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Citizens and government in Canada / by Hudak, Heather C.,1975-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Citizens and government -- The British North American Act -- Case study: the Meech Lake Accord -- Citizen profile: Elijah Harper -- Active citizenship: citizens and the Constitution -- Case study: The Charlottetown Accord -- Canadian government: a federal system -- The federal government -- Provincial governments -- Municipal governments -- The courts -- What is your viewpoint? -- Activity: take the citizenship challenge -- Testing what you have learned -- Further research -- Glossary -- Index.Discusses the structure of Canadian government, it's role in the lives of Canadians, and the role citizens play in governing Canada.
Subjects: Juvenile works.; Citizenship; Civics, Canadian; Citoyenneté; Civisme; Citizenship.; Civics, Canadian.; Politics and government;
© c2009., Weigl,
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The minority report : and other classic stories / by Dick, Philip K.,author.; Dick, Philip K.Short stories.Selections.; Tiptree, James, Jr.,1915-1987,writer of introduction.;
A collection of eighteen science fiction short stories features "The Minority Report," in which Commissioner John Anderton's clever use of "precogs," people who can identify criminals before they can do any harm, turns against him when they identify him as the next criminal.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Short stories.;
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An emergency in Ottawa : the story of the Convoy Commission / by Wells, Paul A.(Paul Allen),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."On Feb 14, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made what might be the most controversial decision of his tenure, invoking the Emergencies Act to end a three-week occupation of downtown Ottawa by truckers protesting mandatory COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Proclaimed in 1988, the Emergencies Act is designed to give federal officials extraordinary powers in the event of threats to Canada's national security that can't be managed under existing laws. Trudeau used it to make the protest illegal, freeze the accounts and cancel the vehicle insurance of participants, requisition tow trucks to clear protestors from the streets, among other measures. The government defended the first-ever invocation of the act as just and necessary; several premiers and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association called it an assault on democratic rights and civil liberties. As required by the act, Trudeau appointed a commission of inquiry into its use. Last November, justice Paul Rouleau held three weeks of riveting hearings that included testimony by so-called Freedom Convoy organizers, police officials, cabinet ministers, and Trudeau himself. Award-winning author Paul Wells was a regular visitor to the inquiry. Witnesses described layer on layer of dysfunction and acrimony in every organization that converged on Parliament Hill--three levels of government, three police forces, and the protesters themselves. How does a society make crucial decisions when everyone is exhausted, nothing works, and the noise from the truck horns and the shouting is deafening? And how do the protagonists regroup to make their case in the sterile, weird environment of a public inquiry? That's the story inside-a-story of the Emergency in Ottawa."--
Subjects: Canada.; Public Order Emergency Commission (Canada); Freedom Convoy (2022 : Ottawa, Ont.); Emergencies; Emergency management;
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First Nations, Métis, and Inuit governance / by Rose, Simon,1961-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.This book for young readers describes the three distinct communities of Indigenous Peoples living in Canada, their historical forms of governance, the purpose of the Indian Act passed by the federal government in 1876, and the organizations formed to represent and protect the rights of Indigenous People. It also discusses attempts to raise awareness of past injustices and ongoing challenges.LSC
Subjects: Native peoples; Native peoples;
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Nurse Jackie. [videorecording] / by Bernstein, Adam,1960-; Best, Eve,1971-; Facinelli, Peter,1973-; Falco, Edie.; Feig, Paul.; Schulze, Paul.; Taylor, Alan,1965-; Wever, Merritt.; Lions Gate Television (Firm); Lionsgate (Firm); Maple Pictures.;
Disc 1. Comfort food -- Twitter -- Candyland -- Apple bong.Disc 2. Caregiver -- Bleeding -- Silly string -- Monkey bits.Disc 3. P.O. box -- Sleeping dogs -- What the day brings -- Years of service.Edie Falco, Eve Best, Peter Facinelli, Paul Schulze, Merritt Weaver.Jackie Peyton is a drug-addicted emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital. For Jackie, every day is a high-wire act of juggling patients, doctors, fellow nurses, and her own indiscretions. In the second season Jackie struggles to keep up as a functioning addict, a loving wife and mother, and a first-class nurse.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation, 2.0 Dolby Digital, 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Chronic pain in women; Dark comedy television programs.; Hospitals; Hospitals; Medical television programs.; Nurses; Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2011., Lionsgate ; Distributed by Maple Pictures,
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The nightingale [videorecording] / by Claflin, Sam,1986-actor.; Kent, Jennifer(Film director),film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Franciosi, Aisling,1993-actor.; Ganambarr, Baykali,actor.; Herriman, Damon,1970-actor.; Sheasby, Michael,actor.; Mongrel Media,film distributor.;
