aristotle than the one to which we have grown accustomed.

To begin with, one must discover what Aristotle (and his school) taught, not by examining isolated passages, but by getting a sense of his philosophy as a whole. One has to make sense of the circumstantial evidence and carefully piece together a coherent technical case for the overall argument.

In each chapter, Groarke considers another aspect of Aristotelian thought; this is in opposition to mainstream opinion which often describes Aristotle as a secret atheist, an agnostic, or as something akin to a modern-day positivist or a reductionist.

The author goes on to show that Aristotle valued religious practice on a personal and social level, that his metaphysics are marked by intimations of the divine, that he provides an epistemological space for both science and religion, that his account of Greek tragedy has an inalienable moral and religious side, and that his account of the origins of cognition is not so far removed from religious scripture.

Aristotle, Oedipus, and Greek Religion is an analysis of universal themes from the viewpoint of an enormously influential ancient thinker, and an adventure into the history of ideas.

Nous vivons dans un monde où les lignes de démarcation nationales, génériques et existentielles se sont progressivement effacées. Mais cet effacement est de l’ordre du fantasme ; les territoires de l’identité restent aujourd’hui délimités par une multitude de tracés linguistiques, écologiques, historiques, économiques, politiques et autres, comme le rappelle le titre de ce numéro de Francophonies d’Amérique, « Frontières incertaines ». Centrés sur la littérature, le théâtre, la linguistique et l’analyse du discours, les articles de ce numéro portent dans l’ensemble sur la dimension frontalière de la représentation. Peut-être faut-il insister ici sur le fait que, plus que tous les autres, sans doute, les francophones de l’Amérique ressentent de façon aiguë l’impossibilité de la pensée unique. Chaque jour, dans leurs comportements langagiers, ils en rejettent les prémisses, s’appuyant plutôt sur le principe d’incertitude qui régit leur présence sur l’ensemble du continent.

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Her goal: to become a world-renowned biomedical engineer working with scientific societies to improve the role of women in scientific fields and the way scientists and engineers integrate people and society into their work. By 1979, this goal had become a reality.

In her memoirs, acclaimed biomedical engineer Monique Frize recalls the events in her life that taught her to overcome obstacles, become more resilient, recognize the importance of mentors and role models, and remain focused on the future. She also speaks of her appreciation of the critical role played by family and friends in maintaining the strength and determination required to succeed. And, above all, to succeed in a man’s world.

Frize fondly remembers her youth in Montreal and in Ottawa, and her marked interest for math and science. Her entry into the world of engineering was both romantic—she met her husband—and tragic. She faced prejudice and stereotypes, which she ultimately overcame. She reconciled family and work life, pursuing a challenging and rewarding international career in a very specialized field at a time when this was still very uncommon for a woman. And she relives the tragic Polytechnique massacre.

These memoirs are sure to inspire young women who have a dream, and more specifically those who wish to enter sciences and engineering.

Ce recueil nous fait pénétrer dans le cabinet de travail de onze femmes, traductrices de romans, de traités scientifiques, d’études historiques et d’ouvrages philosophiques. L’une d’elles a traduit la Bible en entier. Une autre est l’auteur d’un manuel de traduction qui a fait date. Grâce à la traduction, ces femmes instruites, indépendantes et déterminées ont pu s’affirmer sur le plan social, pénétrer dans le monde des idées et prendre la parole à des époques où cela leur était refusé. Ce faisant, elles ont contribué à modifier le regard déformant que les hommes portaient sur les capacités intellectuelles des femmes. Au cours de l’histoire, les traductrices ont assumé les mêmes rôles que les traducteurs masculins. Seul celui de « soutien au conjoint » leur serait propre. La connaissance du sujet traduisant est indispensable à l’interprétation et à la compréhension d’une œuvre traduite. Aussi, les auteurs de ces portraits bien documentés ont-ils complété l’analyse des traductions par l’examen des circonstances qui les ont vus naître. Sans faire de concession à la rigueur scientifique, sans verse non plus dans l’éloquence emphatique ou le lyrisme exalté, ils ont su peindre tout en nuances et dans une langue vivante, des traductrices indissociables de leur œuvre. Des femmes qui, à certains égards, sont exceptionnelles. Assez en tout cas pour mériter d’être mieux connues. Assez pour figurer en bonne place dans les annales de l’histoire de la traduction.

