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The Big Blue Machine

Author : J. Patrick Boyer
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459724518
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Big Blue Machine written by J. Patrick Boyer and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside account of the Progressive Conservative’s campaign organization. The Progressive Conservative Party’s “big blue machine” pioneered electoral techniques of centralized control, communications, campaign advertising, polling, policy-presentation, and fund-raising. Inspired by Dalton Camp and Norman Atkins, its widespread yet close-knit network of organizers and specialists changed how Canadian campaigns were fought, even as their “political machine” transformed Canadian public life itself. J. Patrick Boyer’s behind-the-scenes account reveals how and why the blue machine’s campaign innovations (most imported from the U.S.) transformed Canadian politics forever. Boyer’s direct experience in these changes, and interviews with key players from Tory backrooms, enrich his authentic and timely account. This saga of the formidable campaign organization operating inside the Progressive Conservative Party for more than four decades shows why the big blue machine deservedly became a Canadian political legend.

The Little Odds

Author : Julie Williams-Nash
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035843676
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Little Odds written by Julie Williams-Nash and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold on to your hats... here comes a roller-coaster, magical, mystical, and hilarious adventure for children of all ages. Little Odd lives happily on Cloud Ninety-Nine-a-Hundred, until one day, an accidental roll sends Little Odd tumbling to Earth. Completely clueless and lost, Little Odd soon gathers a motley crew of misfits and outcasts. Together, they embark on a madcap journey through The Dump, The Land of Wonder, the Pits of Despair, the Underworld, and finally, a grand finale of fun and festivities. The Little Odds Trilogy celebrates the joy of letting your imagination run wild while delivering serious messages about climate change, protecting our beautiful planet, and treating everyone with kindness and compassion. It is a whimsical tale about humanity that is truly like nothing on earth. Honestly.

Bill Davis

Author : Steve Paikin
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459731778
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Bill Davis written by Steve Paikin and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-10-08 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Ontario Historical Society Donald Grant Creighton Award — Winner A National Post Bestseller, The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016, 2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted The first authorized biography of Bill Davis, the enigmatic Ontario premier who carried on a Tory dynasty, but was also a crucial Trudeau supporter. A biography of one of Ontario’s most important premiers, who, despite having been out of public life for more than thirty years, is remembered fondly by many as the father of the community college system, TVO, OISE, and was indispensable in repatriating the Canadian Constitution with an accompanying Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Before he became premier, Davis was perhaps the most important education minister in Ontario history, responsible for the creation of the community college system and TVOntario. As premier, he went on to lead Ontario through buoyant and recessionary economic times, leaving a legacy Ontarians continue to enjoy. Now 87, Davis still lives on Main Street in his beloved Brampton.

Greenhouse Summer

Author : Norman Spinrad
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575117338
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Greenhouse Summer written by Norman Spinrad and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of the future is in a lot of trouble. Pollution, overpopulation, and ecological disasters have left the rich nations still rich, and the poor nations dying. Still, for international businesses it is business as usual. It is better to be rich. But is it all coming to a terrible end? A scientist has predicted Condition Venus, the sudden greenhouse end of the planet - but she can't say when. So the attention of the world is on a UN conference in Paris, where all hell is about to break loose.

Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball

Author : James Duane Bolin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813177235
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball written by James Duane Bolin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the "Man in the Brown Suit" and the "Baron of the Bluegrass," Adolph Rupp (1901–1977) is a towering figure in the history of college athletics. In Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball, historian James Duane Bolin goes beyond the wins and losses to present the fullest account of Rupp's life to date based on more than one-hundred interviews with Rupp, his assistant coaches, former players, University of Kentucky presidents and faculty members, and his admirers and critics, as well as court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other archival materials. His teams won four NCAA championships (1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958), the 1946 National Invitation Tournament title, and twenty-seven Southeastern Conference regular season titles. Rupp's influence on the game of college basketball and his impact on Kentucky culture are both much broader than his impressive record on the court. Bolin covers Rupp's early years—from his rural upbringing in a German Mennonite family in Halstead, Kansas, through his undergraduate years at the University of Kansas playing on teams coached by Phog Allen and taking classes with James Naismith, the inventor of basketball—to his success at Kentucky. This revealing portrait of a pivotal figure in American sports also exposes how college basketball changed, for better or worse, in the twentieth century.

