La région d’Ottawa-Gatineau a quelque chose d’unique. Traversée par la frontière provinciale qui a la plus forte charge symbolique au pays, elle se caractérise par une dynamique particulière. De part et d’autre de la frontière, les populations, les cultures et les pratiques sont différentes. D’aucuns investissent la région d’une mission particulière : contribuer à limiter les risques de dislocation du Canada en favorisant une territorialité transfrontalière des individus et des groupes pou...

Too many stakeholders have neglected their duty of imagining an aspiring federal capital region for Canada. Under the auspices of the Forum of Federations, a number of persons interested in the fate of Canada’s federal capital region came together to examine the challenges facing the region and to put forward suggestions to deal with them.In this report on the brainstorming exercise conducted in January 2011, professionals, academics, and elected officials take stock of the vast ar...

En février 1997, le gouvernement ontarien annonce la fermeture de l’Hôpital Montfort, le seul hôpital universitaire francophone de la province. L’onde de choc est immédiate et donne naissance sans tarder à SOS Montfort, organisme militant voué à la sauvegarde d’une institution jugée essentielle à la survie de l’Ontario français. En résulte un impressionnant mouvement de solidarité qui braque les projecteurs sur la question des minorités francophones à l’échelle pancanadienne.Sous l...

L’Association canadienne-française de l’Ontario (ACFO) a été le principal porte-parole politique de la collectivité franco-ontarienne au XXe siècle.Cette analyse historique en six chapitres chronologiques va de la fondation de l’Association canadienne-française d’éducation d’Ontario (ACFEO) en 1910 jusqu’à sa disparition et son absorption par l’Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario en 2006.De 1910 à 1927, l’Association joue un rôle déterminant dans la crise du Règlement...

Gilbert is one of the fastest growing communities in the country. There were only 500 residents when the town was incorporated in 1920. Since 1980, the population has doubled every five years. But how did this small desert community come to have such explosive growth in just over 30 years? Early pioneers began arriving in 1890, and in 1902, the Arizona Eastern Railway decided to build a rail line from Phoenix that went through Florence to the mining town of Kelvin. After purchasing land fr...

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to recognize and historicize women’s contributions to—and political uses of—comedy. The essays collec...

Creative Dance for All Ages, Second Edition, has had a long history of providing a dance curriculum to teachers and students preparing to teach creative dance. Author Anne Gilbert demystifies expectations when teaching creative dance and provides the theory, methods, and lesson ideas for success in a variety of settings and with students of all ages. This one-stop resource offers dance teachers everything they need, including a sequential curriculum, lesson plans, instructional st...

Provide quality creative dance experiences for students of all ages and abilities.With a long history as a leading resource for dance educators, Creative Dance for All Ages, Third Edition, is the research-backed tool every creative dance teacher needs. Internationally recognized master teacher and author Anne Green Gilbert presents creative dance for everyone and provides tips on meeting the challenges of teaching it.The updated third editi...

This is the long-awaited third edition of the bestselling book for patients on two mysterious and little-understood inflammatory conditions, polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis. They attack older people, PMR causing pain and stiffness that can massively affect mobility, and GCA causing irreversible damage to vision in cases that aren't diagnosed and treated in time. For both, standard treatment has been up to two years on steroid drugs (prednisolone or prednisone), and it is no...

In the enchanting world of high society and hidden desires, Gilbert Parsons and Frances Snowley embark on a journey of self-discovery and forbidden love.As they navigate through societal expectations and personal tragedies, their bond strengthens, defying the constraints of their class and upbringing. But as they confront manipulative forces and unforeseen obstacles, they must decide whether to follow their hearts or succumb to the pressures of their world.Will their love c...

Anne Green Gilbert’s Brain-Compatible Dance Education, Second Edition, strikes the perfect balance between hard science and practicality, making it an ideal resource for dance educators working with dancers of all ages and abilities.Gilbert presents the latest brain research and its implications for dance educators and dancers. She makes the research findings accessible and easy to digest, always connecting the science to the teaching and learning that takes place in class...

La sexologie clinique est une profession de soin qui se développe et se définit de plus en plus comme un champ à part des domaines desquels elle est issue.Depuis peu, les sociologues et les historiens des sciences s’intéressent même à la profession et à son histoire. Leurs travaux apportent un regard critique qui engage les cliniciens vers une attitude réflexive, remettant en question les diagnostics, situant nos conceptions théoriques dans un contexte historique et social. Cet ouv...