Word: canadianization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Bush prepares to meet his European and Canadian counterparts at the G-8 summit this weekend, he is dusting off an image that he first presented to the nation during the 2000 campaign: the compassionate conservative. The President has suddenly started talking up a passel of humanitarian programs in an effort to show the human side of the Bush foreign policy. A prime example is the $15 billion AIDS-prevention program, pushed by the White House and due to be signed by Bush this week. He has also announced a new effort to help Americans volunteer overseas...
...despair. Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a São Paulo jail. Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unspecified disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf. Even Denys Arcand's genial The Barbarian Invasions, a French-Canadian billet-doux to a dear, dying scoundrel, featured a jarring clip of a hijacked plane crashing into the World Trade Center. And the two main Palme d'Or contenders showed how the world could end in America: with a bang. Dogville - like Von Trier's best-known films, Breaking...
...mixture of Native Americans and French settlers who lived along the Red River just north of Minnesota. In 1869 the land was ostensibly owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, who sold it to Canada. Fearful of having another French influence in Parliament, the Canadian government attempted to install an English Protestant governor. Angry that they were left out of the deal and determined to have elected representatives the Métis prevented the governor from entering the territory. Riel's knowledge of English, Montreal education, and overall charisma made him a natural leader. Democratically inclined, he organized a provisional...
...States Riel has a vision from God, appointing him as a new prophet. Thus divined he returns to Canada to lead the Métis from bondage as Moses led the Jews. By now, many of the them have moved further west where they continue to rankle against the Canadian government. As Brown depicts it, the Prime Minister takes advantage of Riel's return to deliberately provoke a rebellion in order to send in troops on the foundering Canadian-Pacific Railway. Declaring that God doesn't want the Métis to use guerrilla tactics, Riel disastrously waits...
Chester Brown takes admitted liberties with some aspects of the story. Some are as small as combining Riel's several defense councils into one character. Bigger leaps include the theory that the Canadian government actually conspired to cause the last Métis rebellion. In a remarkable move that lets Brown tell the best story and tell the truth, every deviance from recorded history is meticulously footnoted at the end. Deeply researched yet carefully manipulated, the final result goes past history and into literature. "Louis Riel" ties together all the ideas Chester Brown has explored before in disparate ways...