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Mel Hurtig was born in Edmonton, Canada on June 24, 1932. He opened the city's first independent bookstore in 1956 and launched a publishing company, Hurtig Publishing, in the 1970s. He oversaw the creation and publication of The Canadian Encyclopedia. He eventually sold his publishing firm and the toon meer encyclopedia to McClelland & Stewart and turned to writing and politics. He ran for the federal Liberal Party in 1972, but was defeated. He remained involved in political activism throughout the '70s through the '90s. In 1973, he established the Committee for an Independent Canada to make the case against foreign ownership and cultural imperialism. In 1985, he established the Council of Canadians. He wrote several books including The Vanishing Country and The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper's Takeover of Canada. He was an Officer of the Order of Canada and received the Lester B. Pearson Man of the Year Peace Award. He died after a short bout of pneumonia on August 3, 2016 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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1932-06-24
Overlijdensdatum
2016-08-03
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Canada
Land (voor op de kaart)
Canada
Plaats van overlijden
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Officer in the Order of Canada
Council of Canadians, Founder
Edmonton Art Gallery
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A must read for this election season.
 
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beentsy | Aug 12, 2023 |
This book was a bit spooky to read. It is so easy to manipulate numbers and Hurtig presents so many numbers that are opposite to what we are always told that you wonder who is playing with them. He makes a lot of important points regarding our dependence on the US and how our Canadian social policy is slowly erroding to turn us into a US state. It is a very important book to read and to help us realize that we need to do something to preserve our Canada. Reading it several years after it came out was interesting as he spends a few pages blasting Harper and saying if he ever becomes PM we are in for it. I will have to look around to see if Hurtig has published any follow up articles on the subject :)… (meer)
 
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janeycanuck | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 28, 2006 |
Mel Hurtig did an excellent job at educating the people about the real effects of NAFTA in this book printed in 1991. Mel's vision of the future has certainly come to pass only faster I believe than he originally projected. He further elaborates on the destruction of our soveriegnty and democracy in his 2002 book 'The Vanishing Country, Is it Too Late to Save Canada'. I would recommend the later as it's a newer book with more current stats but either are definitely must reads for every Canadian. Full of facts and an excellent reference book that every Canadian should own. Another recommendation would be Jack Layton's book 'Speaking Out: Ideas that Work for Canadians'. This country is on the eve of extinction and what are we going to do about it? We must act now. Please also join 'The Council of Canadians', which was founded by Mel Hurtig, and is an important activist group fighting to save what's left of our nation.… (meer)
 
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BookAddict | Mar 20, 2006 |
This book is outstanding and must be read by *every* Canadian! If your Canadian and you read just one book this year let it be this one.
 
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