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Seeing Canada Whole
J.W. Pickersgill’s remarkable career at the centre of power in Ottawa as both civil servant and politician spanned four decades. Mr. Pickersgill tells his life's story (which almost spans the century) with a remarkable gift for detail, a shrewd grasp of what lies below the surface and a passionate commitment to the country in whose affairs he has been so influential a player.
ROAD BACK BY A LIBERAL IN OPPOSITION
The irrepressible Jack Pickersgill - sometime Liberal cabinet minister and party strategist, ever the bane of the Diefenbaker Tories - is back. This latest volume in his memoirs brims with an insider's special understandings of the workings of government and the personalities that drive it. It cover Pickersgill's years in opposition, from St Laurent's defeat at the hands of Diefenbaker in 1957 through to the election of a Liberal government under Lester Pearson six years later and Pickersgill's session as House Leader. With typical candour Pickersgill recalls the Liberals' scramble to establish themselves as an effective opposition. He freely admits their mistakes, including his own, and gle...
Discrimination and Denial
Champion sprinter Donovan Bailey said it, and this book confirms it. While racism may not be as blatant in Canada as in the United States, it does exist. Members of visible minority groups are discriminated against in employment, housing, and access to public services. The increasing visibility of hate groups and calls to restrict immigration mark the growing tension. Racist attitudes against Asians and Blacks, in particular, have seeped into the criminal justice system. Ironically, since 1960 it has been illegal in Ontario to track crime by race, making it difficult for researchers to collect data. The media, our primary source of information, has sensationalized crimes where minority group...
The Mackenzie King Record
Volume I of the Mackenzie King Record carried the story of Mackenzie King as wartime Prime Minister of Canada down to mid-1944. When Volume II begins he has just returned from important London meetings of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers during which he had addressed the combined Houses of Parliament at Westminster.
The Mackenzie King Record
In this volume, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada for 25 years, tells in his own words of his activities in public life and the events of the momentous years from 1939 to 1944, as recorded in his personal diary.
