Depuis 1960, les relations entre le Québec et la francophonie canadienne n'ont pas cessé de s'effriter. En fait, la Révolution tranquille a apporté dans son sillage le renouvellement du discours identitaire au Canada français. Marcel Martel nous livre ici une fascinante étude historique et politique des rapports entre ces communautés de 1867 à 1975, année précédent l'élection du Parti Québécois. Faisant l'étude de quelques-uns des principaux catalyseurs tels l'Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, le ...

Drugs are part of every society, consumed for ritual or religious purposes, for pleasure, to enhance athletic performance, or as a means to relieve pain. Throughout the twentieth century, however, an arbitrary and shifting distinction was made between legal drugs that were prescribed and administered by the medical profession, and illegal drugs that were subject to state control and suppression.Illegal in Canada since 1923, marijuana is the most controversial of illegal drugs. Beca...

To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco industry, knowing it sells a deadly product? And what social responsibilities do investors bear with respect to compulsive gamblers who have lost so much money that suicide becomes an attractive option?Canada the Good considers more than five ...

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...

Plusieurs croient que le 1er juillet 1867 représente la date de la Confédération canadienne, le jour de la création du nouveau pays. Mais le processus ne faisait que s'amorcer en 1867. Du petit dominion aux frontières restreintes, le pays est devenu une fédération beaucoup plus grande, avec dix provinces, trois territoires, et des centaines de communautés autochtones. Les politiciens ont longtemps débattu le concept de pays; ils ont bien pesé les avantages et les inconvénients d'une adhési...

July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of First Nations, its leaders repeatedly debated Canada's purpose, and the benefits and drawbacks of the choice to be Canadian. Reconsidering Confederation brings together Canada's leading historians to explore how the provinces, territories, ...

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...

In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the "classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also scholarly works that capture the complexities of the Confederation project. This ambitious anthology challenges the notion that there exists one dominant nar...

Roads to Confederation surveys the way in which scholars from different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada. Recognizing that Confederation has been traditionally defined as a process affecting only British North America’s Anglophone and Francophone communities, Roads to Confederation offers a broader approach to the making of Canada, and includes scholarship written over 145 years.Volume 2 of this collection...

Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada’s Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacksa range ofviewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British colonies, and Indigenous peoples.Exploring perspectives from the Austro-Hungarian Empir...