A Nation's Paper: The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada

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Synopsis
From Canada's newspaper of record for 180 years, here are thirty-one brilliant and provocative essays by a diverse selection of their writers on how The Globe and Mail covered and influenced major events and issues from the paper&’s founding to the latest file. Since 1844, the Globe and Mail and its predecessor, George Brown&’s Globe, have chronicled Canada: as a colony, a dominion, and a nation. To mark the paper&’s 180th anniversary, Globe writers explored thirty issues and events in which the national newspaper has influenced the course of the country: Confederation, settler migrations, regional tensions, tussles over language, religion, and race. The essays reveal a tapestry of progress, conflict, and still-incomplete reconciliation: Catholic-Protestant hostilities that are now mostly the stuff of memory; the betrayal of Indigenous peoples with which we still grapple; the frustrations and triumphs of women journalists; pandemics old and new; environmental challenges; the joys of covering sports and the arts; chronicling the nation&’s business, international coverage, the impossibility of Canada and of this newspaper, which both somehow flourish nonetheless. Riveting, insightful, disturbing, witty, and always a joy to read, A Nation&’s Paper chronicles a country and a newspaper that have grown and struggled together – essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where we came from and where we are going. The Globe and Mail will donate all its proceeds from the book to Journalists for Human Rights.
Copyright:
2024

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780771006296
Related ISBNs:
9780771006289
Publisher:
McClelland & Stewart
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Copyrighted By:
The Globe and Mail Inc.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Language Arts, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
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