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Reflections of Canada : Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150+ Years / Peter Wall Institute.
De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2021 Part 1 Available
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peter Wall Institute, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.) : Approximately 45 colour photographs
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Canada’s leading writers, researchers, and public intellectuals peer into the country’s future in the provocative essay collection published in the 150th year since Conferderation. 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 change, arts and culture, climate change and resource use, Aboriginal reconciliation, and multiculturalism A book of lively, respectful debate, Reflections of Canada reaffirms the place for public discussion of major societal questions.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Divers à dessein
- Diverse by Design
- Practising Reconciliation
- Anniversary Reading
- A Greener Future
- Better Democracy
- Two Stories
- A Quantum Parable
- Welcome to the Revolution
- Caring for Health
- The Future Arctic
- Medicare
- Regarding China 中加關系
- Our Most Precious Resource
- Clearing the Air
- Un avenir confédéral
- A Confederal Future
- Hard of Herring
- Reclaiming the Tower of Babel
- Indigenous Land and Food
- Privacy and Technology
- Museums and Culture
- The Future in the Past
- Reimagining Aging
- Partnerships for Conservation
- Hunger and Poverty
- Soft Matter
- Audacity in International Engagement
- Arctic Archipelago
- Digital Storytelling and Reconciliation
- Quebec and Confederation
- The Next Energy Transition
- Immigrant Nation
- Claiming the 21st Century
- Fisheries and the World
- Second Generation
- A Carbon-Constrained Future
- The Hygiene Hangover
- Theatre, What’s Next?
- Uplifting Voices
- Again at the Crossroads
- Historical Perspective on Environmental Change
- Through the Arctic Looking Glass
- Notes
- Author Affiliations
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)
- ISBN:
- 1-7752766-4-3
- OCLC:
- 1394872710
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