Canada since 1960: A People's History: A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture

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Canada since 1960: A People's History: A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture

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Gonick, Cy (Editor)

Title

Canada since 1960: A People's History: A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture

Abstract

When Winnipeg's Cy Gonick started the magazine Canadian Dimension in 1963 to provide a home for the thinking and analysis of mostly young leftists engaged in Canadian economic, social, cultural, artistic and political issues, he had no grand plan. But Canadian Dimension was welcomed by intellectuals, scholars and students, and it proved enduring. Hundreds of Canada's leading figures of the left have contributed to its pages over the years, writing about every major topic in Canadian public life. This book offers an account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the sixties until today, as seen and interpreted by scholars and writers on the pages of Dimension. Each chapter reviews a major theme, such as Canada's relationship to the U.S., the development of our health care system, the dynamics of Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relations and the role of Canadian cultural work in shaping Canadian society. Taken together, the book provides a unique and broad perspective on virtually every significant event and development in recent Canadian history. Readers who know the magazine will find this book a compelling summary of how Canada changed in the past five decades, and how the Left saw those changes and challenged them. Readers who discover Canadian Dimension through this book will find a multitude of compelling voices who challenge the dominant neoliberal thinking of mainstream Canadian intellectual life. --Publisher's description.

Place

Toronto

Publisher

Lorimer

Date

2016

# of Pages

575 pages

Language

English

ISBN

978-1-4594-1113-5

Short Title

Canada Since 1960

URL

http://archive.org/details/canadasince1960p0000unse

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5/4/23, 3:43 PM

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Notes

Contents: Foreword / Mel Watkins -- Introduction: Keeping the spark alive / Cy Gonick -- The Canadian Dimenson / Cy Gonick -- Canada and the American empire / Joseph Roberts -- Balancing the claims of nation and of class: Fifty years of covering Quebec / Peter Graefe -- Fifty years in Indian country / Peter Kulchyski -- The green Dimension / Andrea Levy -- Natural resources and Canadian capitalism: The view from Canadian Dimension magazine / John W. Warnock -- Becoming ordinary: 50 years of arts and culture / Brenda Austin-Smith -- Fifty years of class struggle / Larry Haiven and Judy Haiven -- Rebelling youth: universities and students / James Naylor -- Canadian Dimension and the great Canadian health care debate / Arthur Schafer -- Crime and punishment: The more things change... / Evan Bowness and Elizabeth Comack -- Racism, human rights and immigration / Christopher Webb -- Revolution and imperialism: a North American internationalism / Henry Heller -- A journey from Israel to Palestine / Mordecai Briemberg -- Beyond economic nationalism: Clashes with Canadian capitalism / Greg Albo and Chris Bailey -- The home province: Canadian Dimension and Manitoba / Alvin Finkel -- Work and change in Atlantic Canada / Angela Day -- The "next year" province: Canadian Dimension and Saskatchewan / Jamse N. McCrorie -- Canadian Dimension and the "other" Ontario: Radical reportage through four transformative decades / Bryan Evans -- Canadian Dimension covers British Columbia: Power, promises and pulp fiction / Frank Tester -- Alberta / Trevor W. Harrison -- The urban Dimension / David Hugill -- The socialist Dimension / Bryan Palmer -- CD and feminism: chronicle of a movement defining itself / Stephanie Ross -- The personal Dimension / Dennis Pilon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-561) and index.

Citation

Gonick, C. (Ed.). (2016). Canada since 1960: A People’s History: A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture. Lorimer. http://archive.org/details/canadasince1960p0000unse

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