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Évoquer Germaine Guèvremont (1893-1968), c’est faire surgir le personnage mythique du Survenant, lié dans l’imaginaire québécois, aux temps heureux d’un passé révolu. » Ainsi s’ouvre le présent ouvrage, dont l’objectif est d’éclairer l’œuvre entière de Germaine Guèvremont, aussi bien ses écrits journalistiques, encore très mal connus (environ cent cinquante articles et chroniques disséminés dans divers journaux et revues entre 1913 et 1962), que ses contes (En plein terre, 1942) et ses romans (Le Survenant, 1945 ; Marie-Didace, 1947), qui l’ont rendue célèbre, grâce en grande partie à la télévision. Les rapports qu’entretiennent ces deux aspects de son œuvre révèlent une facette jusqu’ici insoupçonnée de la personnalité de la romancière, aux prises avec un complexe d’Œdipe jamais entièrement résorbé. Ainsi s’explique que toute sa vie Germaine Guèvremont ait été tentée par l’autobiographie, toute son œuvre, y compris Le Survenant et Marie-Didace, s’apparentant à une thérapie.

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Bien des projets de développement international visent actuellement les femmes. Mais la multitude de ces petits projets soi-disant générateurs de revenues les aident-elles vraiment ? Pour évaluer la pertinence et l’impact de ces politiques, Marie France Labrecque prend en exemple une région andine de la Colombie, La Cocha. À l’aide d’une méthodologie d’anthropologie socioculturelle, elle démontre que les changements sociaux les plus importants ne s’effectuent pas seulement dans les rapports entre hommes et femmes mais aussi entre les générations. L’auteure procède à une analyse minutieuse de la division du travail dans les activités principales auxquelles se livrent les hommes, les femmes, les adultes et les enfants. Elle présente aussi les trajectoires individuelles de femmes appartenant à différentes générations et décrit leur niveau d’insertion dans le travail et dans le développement. Enfin, elle se penche sur les organisations communautaires, leur implication dans la région pour tenter d’évaluer leur influence sur le changement des structures sociales, de la vie quotidienne tant pour les individus que pour la collectivité.

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Cet ouvrage jette un nouvel éclairage sur une période particulièrement fertile de l’histoire de la traduction, qui s’étend sur les XIIe siècles en Espagne. C’est au cours de cette période que le savoir scientifique et philosophique des Grecs, revu et corrigé par les Arabes, est transmis aux Occidentaux. Clara Foz remet en question l’idée communément admise que l’École de Tolède formerait une entreprise unique. Son analyse révèle plutôt l’existence de deux mouvements de traduction, l’un commandité par l’Église, au XIIᵉ siècle, l’autre par le roi Alphonse X, le Sage, au XIIIe siècle. L’auteur fait d’abord état de pratiques qui avaient cours à l’époque pour la traduction, puis elle fait ressortir les enjeux politiques et culturels sous-jacents. Que traduit-on ? Pourquoi traduit-on ? Quels sont les modes de collaboration entre traducteurs ? Quels sont les rapports qui unissent les traducteurs à leurs commanditaires ?

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Francophonies d’Amérique propose dans ce numéro, intitulé Les mots du marché: l’inscription de la francophonie canadienne dans la nouvelle économie, un ensemble de textes résultant de travaux de recherche menés en équipe sur les nouveaux défis auxquels les communautés francophones doivent faire face. Le poids démographique de la francophonie canadienne est en continuel déclin, mais ce fait ne constitue certes qu’un aspect de la réalité. Il reste cependant que les impératifs du développement économique, dont l’urbanisation et la culture technico-scientifique, favorisent l’unilinguisme au profit de la langue dominante, l’anglais. Or, la langue est le plus puissant facteur d’appartenance identitaire et sociale, et une langue dominée devient source de conflit dans une situation de cohabitation linguistique inégale. Ce numéro, qui réunit des chercheurs acadiens, québécois, ontariens, manitobain, albertain et français, a été dirigé par Monica Heller et Mireille McLaughlin de l’Université de Toronto, Patricia Lamarre de l’Université de Montréal et Mélanie LeBlanc de l’Université de Moncton.

