Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128993701
Canadian Commentator
Anonim
Canadian Commentator
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Canada and Other Matters of Opinion
Rex Murphy
Author : Rex Murphy
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307372482
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.
Rick Mercer Final Report
Rick Mercer
Author : Rick Mercer
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780385692496
Rick Mercer Final Report by Rick Mercer Pdf
Canada's pre-eminent satirical commentator brings down the curtain on his hugely successful show in this instant #1 national bestseller. Rick Mercer startled the nation when in 2017 he announced that the 15th season of Canada’s most-watched and beloved comedy show the Rick Mercer Report would be the last. As this book reminds us, he quit while he was way, way ahead. Final Report includes blisteringly good rants from the final five seasons and some of the very best rants from the show’s early years. And in three brilliant new essays that include a love letter to Parliament Buildings, how Doug Ford became Ontario premier (hint: it had nothing to do with talent) and how he managed not to freak out in the year after the RMR wrapped, Rick, a recipient of a 2019 Governor General’s Performing Arts Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award, reveals himself as a comic writer and entertainer at the very top of his game.
America Alone
Mark Steyn
Author : Mark Steyn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781596980761
America Alone by Mark Steyn Pdf
"Mark Steyn is a human sandblaster. This book provides a powerful, abrasive, high-velocity assault on encrusted layers of sugarcoating and whitewash over the threat of Islamic imperialism. Do we in the West have the will to prevail?" - MICHELLE MALKIN, New York Times bestselling author of Unhinged "Mark Steyn is the funniest writer now living. But don't be distracted by the brilliance of his jokes. They are the neon lights advertising a profound and sad insight: America is almost alone in resisting both the suicide of the West and the suicide bombing of radical Islamism." - JOHN O'SULLIVAN, editor at large, National Review IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT..... Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"--while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy. If you think this can't happen, you haven't been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steyn--the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking world--shows to devastating effect. The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world's last best hope. Mark Steyn's America Alone is laugh-out-loud funny--but it will also change the way you look at the world.
When the Gods Changed
Peter C. Newman
Author : Peter C. Newman
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307358288
When the Gods Changed by Peter C. Newman Pdf
Peter C. Newman, Canada's most "cussed and discussed" political journalist, on the death spiral of the Liberal Party. The May 2, 2011 federal election turned Canadian governance upside down and inside out. In his newest and possibly most controversial book, bestselling author Peter C. Newman argues that the Harper majority will alter Canada so much that we may have to change the country's name. But the most lasting impact of the Tory win will be the demise of the Liberal Party, which ruled Canada for seven of the last ten decades and literally made the country what it is. Newman chronicles, in bloody detail, the de-construction of the Grits' once unassailable fortress and anatomizes the ways in which the arrogance embedded in the Liberal genetic code slowly poisoned the party's progressive impulses. When the Gods Changed is the saga of a political self-immolation unequalled in Canadian history. It took Michael Ignatieff to light the match.
A Helluva Life in Hockey
Brian McFarlane
Author : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1770415440
A Helluva Life in Hockey by Brian McFarlane Pdf
A charming and nostalgic memoir by the former and much loved Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster, creator of Peter Puck, and beloved hockey author, Brian McFarlane.
Parkin
William Christian
Author : William Christian
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780978160036
Parkin by William Christian Pdf
George Parkin, born on a New Brunswick farm, died a knight of the realm and most famous Canadian in the world. As orator and journalist he strengthened bonds between English-speaking peoples. As principal of Upper Canada College and a founder of the Rhodes Scholarships he put formation of character above training the intellect.
Tragedy in the Commons
Alison Loat,Michael MacMillan
Author : Alison Loat,Michael MacMillan
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307361318
Tragedy in the Commons by Alison Loat,Michael MacMillan Pdf
In Tragedy in the Commons, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, founders of the non-partisan think tank Samara, draw on an astonishing eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada. Though Canada is at the top of international rankings of democracies, Canadians themselves increasingly don’t see politics as a way to solve society’s problems. Small wonder. In the news, they see grandstanding in the House of Commons and MPs pursuing agendas that don’t always make sense to the people who elected them. But elected officials make critical choices about how this wildly diverse country functions today and how it will thrive in the future. They direct billions of dollars in public funding and craft the laws that have allowed Canada to lead the way internationally. Even with so much at stake, citizens—voters—are turning away. How did one of the world’s most functional democracies go so very wrong? In Tragedy in the Commons, MPs describe arriving at their political careers almost by accident; few say they aspired to be in politics before it “happened” to them. In addition, almost without fail, each MP describes the tremendous influence of their political party: from the manipulation of the nomination process to enforced voting in the House and in committees, the unseen hand of the party dominates every aspect of the MP’s existence. Loat and MacMillan ask: Just what do we want Members of Parliament to be doing? To whom are they accountable? And should parties be trusted with the enormous power they wield with such little oversight or citizen involvement? With unprecedented access to the perspective and experience of Canada’s public leaders, Tragedy in the Commons concludes by offering solutions for improving the way politics works in Canada, and how all Canadians can reinvigorate a democracy that has lost its way, its purpose and the support of the public it is meant to serve.