Damon Herriman, Sam Claflin, Aisling Franciosi, Michael Sheasby, Baykali Ganambarr.Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Revenge; Irish; Rape; Women prisoners; Aboriginal Australians;
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The madwomen of Paris : a novel / by Epstein, Jennifer Cody,author.;
"A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as unlikely. Impossible, even, given how utterly her arrival would upend the already chaotic order of things at the Salpêtrière-not to mention change the course of my own life there." When Josephine arrives at the Salpêtrière she is covered in blood and badly bruised. Suffering from near-complete amnesia, she is diagnosed with what the Paris papers are calling "the epidemic of the age": hysteria. It is a disease so baffling and widespread that Doctor Jean-Martine Charcot, the asylum's famous director, devotes many of his popular public lectures to the malady. To Charcot's delight, Josephine also proves extraordinarily susceptible to hypnosis, the tool he uses to unlock hysteria's myriad (and often sensational) symptoms. Soon Charcot is regularly featuring Josephine on his stage, entrancing the young woman into fantastical acts and hallucinatory fits before enraptured audiences and eager newsmen-many of whom feature her on their paper's front pages. For Laure, a lonely asylum attendant assigned to Josephine's care, Charcot's diagnosis seems a godsend. A former hysteric herself, she knows better than most that life in the Salpêtrière's Hysteria Ward is far easier than in its dreaded Lunacy division, from which few inmates ever return. But as Josephine's fame as Charcot's "star hysteric" grows, her memory starts to return-and with it, images of a horrific crime she believes she's committed. Haunted by these visions, and helplessly trapped in Charcot's hypnotic web, she starts spiraling into actual insanity. Desperate to save the girl she has grown to love, Laure plots their escape from the Salpêtrière and its doctors. First, though, she must confirm whether Joséphine is actually a madwoman, soon to be consigned to the Salpêtrière's brutal Lunacy Ward-or a murderer, destined for the guillotine. Both are dark possibilities-but not nearly as dark as what Laure will unearth when she sets out to discover the truth"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Charcot, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893; Salpêtrière (Hospital); Hysteria; Mentally ill women; Psychiatric hospital patients; Psychiatric hospitals;
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Selma [videorecording] / by DuVernay, Ava,film director.; Ejogo, Carmen,1974-; Gooding, Cuba,Jr.,1968-; Oyelowo, David,actor.; Ribisi, Giovanni,1974-; Roth, Tim,actor.; Wilkinson, Tom,1948-; Winfrey, Oprah,actor.; Harpo Films,production company.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Plan B (Firm),production company.;
David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Cuba Gooding, Jr.Selma chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.); African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights movements; Civil rights; Feature films.; Historical films.; Race discrimination; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Voter registration;
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Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the Suffragettes / by Atkinson, Diane,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War, while the patriarchs of the Liberal and Tory parties vied for supremacy in parliament, the campaign for women's suffrage was fought with great flair and imagination in the public arena. Led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, the suffragettes and their actions would come to define protest movements for generations to come. From their marches on Parliament and 10 Downing Street, to the selling of their paper, Votes for Women, through to the more militant activities of the Women's Social and Political Union, whose slogan 'Deeds Not Words!' resided over bombed pillar-boxes, acts of arson and the slashing of great works of art, the women who participated in the movement endured police brutality, assault, imprisonment and force-feeding, all in the relentless pursuit of one goal: the right to vote. A hundred years on, Diane Atkinson celebrates the lives of the women who answered the call to 'Rise Up'; a richly diverse group that spanned the divides of class and country, women of all ages who were determined to fight for what had been so long denied. Actresses to mill-workers, teachers to doctors, seamstresses to scientists, clerks, boot-makers and sweated workers, Irish, Welsh, Scottish and English; a wealth of women's lives are brought together for the first time, in this meticulously researched, vividly rendered and truly defining biography of a movement.
Subjects: Suffragists; Women;
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Will do magic for small change : a novel of what might have been / by Hairston, Andrea,author.;
"Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she's always been theatrically challenged. That won't necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody is telling her the whole truth. Before her brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderer-a tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. They are a story of magic or alien science, but the connection to Cinnamon's past is unmistakable. When an act of violence wounds her family, Cinnamon and her theatre squad determine to solve the mysteries and bring her worlds crashing together"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Actors; Family secrets;
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