Canada And Other Matters Of Opinion

Author : Rex Murphy
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307372482

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Canada and Other Matters of Opinion by Rex Murphy Pdf

A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man — a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week. Canada’s most distinctive commentator presents his fearless and thought-provoking views on a head-spinning range of subjects, from Dr. Johnson’s greatness to Bono’s gratingness, from doubts about Obama to utter belief in Don Cherry, from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s outstanding oeuvre to — well, Pamela Anderson. The topics are as eclectic and wide ranging as the intelligence that put them together. The perspective is thoroughly Canadian, and so are many of the recurring topics and themes: of our domestic politics and our military involvements abroad, of our national identity, of human rights and human decency. You’ll find assessments of the reputations of Paul Martin, Conrad Black, Adrienne Clarkson, and Tim Hortons; tough but affectionate views of Newfoundland — of course — but also from Rex Murphy’s constant travels across Canada. But all the world is here, in all its glory and folly. The hard-hitting attacks on politicians, celebrities, those who would ban smoking, and anyone who uses the expression “global warming denial” will have you cheering or tearing your hair out, depending. You will be informed, infuriated perhaps, but always fascinated.

Author : Rex Murphy
Publisher : M&S
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0771065272

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Points of View by Rex Murphy Pdf

His millions of fans will hear Rex's voice in every line of this wide-ranging selection Rex Murphy left his outpost home in Newfoundland to go to university at the age of 15. Since that time (including a spell at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar) he has been writing and talking. His skills in that area have made him Canada’s most-watched TV commentator – with an opinion spot on CBC-TV’s “The National” – while his speeches have earned standing ovations from coast to coast. And, always, his audience wants to know “When will you put this in a book?” The answer is “NOW.” Here, Rex has selected the best from thirty years of writing and speech-making – a variety that reveals the range of his mind. Here you’ll find tributes to people as apparently unlinked as Joey Smallwood and William Shakespeare; book reviews that turn into instructive essays about other places in other centuries; hard-hitting attacks on politicians and other malefactors that will have you cheering as you read; hilarious satires on human folly; and gentle memories of Newfoundland and its people. You will close this book with a sense of a wide-ranging intelligence and fascinating mind at work. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:49089791

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The Constitution Act, 1982 by Canada Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248265417

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A Consolidation of the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1982 by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Courtney,David Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195335354

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics by John Courtney,David Smith Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation that has occurred in Canadian politics since it acheived autonomy nearly a century ago, examining the institutions and processes of Canadian government and politics at the local, provincial and federal levels. It analyzes all aspects of the Canadian political system: the courts, elections, political parties, Parliament, the constitution, fiscal and political federalism, the diffusion of policies between regions, and various aspects of public policy.

Author : J. Doutre,Canada,Great Britain
Publisher : Lovell & Sons
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : CANADA CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY CASES
ISBN : HARVARD:HL3WGA

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Constitution of Canada : the British North America Act, 1867 : Its Interpretation, Gathered from the Decisions of Courts, the Dicta of Judges, and the Opinions of Statesmen and Others : to which is Added the Quebec Resolutions of 1864, and the Constitution of the United States by J. Doutre,Canada,Great Britain Pdf

"The British North America act, 1867, its interpretation, gathered from the decisions of courts, the dicta of judges, and the opinions of statesmen and others, to which is added The Quebec resolutions of 1864, and the constitution of the United States."--T.p.

Author : Richard Rumelt
Publisher : Currency
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307886231

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Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt Pdf

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.

Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509515189

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Media by Nick Couldry Pdf

From TV bulletins to social media newsfeeds, the media plays a massive role in shaping the world as we see it. In fact, different media have helped make possible our world of independent nations, binding together disparate communities through shared cultural touchstones, such as the press and national broadcasters. With the transfer of people’s lives to the online world, the media has become crucial to almost every aspect of how human beings live. A new social order is being built through our relations with media, but what power over us does this give to corporations and governments? Nick Couldry explains the significance of five core dimensions of media: representing, connecting, imagining, sharing and governing. He shows that understanding these dynamics is a vital skill that every person needs in the digital age, when the fate of our political worlds and social environment may rest on how we communicate with each other.