Right Turn

Author : Christina Blizzard
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459718453
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Right Turn written by Christina Blizzard and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1995-01-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wasn't so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario's political landscape in the spring of 1995 — it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike Harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinstripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years of Tory rule. These Tories were young, hip, and they were riding the wave of their Common Sense Revolution, a platform launched a year earlier. Still, there were only a few who thought the PCs stood a chance of winning the Ontario provincial election. Though Bob Rae's NDP government was foundering, Lyn McLeod and the Liberals were holding what looked like a steady two-to-one lead in the polls. Relying on a combination of video tapes, clever advertising, and a brilliant campaign plan, the Harris team turned it all around, pulling off one of the most stunning upsets in Canadian political history. Right Turn tells the story.

Campaign Confessions

Author : John Laschinger
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459736559
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Campaign Confessions written by John Laschinger and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Bestseller! Canada’s Only Full-Time Political Campaign Manager — 50 Campaigns in 45 Years with 30 Victories John Laschinger opens the doors to the backrooms and war rooms of the political campaigns he has run, providing lessons for aspiring campaign managers, and exposing what really happens behind the scenes.

Paikin and the Premiers

Author : Steve Paikin
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459709608
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Paikin and the Premiers written by Steve Paikin and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare, uniform perspective on premiers John Robarts, Bill Davis, Frank Miller, David Peterson, Bob Rae, Mike Harris, Ernie Eves, Dalton McGuinty, and Kathleen Wynne from the vantage point of one of Canada's most astute and respected journalists.

Paikin on Ontario's Premiers 2-Book Bundle

Author : Steve Paikin
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459738330
Total Pages : 1262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Paikin on Ontario's Premiers 2-Book Bundle written by Steve Paikin and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-10-22 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique perspective on Ontario's most powerful political leaders from one of Canada's most astute and respected journalists. Includes: Bill Davis: Nation Builder, and Not So Bland After All A biography of perhaps Ontario’s most important premier, who, despite having been out of public life for thirty years, is remembered fondly by many as the head of one of Ontario’s most progressive, yet conservative, governments. Paikin and the Premiers: Personal Reflections on a Half-Century of Ontario Leaders A rare, uniform perspective on premiers John Robarts, Bill Davis, Frank Miller, David Peterson, Bob Rae, Mike Harris, Ernie Eves, Dalton McGuinty, and Kathleen Wynne from the vantage point of one of Canada's most astute and respected journalists.

Memoirs

Author : Brian Mulroney
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991888
Total Pages : 1321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs written by Brian Mulroney and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 1321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics was always Brian Mulroney’s real love. As an undergraduate in Nova Scotia he amazed his friends by getting Prime Minister Diefenbaker on the phone, and he rose fast in the Tory ranks in Quebec as a young Montreal lawyer. He tried for the leadership of the party in 1976, losing to Joe Clark, then returned to win a rematch in 1983. The next year, he ran the most successful election campaign in Canadian history, winning 211 seats, and taking office in September 1984. His first term in office was a stormy one, marked by the launch of the Meech Lake Accord and the Free Trade Agreement with the United States. In 1988, however, he was re-elected after a rollercoaster campaign, and his second term in office was just as controversial, featuring the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords — still a source of bitter regret for him, as opportunities missed. This book falls into two main sections: first, his rise out of a working-class family in Baie-Comeau. Second, his immersion into the world of Ottawa politics, in opposition and then in power. The years in power are dealt with in fascinating detail, and we receive his candid accounts of backstage dealings with Trudeau, Clark, and other Canadian leaders and on the international scene with Reagan, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Kohl, Gorbachev, Mandela, Clinton, and many more. This big book has a huge cast of major players. Brian Mulroney is determined to make this the best prime minister’s memoirs this country has ever seen, and a full-time researcher has been helping him for three years. This account of his career is colourful and forthright, and a number of opponents will be sorry that they caught his attention. The manuscript is full of personal touches and reflects the fact that he wrote it by hand, reading it aloud for rhythm and impact. Studded with entries from his private journal, this book — by a son, brother, husband, and father — is deeply personal, and includes some surprisingly frank admissions. The book establishes the scale of his achievements, and reveals him as a man of great charm. Memoirs will allow that little-known Brian Mulroney to engage directly with the reader. This book is full of surprises, as we fall under the spell of a great storyteller.