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La violence et la peur font tellement partie de nos vies que, parfois, elles se confondent avec elles. Elles s’insinuent aussi bien dans le social que dans l’individuel et déterminent l’histoire de l’un et de l’autre. Le crime, quant à lui, semble d’être devenu un acte privilégié non seulement pour dire la violence, mais aussi pour vivre la peur. Le criminel, à cet égard, a parfois pour fonction de permettre de défini son contraire, l’individu de bonne réputation. L’époque actuelle favorise un individualisme d’un genre nouveau : la personne menacée de toutes parts tente de se protéger en démonisant un groupe particulier. Heureusement, le monde d’aujourd’hui produit aussi des individus qui, du fait de l’affaissement des valeurs anciennes, se montrent plus tolérants à l’égard des autres.

Cette acceptation d’autrui fait obstacles à certaines formes de violence et favorise la non-violence. Le présent ouvrage nous conduit à examiner quels sens revêtent la violence, la peur et le crime et quels sont leurs rapports mutuels. Il s’adresse à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la justice pénale et sociale. Il fait ressortir certains problèmes et indique certains moyens permettant de résoudre les conflits, y compris ceux vécus par l’exclu. Il touche les pratiques sociales et les personnes appelées à les gérer, à assurer la sécurité et à éliminer la peur. Il est d’un grand intérêt pour les criminologues, travailleurs sociaux, psychologues, éducateurs, sociologues et politicologues.

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Cet ouvrage propose une incursion dans le monde de la cour pontificale et des cours cardinalices au XVIe siècle. En quoi consistait ce monde, qui en faisait partie, comment y entrait-on, quels avantages pouvait-on espérer en tirer et pourquoi était-on à ce point attiré par lui? Autant de questions auxquelles l'ouvrage cherche à répondre à partir de nombreux documents d'époque, documents souvent peu connus ou peu exploités : des rôles de cour, des livres de comptes, des registres de salaires, des cérémonials, des correspondances inédites et des traités qui leur sont contemporains. Ces multiples regards sur un monde encore mal connu, sur les personnages, grands et petits, qui en font partie, y trouvant pour la plupart profit et intérêt pour eux-mêmes et leur famille, permettent de comprendre pourquoi la cour pontificale faisait l'admiration, puis surtout l'envie de tant de contemporains qui étaient prêts à tout pour y accéder.

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Depuis la fondation du premier hôpital par les Augustines en 1637, les infirmières ont grandement contribué à la qualité de vie des Canadiens. Des sages-femmes à l'aube de l'histoire du pays aux infirmières du réseau public de santé contemporain, des postes éloignés nordiques aux champs de bataille en Europe, Sans Frontières dépeint les épreuves, les défis et les réalisations des infirmières canadiennes sur une période de quatre siècles.
Documentée et écrite par des infirmières et des historiennes, cette œuvre unique rassemble en un seul volume un vaste éventail de recherches. Quatorze chapitres et 28 vignettes, superbement rehaussés de photographies et d'illustrations d'archives, composent cet impressionnant portrait du nursing canadien.
Sans Frontières est un ouvrage fascinant des indispensable pour les infirmières, les férus d'histoire, et toute personne dont la vie a été touchée par une infirmière.
Également disponible en anglais : On All Frontiers: Four C penturies of Canadian Nursing

Le mot littératie désigne l'ensemble des connaissances nécessaires à la lecture et à l'écriture. Nouveau en éducation, le concept des littératies multiples reflète notre ère de la mondialisation, où lire et écrire ne sont plus confinés à l'imprimé. Il s'agit de parler, de lire, d'écrire et de valoriser les réalités de la vie dans la multiplicité et la complexité, c'est-à-dire lire, se lire et lire le monde tout en tenant compte du visuel, de l'oral, de l'écrit, du tactile et de l'hypermédiatique. Ce recueil remet en question la culture de l'écrit et aborde les diverses dimensions des littératies multiples par rapport aux mathématiques, à la musique, aux sciences et à la santé, et ce, pour les enfants, les adolescents et les adultes en milieu minoritaire. Il s'adresse aux chercheurs, aux praticiens, aux intervenants et aux organismes gouvernementaux et communautaires qui doivent comprendre comment les minorités linguistiques lisent au 21e siècle.

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Plusieurs recherches et approches novatrices en matière de formation et de développement professionnel des enseignants dans le domaine des sciences, de la technologie et des mathématiques cherchent actuellement à travailler à partir des acteurs, dont les enseignants ou les élèves. Le présent ouvrage témoigne de cette nouvelle approche par la mise en commun d’exemples de formations et de développement professionnel provenant du Canada, de la Belgique et de la France. Les auteurs donnent des descriptions détaillées de démarches et de modèles de formation ainsi que des résultats de recherche éclairants en matière de retombées et de pistes de développement. Par la mise en commun d’exemples internationaux, cet ouvrage intéressera tout intervenant concerné par la formation et le développement professionnel des enseignants dans le domaine des sciences, de la technologie et des mathématiques.

