Author: Adrian Mercer The North American Monetary Union (NAMU) is the title given to the concept of a shared currency arrangement that encompasses Canada, the United States, and Mexico.[1] From Canada’s perspective this proposal makes little sense on multiple fronts. Firstly, it would weaken Canada’s short and long-term economic standing. Secondly, it would undermine Canadian [...]
Author: James Janeiro The ability to ensure the safety and security of the entirety of a nation’s landmass is one of the most important and crucial components of national sovereignty. Without the ability to do so, the very notion of sovereignty is purely theoretical and academic, resting in the realm of political theory rather than [...]
Author: Kurt Beaten Aboriginal policy has fostered much political and academic debate over the past five decades. To understand better the outcome of Aboriginal policy, two analytical lenses can be used: institutional theory – stating that policy outcomes are the result of institutions existing within the political system, and ideational theory – [...]
Author: Sean Kuzniak | Course: POL214 | Professor: N. Wiseman From a purely constitutional standpoint, the simple answer to the question in the title of this paper is a resounding yes. Embedded within the Constitution Act of 1867 is a description of how Canada’s political system is to be structured, the key tenet of which is [...]
Author: Christyne Mathison | Course: UNI320 | Professor S. O’Flynn Rape and disappearance, the wild and threatening Canadian landscape and two heroines in the midst of this, telling their stories while ineffectively trying to heal the wounds inflicted from their individual traumatic experiences in the Canadian wilderness. Quite eloquently, Mavis Gallant and Margaret Atwood set [...]
Author: Michael L. Naraine | Course: POL341H | Professor S. Clarkson The preservation of Canadian culture amidst the great influence of American radio and television content has always been a difficult issue for Canadian cultural producers and policy makers. With the rapid spread of communications technology in the latter half of the 20th century and [...]
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Author: Emily Paskevics | Course: UNI320 | Professor S. O’Flynn In The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative, Thomas King outlines the nineteenth-century fascination with and fabrication of “the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the imaginary construct.”[i] These elaborations, King argues, reveal less about “authentic” Native identity than about a foundational “national fantasy,” or what [...]
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Author: Simon Borer | Course: UNI320 | Professor S. O’Flynn “Are cultural workers being asked to create a livable city, or a happening, overpriced hotspot for exurbanites and tourists, complete with glittering galleries and sparkling bars where artists’ multiples are sold at Holt Renfrew?” – A Suicide Site Guide to the City (O’Donnell 2006, 136) [...]
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Author: Aoife Quinn | Course: UNI220 | Professor S. O’Flynn The Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) has incorporated Aboriginal symbols and mythology into their promotional material for the 2010 Olympic Games. This has been accompanied by an action plan for Aboriginal participation in the Olympics, which includes significant financial contributions to Aboriginal nations in the Vancouver [...]
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Author: Anne McGee | Course: UNI320 | Professor S. O’Flynn Diana Thorneycroft’s series of photographs Group of Seven Awkward Moments and its position in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection reveal the tensions in Canada’s struggle to define itself. This struggle is reflected both in Thorneycroft’s photographs and within the Gallery as a whole. In the [...]
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