100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

Author : Steve Clarke
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1633197700
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book 100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die written by Steve Clarke and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Blue Jays fans have taken in a game or two at Rogers Centre, remember where they were when Joe Carter hit his World Series–winning home run in 1993, and took in every moment of the Jays' historic 2015 postseason run. But only real fans know who spent two decades as the team's BJ Birdy mascot, can name the opposing player who was once jailed for hitting a seagull with a thrown baseball at Exhibition Stadium, or how long it takes to open the Rogers Centre roof. 100 Things Blue Jays Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die stands as the ultimate resource for true fans of Canada's sole major league baseball team. Author Steve Clarke has collected every essential piece of Blue Jays knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as readers progress on their way to fan superstardom. This updated edition includes the Blue Jay's recent success and revival, including the push to the 2015 American League Championship Series and Josh Donaldson's MVP season.

Shopping for Votes

Author : Susan Delacourt
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1771621109
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Shopping for Votes written by Susan Delacourt and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition offers an insightful and provocative look at the inside world of political marketing in Canada—and what this means about the state of our democracy in the twenty-first century—from a leading political commentator. Inside the political backrooms of Ottawa, the Mad Men of Canadian politics are planning their next consumer friendly pitch. Where once politics was seen as a public service, increasingly it’s seen as a business, and citizens are the customers. But its unadvertised products are voter apathy and gutless public policy. Susan Delacourt takes readers into the world of Canada’s top political marketers, from the 1950s to the present, explaining how parties slice and dice their platforms for different audiences and how they manage the media. The current system divides the country into “niche” markets and abandons the hard political work of knitting together broad consensus or national vision. Little wonder then, that most Canadians have checked out of the political process: less than two per cent of the population belongs to a political party and fewer than half of voters under the age of thirty showed up at the ballot box in the last few federal elections. Provocative, incisive, entertaining and refreshingly non-partisan, Shopping for Votes offers a new narrative for understanding political culture in Canada.

Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets

Author : Victor Appleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tom Swift and his Chest of Secrets; Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions

Author : Howard R. Garis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Tom Swift and his Chest of Secrets; Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions written by Howard R. Garis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tom Swift and his Chest of Secrets; Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions" by Howard R. Garis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Communicating in Canada's Past

Author : Gene Allen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802094988
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Communicating in Canada's Past written by Gene Allen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of its kind, this volume assembles both well-established and up-and-coming scholars to address sizable gaps in the literature on media history in Canada.

Parade

Author : Jerry S Grafstein
Publisher : Mosaic Press
ISBN 13 : 177161241X
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Parade written by Jerry S Grafstein and published by Mosaic Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parade – A Tribute to Remarkable Contemporaries compiles many of the Honourable Jerry S. Grafstein’s greatest speeches and tributes from over three decades in politics and public office. With chapters on renowned Canadian political and cultural figures such as Morley Callaghan, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Joe Clark, Oscar Peterson and Peter Gzowski, together these tributes offer a rich portrait of individuals that have shaped Canada and the world.

Transforming the Nation

Author : Raymond Benjamin Blake
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773532145
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Nation written by Raymond Benjamin Blake and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Mulroney captured the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives and became the first prime minister in thirty-five years - and the first Conservative since Sir John A. Macdonald - to win consecutive majorities. His victory was the largest in Canadian political history, yet his party was almost wiped out in the election following his resignation. In Transforming the Nation, leading Canadian politicians and scholars reflect on the major policy debates of the period and offer new and surprising interpretations of Brian Mulroney. Mulroney had a tremendous impact on Canada, charting a new direction for the country through his decisions on a variety of public-policy issues - free trade with the United States, social-security reform, foreign policy, and Canada's North. The Mulroney government represented a dramatic break with Canada's past. Mulroney received severe criticism for many of his new initiatives and left office with the lowest approval rating of any Canadian prime minister. However, much of the legislation he put in place was both embraced and expanded by the Liberals who succeeded him. Transforming the Nation is a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex world of Canadian public policy during the Mulroney era.