Inroads: A Journal of Opinion articles from January 1 2001

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion archives from January 1 2001

Introducing Inroads to.(magazine)
January 1, 2001... OUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY -- ALREADY. INROADS, TO OUR SOMETIMES SURPRISE, HAS survived for a decade. But we're not resting on our laurels. Continuing our effort to make inroads into the solitudes that divide Canadians, Inroads 10 presents several...

Protests, interest in politics and democracy in the information age.
January 1, 2001... WHAT IF WE HELD AN ELECTION AND NO ONE CAME? THAT'S NOT QUITE what happened in last November's federal election, but, disturbingly, fewer than 60 per cent of potential voters made it to the polls. In early spring, a highly publicized...

"Reserves are only good for some people".(aboriginals in Canada)
January 1, 2001... NO OTHER GROUP OF CANADIANS EXPERIENCES SUCH HIGH RATES OF POVERTY, as much family and community distress, as do Aboriginals. We deserve criticism at Inroads for not having devoted an earlier issue to "Aboriginal choices." A journal seeking to...

Election hangover.
January 1, 2001... The Inroads listserv discussion group IN EACH ISSUE, HARVEY SCHACHTER selects, and edits, an especially pertinent series of contributions from the Inroads listserve. This year a lively mix of the usual suspects and novices offer their...

Constructing an alternative to Canada's natural governing party.
January 1, 2001... (a.k.a. the Liberal Party of Canada) NORMAN SPECTOR HAS BEEN AT THE centre of debates among pragmatic conservative intellectuals over the last two decades. Currently he is, to use his words, "perched in Victoria," from which vantage he has...

The dilemma of Canada's new right.
January 1, 2001... THE CANADIAN ALLIANCE WAS CREATED from the Reform Party in 2000 to present a more attractive image to Ontario's targeted voters in the upcoming election. Despite some gains, the strategy failed. Now the Alliance faces three options for the...

Can strategic voting beat Mike Harris?
January 1, 2001... IN THE 1999 ONTARIO PROVINCIAL election, a number of community organizations and trade unions formed a loose coalition to promote strategic voting in an effort to defeat the Conservatives. Despite its weaknesses, the campaign showed some...

The year of religion in politics.
January 1, 2001... IN 2000, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN religion and politics became a politically charged question in election campaigns in both Canada and the United States, each of which featured a candidate for high office who made his religious faith an...

Is it time to give religions a public voice?
January 1, 2001... REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RELIGIONS IN Third World countries, speaking at the World Bank and the United Nations, have been critical of Western secular philosophy that respects religion as a private matter and excludes it from the debates regarding...

Building the "Temporal City".
January 1, 2001... LAUDE RYAN GRAPPLES WITH THE joint demands of faith and politics, as perceived by theologians ranging from St. Augustine to Cardinal Newman and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He concludes that Christians must live their faith in the temporal world, a...

An exchange.
January 1, 2001... LAST YEAR, ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY, two important books on Aboriginal policy surfaced: Citizens Plus and First Nations? Second Thoughts. Flanagan's book is a root-and-branch critique of what he terms "the Aboriginal orthodoxy." He criticizes...

Aboriginal policy through literary eyes.
January 1, 2001... JO-ANN EPISKENEW EXAMINES A number of literary works by Canadian Aboriginal writers dealing with Indian and Metis people. Together, they reveal the devastating effects of public policy. Episkenew traces this history from 1973, when Maria...

Small nations and democracy's prospects.
January 1, 2001... Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Greenland IN SOME MIDDLE-SIZE, PROSPEROUS countries, the long postwar boom set the scene for progress in redressing historical injustices perpetrated against indigenous...

The new buffalo is education.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Deanna Christensen. 2000. Ahtahkakoop: The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, his People, and their Struggle for Survival, 2816--2896. Shell Lake, Saskatchewan: Ahtahkakoop Publishing. 844 pages, including appendices, index and...

The Sixties Scoop thirty years later.(cases of adoptions of native children)
January 1, 2001... Inroads roundtable A RAPID INCREASE IN NATIVE ADOPTION BY WHITES FOLLOWED THE CLOSING OF residential schools for Native children, in 1951, the federal government amended the Indian Act, delegating responsibility for Aboriginal health and...

Invest in Quebec's uniqueness.(province in Canada)
January 1, 2001... How to resolve the language dilemma JEAN-FRANCOIS LISEE EMBRACES WHAT he -- and most Quebecers -- see as the basis of a linguistic equilibrium: predominance of the French language, a vital and numerically secure anglophone community, and...

Appeal to sovereignists and to federalists loyal to Quebec.
January 1, 2001... LETTRE AUX SOUVERAINISTES QUEBECOIS et aux federalistes canadiens qui sont restes fideles au Quebec (Montreal: Les Editions internationales Alain Stanke) is an extended essay in which Christian Dufour argues that those loyal to Quebec, whether...

The comfort and the difference?(Review)
January 1, 2001... Martha Radice. 2000. Feeling Comfortable? Les Anglo-Montrealais et leur ville. Quebec: University of Laval Press. 187 pages. "IN THE SPIRITUAL SECTION, PERHAPS. WHAT DID YOU SAY THE TITLE WAS?" "Feeling Comfortable?" "Maybe...

How an Anglo-Irish aristocrat saved Quebec -- and why no one knows about it.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Philip Lawson. 1989. The Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 192 pages, with index. WHY REVIEW A BOOK PUBLISHED 12 YEARS AGO? I WILL EXPLAIN....

Redeeming a hero of the anti-fascist movement.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Yves Lavertu. 2000. Jean-Charles Harvey, le combattant. Montreal: Les Editions du Boreal. 401 pages. "CITE LIBRE" IS RECOGNIZED FOR ITS ROLE IN MODERNIZING QUEBEC'S OUTLOOK on social and political development in the postwar decades. Too...

Remembering Kierans.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Eric Kierans, with Walter Stewart. 2001. Remembering. Toronto: Stoddart. 298 pages, with index and photographs. THIS IS NOT A PERFECT BOOK. TOO OFTEN, IT BECOMES A COLLECTION OF fragments leaving the reader wanting to learn more - and...

Power to the Internauts.(democracy and the internet)
January 1, 2001... Democracy in the 21st century WHAT IF WE COULD DO ALL THE things we normally do without getting out of bed in the morning. Wouldn't that be great? How you feel about such a bedridden society will, I suggest, depend on your feelings towards...

Rehabilitating naturalism.
January 1, 2001... ARTHUR MILNER HAS WORKED IN professional theatre for 25 years. In this essay, he explores problems in contemporary theatre criticism and, by implication, cultural criticism in general. He traces theatre history through the birth of naturalism...