Overlooking Saskatchewan

Edited by Randal Rogers, & Christine Ramsay
Categories:
Regional Studies

General

When Canadians think of Saskatchewan—if they think of it at all—they think "flat and boring," a place to drive through or fly over, a gap between the bigger cities to the east and west.

Yet thanks ...

Reinvesting in Families

Edited by Dorothy Badry, Don Fuchs, Sharon McKay, & H. Monty Montgomery
Categories:
Social Work

Children's Studies

Series Voices from the Prairies

Reinvesting in Families is the fourth in this series of child welfare books featuring voices from the prairies. This book is a collection of critical knowledge, issues and research in Canada related to ...

Settling Saskatchewan

By Alan B. Anderson
Categories:
General

Emigration & Immigration

General

Series CPS

Who are these trailblazers, these mavericks and innovators?

They are survivors, who are rich in customs and traditions. They are prosperous, and they are diverse--leading the world on many fronts.

Who are ...

Out Spoken

By Wes D. Pearce, & Jean Hillabold
Categories:
Gender Studies

Gay Studies

Series UR

How is identity formed? If you were born in Canada, that makes you Canadian; if you were raised Jewish, that makes you a Jew, right? But what about a teenage boy from small town Saskatchewan who has a ...

Defying Palliser

By Jim Warren, & Harry Diaz
Categories:
Agribusiness

Agriculture & Food

Sustainable Development

Series CPR

After travelling through the Canadian prairies in the 1850s, British adventurer John Palliser deemed a large portion of the region to be a near desert and unfit for agriculture. That reportedly disadvantaged ...

Awakening the Spirit

Edited by Don Fuchs, Sharon McKay, & Ivan Brown
Foreword by Cindy Blackstock
Categories:
Children's Studies

Disease & Health Issues

Marriage & Family

Series Voices from the Prairies

This is the third book in an exciting series of child welfare books that features voices from the prairies. Child welfare is ultimately about the well-being of vulnerable children and families, and ...

Human Ecology of the Canadian Prairie Ecozone 11,000 to 300 BP

Edited by B.A. Nicholson
Categories:
Archaeology

Human Geography

General

Series CPS

The Canadian Prairie Ecozone (CPE) is spatially defined by the foothills of Alberta on the west and the boreal forest/parkland interface on the north and the east. As members of the multidisciplinary ...

Redistributing Health

Edited by Tom McIntosh, Bonnie Jeffery, & Nazeem Muhajarine
Categories:
Disease & Health Issues

Essays

Series CPP

When Canadians think about health, they almost always start with health care--access to a doctor, to a hospital or to advanced technologies like MRI machines. When asked about what makes them healthy, ...

Torn from Our Midst

Edited by A. Brenda Anderson, Wendee Kubik, & Mary Rucklos Hampton
Categories:
Non-classifiable

Women's Studies

Violence In Society

Series Canadian Plains Proceedings(CPP)

The anger, grief, courage, compassion, and hope we hear in these voices inspire and compel us--to remember those who are missing and to work for healing and justice.

-Since 1980, more than 520 Aboriginal ...

"I Thought Pocahontas Was a Movie"

Edited by James McNinch, & Carol Schick
Categories:
Social Work

Minority Studies

Indigenous Studies

Series University of Regina Publications(UR)

A significant contribution to the understanding of systemic racism in Canadian institutions, this collection of essays arising out of the unique Prairie context interrogates how professionals practicing ...