Author : Henry Forbes Angus
Publisher : Ryerson Press ; New Haven ; Yale University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015070278950

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Canada and Her Great Neighbor by Henry Forbes Angus Pdf

Author : Hugh Edward Egerton,William Lawson Grant
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781584776130

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Canadian Constitutional Development by Hugh Edward Egerton,William Lawson Grant Pdf

Author : Jeffrey L. McNairn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442639164

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The Capacity To Judge by Jeffrey L. McNairn Pdf

By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship between knowledge and power were jettisoned for a new image of Upper Canada as a deliberative democracy. The Capacity to Judge asks what made widespread public debate about common issues possible; why it came to be seen as desirable, even essential; and how it was integrated into Upper Canada's constitutional and social self-image. Drawing on an international body of literature indebted to Jürgen Habermas and based on extensive research in period newspapers, Jeffrey L. McNairn argues that voluntary associations and the press created a reading public capable of reasoning on matters of state, and that the dynamics of political conflict invested that public with final authority. He traces how contemporaries grappled with the consequences as they scrutinized parliamentary, republican and radical options for institutionalizing public opinion. The Capacity to Judge concludes with a case study of deliberative democracy in action that serves as a sustained defense of the type of intellectual history the book as a whole exemplifies.

Author : Janet Ajzenstat,Paul Romney,Ian Gentles,William D. Gairdner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487516703

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Canada's Founding Debates by Janet Ajzenstat,Paul Romney,Ian Gentles,William D. Gairdner Pdf

Canada's Founding Debates is about Confederation—about the process that brought together six out of the seven territories of British North America in the years 1864-73 to form a country called Canada. It presents excerpts from the debates on Confederation in all of the colonial parliaments from Newfoundland to British Columbia and in the constituent assembly of the Red River Colony. The voices of the powerful and those of lesser note mingle in impassioned debate on the pros and cons of creating or joining the new country, and in defining its nature. In short explanatory essays and provocative annotations, the editors sketch the historical context of the debates and draw out the significance of what was said. By organizing the debates thematically, they bring out the depth of the founders' concern for issues that are as vital today as they were then: the meaning of liberty, the merits of democracy, the best form of self-government, the tension between collective and individual rights, the rule of law, the requirements of political leadership, and, of course, the nature of Canadian nationality. Canada's Founding Debates offers a fresh and often surprising perspective on Canada's origins, history, and political character. Previously published by Stoddart Publishing, 1999.

Author : Joseph Doutre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015073441761

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Constitution of Canada by Joseph Doutre Pdf

"The British North America act, 1867, its interpretation, gathered from the decisions of courts, the dicta of judges, and the opinions of statesmen and others, to which is added The Quebec resolutions of 1864, and the constitution of the United States."--T.p.

Author : James Bickerton,Alain-G. Gagnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442607057

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Canadian Politics, Sixth Edition by James Bickerton,Alain-G. Gagnon Pdf

The sixth edition of Canadian Politics offers a comprehensive introduction to Canadian government and politics by a highly respected group of political scientists. For this edition, the editors have organized the book into six parts. Part I examines Canadian citizenship and political identities, while Parts II and III deal with Canadian political institutions, including Aboriginal governments, and contain new chapters on the public service and Quebec. Parts IV and V shift the focus to the political process, discussing issues pertaining to culture and values, parties and elections, media, groups, movements, gender, and diversity. The chapters on Parliament, bureaucracy, political culture, political communications, social movements, and media are new to this edition. Finally, three chapters in the last section of the book analyze components of Canadian politics that have been gaining prominence during the last decade: the effects of globalization, the shifting ground of Canadian-American relations, and the place of Canada in the changing world order. Of the 21 chapters in this edition, 9 are new and the remainder have been thoroughly revised and updated.

Author : Canada. Royal Commission to Inquire into Matters Connected with the Canadian Pacific Railway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Canadian Pacific Railway
ISBN : HARVARD:HB2LHD

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Report of the Canadian Pacific Railway Royal Commission by Canada. Royal Commission to Inquire into Matters Connected with the Canadian Pacific Railway Pdf