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C’est dans un numéro du printemps que sont publiés les textes abordant le thème du colloque « Langues officielles et dualité linguistique : structuration de la recherche et partenariats ». Organisé par le Réseau de la recherche sur la francophonie canadienne, ce colloque a eu lieu au printemps 2006 à l’Université McGill, dans le cadre du congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS). Ce thème est certes d’actualité puisqu’il coïncide avec le dévoilement du deuxième Plan d’action pour les langues officielles du gouvernement fédéral. Ce numéro offre une sélection de six textes présentés dans le cadre de ce colloque. Tous les articles évoquent d’une manière ou d’une autre des réalités liées aux langues officielles, aux responsabilités et aux rôles des gouvernements ainsi qu’à l’importance d’une recherche universitaire engagée.

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Ce numéro 28 de Francophonies d’Amérique est le fruit d’une riche collaboration avec l’Institut canadien de recherche sur les minorités linguistiques (ICRML) et son directeur, Rodrigue Landry. Un tel collectif sur la santé, résultat du travail de l’ICRML, est une véritable mise en chantier de la recherche dans un domaine de pointe où, en ce qui concerne les francophonies minoritaires au Canada, tout ne fait que commencer. Nous espérons que les recommandations qui y sont faites donneront lieu, bien au-delà de ces pages, à des politiques publiques concrètes et durables. Un tel collectif sur la santé, résultat du travail de l’ICRML, est une véritable mise en chantier de la recherche dans un domaine de pointe où, en ce qui concerne les francophonies minoritaires au Canada, tout ne fait que commencer.

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Francophonies d’Amérique est une revue pluridisciplinaire destinée à servir de forum aux universitaires francophones qui œuvrent en milieu minoritaire. Elle crée un réseau d’information et d’échanges culturels entre les communautés francophones hors Québec dont l’isolement est à la mesure du continent nord-américain. L’Ontario, l’Acadie, l’Ouest canadien et les États-Unis y sont représentés. Les diverses facettes de la vie française dans ces régions font l’objet d’analyses et d’études à la fois savantes et accessibles à un public qui s’intéresse aux « parlants français » en Amérique du Nord. On y retrouve aussi la liste des publications récentes en langue française issues de ces collectivités ou portant sur les « minorités ».

Francophonies d’Amérique constitue à la fois un outil de travail indispensable à toute personne qui fait des recherches sur les francophones vivant en situation minoritaire et une source de renseignements des plus utiles pour quiconque s’intéresse à la francophonie nord-américaine hors Québec.

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La notion d’espace rural est une notion floue. L’espace rural n’est plus seulement un espace agricole, ni un monde replié sur lui-même; l’espace rural est maintenant ouvert sur le monde. Les valeurs traditionnelles de la ruralité ont profondément évolué; les comportements ruraux se transforment et s’ajustent à l’urbanisation ambiante, fortement médiatisée. Les modernités de la ruralité créent une dynamique spatiale qui s’inscrit dans la complémentarité ville-campagne. Du point de vue des communautés rurales, leurs aspirations sont elles aussi ouvertes sur le monde, sur le potentiel d’un monde en mouvement, tout en misant sur le développement local, l’investissement de ressources économiques, l’innovation technologique et la valorisation des ressources humaines. Les contours de la ruralité changent. Or, l’espace rural francophone où vivent des minorités fait face effectivement à plusieurs changements simultanés, voire des défis qui peuvent paraître colossaux : déclin démographique, exode des jeunes, vieillissement de la population, exploitation des ressources naturelles en perte de vitesse, activités économiques au ralenti.

