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    Reflections of Canada (Vancouver, B.C.)
    Reflections of Canada : illuminating our opportunities and challenges at 150+ years / edited by Phillipe Tortell, Margot Young, and Peter Nemetz.

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    • Title:[Reflections of Canada (Vancouver, B.C.)]
      Reflections of Canada : illuminating our opportunities and challenges at 150+ years / edited by Phillipe Tortell, Margot Young, and Peter Nemetz.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Nemetz, Peter N., 1944- editor.
      Young, Margot, editor.
      Tortell, Philippe Daniel, 1972- editor.
      Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, issuing body.
    • Published/Created:Vancouver, BC : Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, [2017]
      ©2017

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      • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at OKANAGAN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS storageWhere is this?
      • Call Number: FC95 .R42 2017
      • Number of Items:1
      • Status:Available
       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Canada--Civilization.
      Canada--History.
      Canada--Social conditions.
    • Genre/Form:Essays.
    • Description:309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
    • Summary:"Canada's leading writers, scholars, and public intellectuals peer into the country's past and future in the provocative essay collection published in the 150th year since Confederation. Reflections of Canada--intelligent, passionate, provocative--is a book with opinions as diverse as Canada. Leading thinkers take a stand on some of the most pressing issues facing Canada as it turns 150. Reflections of Canada inspires the reader to form her own opinions on subjects as big and thorny as health and aging, technological revolution, arts and culture, climate change and resource use, Aboriginal reconciliation, immigration and multiculturalism. The contributions are as diverse as their subjects: George Elliott Clarke has contributed an original poem; renowned political scientist Max Cameron an essay on democratic reform; and UBC Museum of Anthropology director Anthony Shelton a strongly worded opinion piece about the inequitable funding of arts institutions in this country. The written pieces are accompanied by provocative photographs selected from a national photo competition. Each piece explores how our understanding of critical issues has changed over the past 150 years, and includes a call to action for how we should grapple with them over the coming decades. A book of lively, respectful debate, Reflections of Canada reaffirms the place for public discussion of major societal questions."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9780888652676 (hardcover)
      0888652674 (hardcover)
    • Contents:Foreword / David Johnson, Governor-General of Canada
      Preface / Santa J. Ono, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia
      Introduction / Philippe Tortell
      Divers à dessein / George Eliliott Clarke
      Diverse by design / George Elliott Clarke
      Practising reconciliation / Jillian Harris, Alex Maass, and Andrew Martindale
      Anniversary reading / Sherrill Grace
      A greener future / Janis Sarra and Sally Aitken
      Better democracy / Maxwell Cameron
      Two stories / Margot Young and Ed Broadbent
      A quantum parable / Philip Stamp
      Welcome to the revolution / Kim Brooks
      Caring for health / Paul Allison, Jean Gray, Carol Herbert, Louise Nasmith, Christian Naus, Sioban Nelson, and Catharine Whiteside
      The future Arctic / Edward Struzik
      Medicare / Robert Evans
      Regarding China / Alexander Woodside and Diana Lary
      Our most precious resource / John Richardson, Hans Schreier, and Leila Harris
      Clearing the air / Chris Carlsten and Michael Brauer
      Un avenir confédéral / David Sanschagrin
      A confederal future / David Sanschagrin
      Hard of herring / Tony Pitcher, Mimi Lam, Matthias Kaiser, April (SG̱aana Jaad) White, and Evgeny Pakhomov
      Reclaiming the Tower of Babel / Linda Siegel, Judith Wiener, and Esther Geva
      Indigenous land and food / Dawn Morrison and Hannah Wittman
      Privacy and technology / Michael Vonn
      Museums and culture / Anthony Alan Shelton
      The future in the past / South Asian Canadian Histories Association (Naveen Girn, Anne Murphy, Raghavendra Rao K.V., Milan Singh, and Paneet Singh)
      Reimagining aging / Joanie Sims-Gould, Heather McKay, Anne Martin-Matthews, Deborah O'Connor, Laura Hurd Clarke, Alison Phinney, and Christiane Hoppmann
      Partnerships for conservation / Peter Arcese, Amanda Rodewald, Richard Schuster, Oscar Venter, and Joseph Bennett
      Hunger and poverty / Elaine Power
      Soft matter / Joseph Dahmen
      Audacity in international engagement / Marc-André Blanchard
      Arctic archipelago / Robie Macdonald and Mark Mallory
      Digital storytelling and reconciliation / Jan Hare, Ron Darvin, Liam Doherty, Margaret Early, Margot Filipenko, Bonny Norton, Darshan Soni, and Espen Stranger-Johannessen
      Quebec and Confederation / Philip Resnick
      The next energy transition / Walter Mérida
      Immigrant nation / David Ley
      Claiming the 21st century / David Carment and Joe Landry
      Fisheries and the world / William Cheung, Daniel Pauly, and Rashid Sumaila
      Second generation / Ayesha Chaudhry
      A carbon-constrained future / Kathryn Harrison and Sophie Harrison
      The hygiene hangover / Brett Finlay, Perry Kendall, and David Patrick
      Theatre, what's next? / George Belliveau, Tetsuro Shigematsu, and Jerry Wasserman
      Uplifting voices / Pam Brown, Jennifer Carpenter, Gerry Lawson, Kim Lawson, Lisa Nathan, and Mark Turin
      Again at the crossroads / Seth Klein
      Historical perspective on environmental change / Diane Srivastava, Jenny McCune, and Heike Lotze
      Through the Arctic looking glass / Eddy Carmack.
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