A Helluva Life in Hockey
Brian McFarlane
Author : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781773056784
A Helluva Life in Hockey by Brian McFarlane Pdf
A captivating memoir from Canada’s foremost hockey historian and a beloved NHL commentator It’s been 85 years since Brian McFarlane first laced a pair of skates and tested the black ice on a tiny pond. And then he discovered the joy of hockey. Ultimately, there would be grade school hockey, high school hockey, junior hockey, college hockey, and, miraculously, two decades with the NHL Oldtimers anchoring his life. He was the rank amateur playing on a line with the Big M and Norm Ullman, facing off against icons like Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay at Maple Leaf Gardens — even scoring a goal. He suited up at the Montreal Forum, elbow-to-elbow against John Ferguson, before thousands of fans. (There was even a stint with the Flying Fathers who ordained him a “Bishop” after a hat trick.) Off the ice, in 1960, McFarlane was the first Canadian to be a commentator on CBS’s coverage of the NHL. He also survived 25 years of Hockey Night in Canada — despite confrontations with Punch Imlach, Harold Ballard, Bobby Hull, and Eddie Shack. Now, in this revealing autobiography, he remembers it all. For Brian McFarlane, it has been a helluva life in hockey.
Fights of Our Lives
John Duffy
Author : John Duffy
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Elections
ISBN : 0006391508
Fights of Our Lives by John Duffy Pdf
Conflicting Visions
Ryan Touhey
Author : Ryan Touhey
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774829038
Conflicting Visions by Ryan Touhey Pdf
In 1974, India shocked the world by detonating a nuclear device. In the diplomatic controversy that ensued, the Canadian government expressed outrage that India had extracted plutonium from a Canadian reactor donated only for peaceful purposes. In the aftermath, relations between the two nations cooled considerably. As Conflicting Visions reveals, Canada and India’s relationship was turbulent long before the first bomb blast. Canada’s expectations of how the former British colony would behave following its independence in 1947 led to a series of misperceptions and miscommunications that strained bilateral relations for decades.
Points of View
Rex Murphy
Author : Rex Murphy
Publisher : M&S
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0771065272
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.
The Longer I'm Prime Minister
Paul Wells
Author : Paul Wells
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307361349
The Longer I'm Prime Minister by Paul Wells Pdf
WINNER 2014 – Ottawa Book Award for Non-Fiction The definitive portrait of Stephen Harper in power by this country’s most trenchant, influential and surprising political commentator. Oh, he won, but he won’t last. Oh, he may win again but he won’t get a majority. Oh, his trick bag is emptying fast, the ads are backfiring, the people are onto him, and soon his own party will turn on him. And let me tell you, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy . . . Despite a constant barrage of outrage and disbelief from his detractors, Stephen Harper is on his way to becoming one of Canada’s most significant prime ministers. He has already been in power longer than Lester B. Pearson and John Diefenbaker. By 2015, and the end of this majority term, he’ll have caught up to Brian Mulroney. No matter the ups and downs, the triumphs and the self-inflicted wounds, Harper has been moving to build the Canada he wants—the Canada a significant proportion of Canadian voters want or they wouldn’t have elected him three times. As Wells writes, “He could not win elections without widespread support in the land. . . . Which suggests that Harper has what every successful federal leader has needed to survive over a long stretch of time: a superior understanding of Canada.” In The Longer I’m Prime Minister, Paul Wells explores just what Harper’s understanding of Canada is, and who he speaks for in the national conversation. He explains Harper not only to Harper supporters but also to readers who can’t believe he is still Canada’s prime minister. In this authoritative, engaging and sometimes deeply critical account of the man, Paul Wells also brings us an illuminating portrait of Canadian democracy: “glorious, a little dented, and free.”
Welcome to the Broadcast
Don Newman
Author : Don Newman
Publisher : Phyllis Bruce Books
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Broadcasters
ISBN : 1443416827
Welcome to the Broadcast by Don Newman Pdf
Journalist and broadcaster Don Newman writes about his many decades reporting on Canadian and international politics.
Debating Rights Inflation in Canada
Dominique Clément
Author : Dominique Clément
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771122764
Debating Rights Inflation in Canada by Dominique Clément Pdf
Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that whereas framing grievances as human rights violations has become an effective strategy, the increasing appropriation of rights-talk to frame any and all grievances undermines attempts to address systemic social problems. His argument is followed by commentator response from several leading human rights scholars and practitioners in Canada and abroad who bridge the divide between academia, public policy, and practice.
