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The following is excerpted from Fragile Majorities and Education: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland, and Quebec by Marie McAndrew.
Since the
creation of Canada in 1867, and even before, school structures and ethnicity
have been closely associated in Quebec. The British North America Act (BNAA),
which made education the exclusive prerogative of the provinces, provided
protection … Read More >
The following is excerpted from George Fetherling’s The Writing Life: Journals, 1975-2005 is a surprising read
Which brings me to the biggest disadvantage of being Canadian. You practically have to destroy the planet to get anyone’s attention.
There are simply not enough of us. It’s nobody’s fault. It’s just the … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Finalists for the 2013 Canada Prizes announced
The Mirror of the Worlde book launch at Burford Priory, Oxfordshire
Elizabeth Tanfield Cary 1598 manuscript published
George Fetherling’s The Writing Life: Journals, 1975-2000
Peter Trent on The Merger Delusion
On Journey with No Maps: … Read More >
Celebrating the best Canadian
scholarly books across all the disciplines of the humanities and social
sciences, the Canada Prizes are awarded to books that make an exceptional
contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social,
cultural and intellectual life of Canada.
The following MQUP books are finalists for the 2013 Canada Prize in the Humanities.
The following is excerpted from an interview with Sandra Djwa author of Journey with No Maps: A Life P. K. Page:
Julie Wilson: You were approached directly by P. K. Page write this biography. I’m curious to know, how does P. K. Page ask someone to relay her life’s story?
Sandra Djwa: I think that choosing a … Read More >
The following is excerpted from the Maclean's article The life of P.K. Page: Exclusive excerpt from a new biography: A riveting portrait of an artist as a young — and old — woman:
When the respected scholar, author and critic Sandra Djwa embarked on Journey With No Maps: A Life of … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Who is P.K. Page?
P.K. Page with Margaret Atwood
Canadian Medicare: We Need It and We Can Keep It
Medicare news across Canada
Aging Population: Are We Facing a Coming Avalanche or Tsunami?
What else?
Goodreads vs Amazon
Judging … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Canadian Medicare: We Need It and We Can Keep It by Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom.
Medicare is more than laws and regulations. As the Romanow report
(2002) pointed out,
from the beginning medicare has been an expression of our care for one another.
As some other writers have … Read More >
The following is excerpted from the BC Studies review of Journey with No Maps by Sandra Djwa.
"Who am I," asks the narrator in an early poem, "Arras," by P.K. Page, “or, who am I become…?” (144). It’s a question Page was to return to many times, in both … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Sandra Djwa in the Huffington Post
Nuclear power in Alberta
The 2013 Book, Jacket, & Journal Show
To the Spring, by Night
What else?
Visit the Canadian Kobo Indie Store
Amazon and the used eBook business
Shatzkin Files: … Read More >