Pre-Election Reads: Justin Trudeau
June 10, 2015 | John P. | Comments (0)
Canada has a federal election scheduled to be held on October 19, 2015. While some voters may have already decided which political party and leader to support, others have not and may be seeking information and research to help them to make a personal, informed decision. Toronto Public Library can help those individuals in a non-partisan way by providing access to collection items available for borrowing (or using) with a valid Toronto Public Library card. So let us continue…
Justin Trudeau is the current leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (since 2013) and the Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Papineau (since 2008). He is the eldest of three sons of the late former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair. Justin Trudeau attracted attention and sympathy when he delivered a moving eulogy at his father’s funeral in September 2000. With a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia, Justin Trudeau taught high school in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also studied engineering at the Université de Montréal, and environmental geography at McGill University (towards a Master of Arts degree). In 2007, Justin Trudeau portrayed First World War hero Talbot Mercer Papineau (who was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele near Ypres, Belgium on October 30, 1917) in the two-part mini-series The Great War that was broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Justin Trudeau has supported various initiatives over the years, including the Katimavik Youth Program, the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto (which became part of the Munk Centre for Global Affairs), the protection of the Nahanni River (a United Nations World Heritage Site) from pollution owing to zinc mining, and participation in literary events such as the Giller Prize and CBC Radio’s Canada Reads.
Consider the following items for borrowing from Toronto Public Library collections:
Books:
Aussi disponible en français comme: Terrain d’entente.
Read the review of Common Ground from the Globe and Mail.
Read the review of Common Ground from the Literary Review of Canada.
eBooks:
Aussi disponible en français comme: Terrain d’entente.
DVDs:
Canada's Amazon a boreal forest journey [videodisc] / The Nature of Things; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2003. 47 minutes.
The Great War [2 videodiscs] / Brian McKenna et al.; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2007. 240 minutes.
View Justin Trudeau’s conversation with Catherine Clark about his new book Common Ground on November 10, 2014 in the Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library:
As part of making an informed decision in federal election 2015, citizens should avail themselves of information from the media (newspapers, radio, television, online etc.) as the election campaign unfolds. To help with that, Toronto Public Library cardholders can also access the following databases online in seeking information from magazine and newspaper sources:
Full-text articles, videos, audio files, vetted web sites etc. on a broad range of topics, people, places and events.
Available anywhere.
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Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA)
Full-text business and general interest articles from popular, academic and business periodicals.
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Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
Articles from general, academic and business magazines. Index from 1988, full text from 1995.
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(See also: Pre-Election Reads: Stephen Harper )
(See also: Pre-Election Reads: Elizabeth May )
(See also: Pre-Election Reads: Thomas Mulcair )
