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The following is excerpted from In Twilight and in Dawn: A Biography of Diamond Jenness by Barnett Richling.
Great excitement marked the early weeks
of winter as the Inuit hurriedly prepared for the transition from their nomadic
existence on the land to the more settled life of … Read More >
The following is excerpted from the CBC News article Kenney's economic immigration changes praised, scorned
While some temporary workers, notably in Manitoba, have gained the help they need to transition to permanent residency, a new collection of essays written by Canadian academics, documents the … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Museum Pieces wins Ottawa Book Award
Pierre-Esprit Radisson excerpt
Michel Dorais awarded the Grand Prix du CQGL
Honouring Hugh MacLennan
What else?
Marlene Goldman (author of DisPossession) inspired blog post Ghosts and Haunting in Canadian Fiction
Reclaiming … Read More >
Ruth Phillips' Museum Pieces has won the 2012 Ottawa Book Award. The award recognizes the top English and French books published in the previous year.
A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness, Museum Pieces emphasizes the transformative power of … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings, Volume 1: The Voyages edited by Germaine Warkentin. In this first volume of Radisson's complete writings, Germaine Warkentin introduces the life, travels, motivations, and work of Radisson while providing a comprehensive and authoritative edition of his masterpiece – The Voyages. In the four accounts of … Read More >
Michel Dorais – author of Rent Boys: The World of Male Sex Trade Workers, Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys and Dead Boys Can't Dance: Sexual Orientation, Masculinity, and Suicide – was awarded the Grand Prix du CQGL (Conseil québécois des gais et lesbiennes) at Montreal’s 2012 Gala Arc-en-Ciel. The award honours those who have advanced the cause of gay … Read More >
The Montreal Writers’
Trust and The Church of St. James the Apostle invite you to the unveiling of a
plaque in honour of Hugh MacLennan on Friday, October 26th, 2012 at 6 p.m.
The Writers’ ChapelThe Church of St. James the Apostle1439 St. Catherine Street West
A reception will follow
For … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
The cultural work of Canadian hockey novels
Why we still need CIDA and foreign aid
P.K. Page biography sheds light on one of Canada’s great poets
Mike Babcock makes an appearance at the McGill Bookstore
The following is excerpted from The Gazette review of Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa.
In her later years, Page personally chose Djwa, now a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University, to serve as her biographer, which provided … Read More >
The following is excerpted from an article by Stephen Brown, author of Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid.
A risk of criticizing the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is that people will conclude that foreign aid is a waste of money … Read More >