À l’instar de la population canadienne et mondiale, les francophones s’urbanisent de plus en plus; les régions rurales où souvent les francophones se retrouvent entre eux, majoritaires dans leur village ou leur petite ville, ne jouent plus le même rôle traditionnel en tant que territoire protecteur de la survie linguistique pour l’ensemble de la collectivité francophone. Qu’advient-il alors de l’espace rural francophone? Les textes retenus pour ce numéro thématique proposent divers angles d’étude. Il semble en effet pertinent que des solutions soient envisagées, telles que le nouveau projet de communautés rurales au Nouveau-Brunswick et la promotion de l’entrepreneuriat chez les jeunes diplômés universitaires. D’autres études s’intéressent à des réalités différentes, dont les relations entre les écoles françaises hors Québec et leur communauté, l’usage d’Internet par les élèves francophones du nord-est de l’Ontario ou encore la vitalité de la langue française tant dans la Basse-Côte-Nord qu’au Nunavik et en Nouvelle-Angleterre.

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Il peut paraître étonnant d’évoquer la notion de liberté en matière d’apprentissage. Celle-ci ne fait-elle pas partie intégrante de nos systèmes de valeurs ? Si la fin du XIXe siècle a été témoin de la lutte des femmes pour l’accès à l’éducation, le XXIe siècle s’annonce comme celui où les notions de pluralité, de diversité et d’accroissement continu occuperont la première place. Liberté d’apprendre, certes, mais de quelle manière ? La recherche sur les femmes en milieu universitaire montre que leur expérience est parfois aliénante. Dans cet ouvrage, Jeannine M. Ouellette révèle que le malaise vient de ce que l’apprentissage est détaché de la vie d’apprenante. Ainsi, le « autrement » se rapporte à l’intégration de l’expérience des femmes dans le projet d’apprentissage.

La « liberté » devrait être celle de rechercher dans le milieu d’apprentissage les moyens de mettre au jour les connaissances qui proviennent de l’expérience des femmes. Les personnes en situation de formation feraient leur profit d’une démarche qui reconnaîtrait leur contribution personnelle. Pour bien des femmes, il est particulièrement utile de mettre leur expérience en rapport avec les connaissances transmises, car les réalités qu’elles vivent sont parfois occultées par un système axé sur des préoccupations essentiellement masculines. Tenant compte du développement du moi, de la parole et de la pensée des femmes, l’auteure plaide en faveur d’une méthodologie de l’enseignement qui peut rendre l’expérience universitaire plus satisfaisante pour les femmes, d’une part, et soutenir leur démarche de croissance personnelle, d’autre part.

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L’Union catholiques des fermières de la province d’Ontario, connue aujourd’hui sous le nom de l’Union culturelle des Franco-Ontariennes, est, depuis soixante ans, très active dans les milieux francophones ontariens. Dans cet ouvrage, Estelle Huneault a étudié un domaine peu exploré concernant les circonstances qui ont amené les femmes rurales franco-ontariennes des années trente à se regrouper dans une association autonome, francophone et catholique. Elle a brillamment démontré que les luttes de pouvoir entre la hiérarchie catholique et les dirigeants de l’État québécois ont eu des répercussions sur l’organisation et sur les orientations qui ont été prises par l’Union catholique des fermières en Ontario, association fondée en vue de favoriser l’émancipation de cette catégorie des femmes. Adoptant une approche féministe matérialiste, l’analyse de l’auteure a permis de constater que les pouvoirs étatiques et ecclésiastiques se sont approprié le mouvement des femmes rurales franco-ontariennes pour en faire une organisation répondant à leurs conceptions du rôle des femmes dans la société.

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Les trajectoires familiales et professionnelles suivies par les femmes gestionnaires sont multiples. Plusieurs d’entre elles ont dû subir les effets préjudiciables des rapports sociaux de sexe. Certaines ont su recueillir l’héritage culturel de leur mère, et la plupart ont tenu à faire des études poussées et voulu se ménager une vie personnelle moins contraignante en termes de responsabilités familiales et conjugales. Elles ont par ailleurs bénéficié d’une conjoncture socio-politique favorable à l’avancement des femmes : création de programmes d’équité en matière d’emploi, scolarisation en masse, présence croissante des femmes dans la fonction publique et l’entreprise privée. Dans leur vie professionnelle, les femmes de carrière ont manifesté une prédilection pour des occupations leur permettant de s’accomplir pleinement. Plusieurs d’entre elles ont choisi de défendre un point de vue féministe au travail et ont tablé, pour ce faire, sur la présence de plus en plus forte des femmes. Ouvrage arrivant à point nommé et bien étoffé, Femmes de carrière, carrières des femmes ouvre des perspectives nouvelles pour l’étude d’une réalité sociale qu’il est impossible de passer sous silence.

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