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Eight posts on Winnipeg's Great War
Jim Blanchard spoke to a class of Creative Communications journalism majors at Red River College yesterday. Here are eight blog posts about Jim, his book, and the role of journalism in documenting history from some of those students.
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On the nomination process
The appropriate balance between local autonomy and central control in the nomination process has long been contentious. In recent years, however, the high-profile nominations of Michael Ignatieff, Rob Anders and Robert Sopuck (among others) have suggested that the balance of power is increasingly tilting towards the party brass.
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Battle of the Somme
In my book, I talk about the 28th Battalion from Regina moving into the area of the Somme in September 1916. I write on page 163 that “Arriving in Picardy, they were impressed by the ‘wide open fields without hedges or trees, slightly rolling and no high hills,’ which reminded them of the landscape back home in Western Canada.” I was wondering whether this was actually true, so this past summer I checked it out in a tour of the Somme battlefield.
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Immigrant Letters and the Experience of Migration
Here is an article from Minnesota Public Radio on a new letters project that I am working on with Donna Gabbacia from the University of Minnesota. Within the next few months, we will begin an ambitious effort to match letters scattered in archives around the world, uniting letters between mothers and sons, husbands and wives, and brothers and sisters. For now, the project’s site displays 40 letters written by eight immigrants and their families from 1850 to 1970.
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Interview with Curtis Brown
Former Sun journalist edits book focusing on Manitoba politics
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Fan identity, format shift, and the exploitation film
I’m currently at work on formulating some early ideas about my Ph.D. dissertation topic, which I should begin developing in more detail next year. This project will tentatively examine how cultural memory operates in contemporary fan cultures focused upon the remediation of exploitation films.
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Mexico-Canada dialogue on First Peoples
I just returned from Mexico City where a Mexico-Canada “Dialogue on First Peoples” was held in honour of Mexico’s Bicentennial of Independence. Mexican authorities are looking for a renewed relationship with Indigenous Peoples, and are looking towards Canada as a model to emulate in terms of Indigenous self-determination and higher education.
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Anthony Apakark Thrasher and environmental kinship
In a Calgary prison while awaiting trial for murder in the early 1970s, Inuvialuit writer Anthony Apakark Thrasher declared, “if the Arctic coast was made of solid mineral of economical value, the Eskimo people would be pushed right into the ocean to get what is under his feet.” Thrasher’s haunting prison writings offer a multi-genre tour de force that interweaves the author’s life story with traditional Inuvialuit tales, dream sequences, poetry, and critical commentary on politics, economics, and spirituality. His writings also adeptly diagnose the relationship among environmental responsibility, social justice, and kinship relations in the North.
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Recent interview the MacMillan Company
I’m currently preparing a SSHRC-funded history of the Macmillan Company of Canada, 1905-1986, which I discussed with Nigel Beale in an interview this past summer.
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Literature in the Digital Age
Working in French-Canadian literary criticism at Waterloo, I was delighted to discover in York University’s Archives a small treasure trove letters exchanged between Gabrielle Roy and Margaret Laurence, two Manitobans who became giants of French and English Canadian literature respectively. Most letters had never seen the light of day.
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Panel to study improving education for First Nations
As reported in today’s Winnipeg Free Press, Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan announced Thursday he will appoint a panel of education experts to meet over the next several months and report back to him with recommendations. The panel will deliver a report with various options by the middle of 2011, Duncan said, and the options can even include possible legislation.
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U of M Press launches new web site
Welcome to the new University of Manitoba Press web site! We hope you’ll stay a while and check out all the new features!