Faultlines : Struggling for a Canadian Vision

SIMPSON, Jeffrey

Toronto: HarperCollins, 1993

Spoils of power: The politics of patronage (Mass Market Paperback)

HarperCollins Canada / Not Applicable

Authors: Jeffrey Simpson
Publisher: Collins
Keywords: patronage, politics, power, spoils
Pages: 413
Published: 1988
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0002177595     ISBN-13: 9780002177597
Binding: Hardcover (First Edition)
List Price: Unknown

Spoils of power: The politics of patronage

Collins

As Jeffrey Simpson notes, every person born in Canada possesses two "inalienable" rights: to enjoy the benefits of Canadian citizenship, and to hold opinions about the United States. But as he points out in his groundbreaking and provocative new book, Canadians do not know as much as they think they do about the US - nor as much as they should know. As a result, Star-Spangled Canadians takes a news approach: Who better to compare Canada to the US than those Canadians who have moved there? Who are they? Why did they leave Canada? ...

Star-spangled Canadians: Canadians living the American dream

Harpercollins

Faultlines

Harperperennial

It's a subject that continues to provoke and fascinate Canadians, and pre-eminent political commentator Jeffrey Simpson has his finger on its pulse.Is there really a "brain drain" from Canada to the US? Why do some Canadians want to live south of the border? Who are they? What have they found? Star-Spangled Canadians delivers some startling answers about the almost 700,000 ex-pat Canadians living in the US.He has talked to more than 200 of them, from Montana State Prison death-row inmate Ronald Smith to ABC News anchor Peter Jennings.The result is a fascinating mix of anecdote, analysis and commentary that reveals surprising new perspectives on Canada's current and past relationship with America; looks sharply at the so-called "brain drain"; and explodes some longstanding myths and stereotypes we hold about Americans. Written in his trademark eloqent style, Jeffrey Simpson has penned a groundbreaking and entertaining book.

Star-Spangled Canadians Tpb

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

HarperCollins, Publishers

Medicare is the third rail of Canadian politics. Touch it and you die. Every politician knows this truism, which is why no one wants to debate it. Privately, many of them understand that the health-care system, which costs about $200 billion a year in public and private money, cannot continue as it is—increasingly ill-adapted to an aging population with public costs growing faster than government revenues. 
 In Chronic Condition, Jeffrey Simpson explores the options we have to grapple with this growing problem, including cuts in non-health-care spending, tax increases, various types of privatization, and finding savings within health care itself. His research takes him to emergency rooms and private clinics across Canada as he listens to health professionals, researchers, and administrators outline the challenges they face. Simpson examines the tenets of the medicare system that Canadians cling to so passionately. Combining impressive research, political acumen, and a sense of civic urgency, Chronic Condition breaks the silence about the huge changes and real choices that Canadians face. It is a catalyst for a much-needed public debate about an essential Canadian service.

Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health Care System Needs To Be Dragged Into The 21c

Penguin Canada

The way life was: a photographic treasury from the American past.

The way life was: a photographic treasury from the American past,

Praeger Publishers

The last member of a family that lived in a small Pennsylvania town for two hundred years writes about his family's rise from hard farm work to prosperity and its eventual decline until he ultimately left the town

American Elegy: A Family Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Plume

The last member of a family that lived in a small Pennsylvania town for two hundred years writes about his family's rise from hard farm work to prosperity and its eventual decline until he ultimately left the town. 15,000 first printing.

Regional U.S.

Dutton Adult

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Faultlines : Struggling for a Canadian Vision

Spoils of power: The politics of patronage (Mass Market Paperback)

Spoils of power: The politics of patronage

Star-spangled Canadians: Canadians living the American dream

Faultlines

Star-Spangled Canadians Tpb

Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health Care System Needs To Be Dragged Into The 21c

The way life was: a photographic treasury from the American past,

American Elegy: A Family Memoir

American Elegy: A Family Memoir