Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Gonick, By (ed.)
Publisher: Lorimer, Canada
Year Published: 2016
Pages: 576pp ISBN: 978-1-4594-1113-5
Library of Congress Number: FC600.C85 2016 Dewey: 971.064
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX19516
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
Abstract:
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From publisher:
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.
The twenty-seven contributors, from every part of the country are Greg Albo, Brenda Austin Smith, Chris Bailey, Evan Bowness, Mordecai Briemburg, Elizabeth Comack, Angela Day, Bryan Evans, Alvin Finkel, Peter Graefe, Judy Haiven, Larry Haiven, Trevor Harrison, Henry Heller, David Hugill, Peter Kulchyski, Andrea Levy, James McCorrie, James Naylor, Bryan Palmer, Denis Pilon, Joe Roberts, Stephanie Ross, Arthur Schafer, Frank Tester, John Warnock and Chris Webb.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Mel Watkins
Introduction: Keeping the Spark Alive
Cy Gonick
The Canadian Dimension
Chapter 1. The Canadian Dimension
Cy Gonick
National Dimensions
Chapter 2. Canada and the American Empire
Joseph Roberts
Chapter 3. Balancing the Claims of Nation and of Class: Fifty Years of Covering Quebec
Peter Graefe
Chapter 4. Fifty Years in Indian Country
Peter Kulchyski
The Green Dimension
Chapter 5. The Green Dimension
Andrea Levy
Chapter 6. Natural Resources and Canadian Capitalism: The View From Canadian
Dimension Magazine
John W. Warnock
The Cultural Dimension
Chapter 7. Becoming Ordinary: 50 Years of Arts and Culture
Brenda Austin-Smith
The Institutional Dimension
Chapter 8. Fifty Years of Class Struggle
Larry Haiven and Judy Haiven
Chapter 9. Rebelling Youth: Universities and Students
James Naylor
Chapter 10. Canadian Dimension and the Great Canadian Health Care Debate
Chapter 11. Crime and Punishment: The More Things Change…
Evan Bowness and Elizabeth Comack
Chapter 12. Racism, Human Rights and Immigration
Christopher Webb
The Global Dimension
Chapter 13. Revolution and Imperialism: A North American Internationalism
Henry Heller
Chapter 14. A Journey from Israel to Palestine
Mordecai Briemberg
Dimensions of Political Economy
Chapter 15. Beyond Economic Nationalism: Clashes with Canadian Capitalism
Greg Albo and Chris Bailey
The Regional and Urban Dimension
Chapter 16. The Home Province: Canadian Dimension and Manitoba
Alvin Finkel
Chapter 17. Work and Change in Atlantic Canada
Angela Day
Chapter 18. The "Next Year" Province: Canadian Dimension and Saskatchewan
James N. McCrorie
Chapter 19. Canadian Dimension and the "Other" Ontario: Radical Reportage through
Four Transformative Decades
Bryan Evans
Chapter 20. Canadian Dimension Covers British Columbia: Power, Promises and Pulp
Fiction
Frank Tester
Chapter 21. Alberta
Trevor W. Harrison
Chapter 22. The Urban Dimension
David Hugill
Chapter 23. The Socialist Dimension
Bryan Palmer
Dimensions of Identity
Chapter 24. CD and Feminism: Chronicle of a Movement Defining Itself
Stephanie Ross
Chapter 25. The Personal Dimension
Dennis Pilon
Endnotes
About the Contributors
Index
Subject Headings
