Hirst Authority and Conflict CJH

This essay contextualises the recent controversy about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), which opened in September 2014 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, by documenting the background shadowing the campaigns spearheaded by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress against CMHR advisory board plans to install a permanent gallery devoted to the Holocaust. Their history demonstrates how these ultranationalist lobbies have glorified the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, its militant wing (UPA), and the Waffen-SS Galizien while rationalising or occluding their roles in Second World War period massacres of Jewish and Polish civilians.

Reviews: In Contemporary Political Theory: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-020-00388-3 In the Canadian Journal of Political Science: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423918000550 The idea of political unity – or belonging – contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members. The price of belonging is an entrenched social stratification and hierarchy within the political unit itself. In Lived Fictions, John Grant explores the ways in which we imagine political unity can be achieved. The Canadian notion of progressive politics and social cohesion generates a collective commitment to imagining how society is structured. These political imaginaries – the citizen-state, the market economy, charters of rights, and so forth – are the lived fictions that bind us together. They orient our sense of national identity and shape our understanding of political legitimacy, responsibility, and action. Grant also persuasively details why the project of political unity must fail: it distorts our lived experiences and allows harmful relations of inequality and domination to take root. Canada promises unity through democratic politics, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, a welfare state that protects the vulnerable, and a multicultural approach to cultural relations. This book documents the historical failure of these promises and elaborates the kinds of institutional and intellectual changes needed to overcome our lived fictions. This book will find a keen audience among students and scholars of Canadian politics, political theory, and Indigenous politics.

… Oral History Association Société canadienne d' …

Recovered and amplified ancient DNA (aDNA), from a historically documented 19th century Upper Canadian pioneer cemetery produced genotypes that were used to infer a past societal kinship system. While the results from multiplex short tandem repeat (STR) amplifications showed an unreliable polymerase chain reaction (PCR) product, a single locus HUMTH01 analysis yielded reproducible data and an allelic frequency pattern not statistically different from modern populations. Mitochondrial (mt) DNA HVR II data showed that a combined cemetery database exhibited reduced haplotype diversity indicators, as well as clusters of probable maternally related burials. The chronological persistence and replacement of mtDNA clusters approximately every two generations suggests a patrilineal/patrilocal kinship structure from a virilocal burial program for the Harmony Road cemetery. Through the integration of the aDNA analysis with archaeological material culture, historic records, and other ethnohistoric sources of information, this conclusion is supported. In this study persisting patrilineally inherited surnames act as a surrogate for aDNA Y-chromosome haplotype analysis. These results suggest that aDNA applications on aggregate skeletal collections where sparse, or no ethnological or historical documentation exists, may result in incorrect population history inferences if the presence of a kinship interment bias is not considered.

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La présente étude a pour but d'expliquer la nature et l'orientation du débat actuel sur la mise en histoire du passé du Canada. Pour ce faire, de nombreux documents (livres, articles de périodiques et de journaux, actes de colloques, etc.) ont été analysés. Notre mémoire présente les origines de ce débat dans les années 1990 et propose une vue d'ensemble des principaux arguments que défendent les historiens et autres intellectuels canadiens qui y participent. Cette démarche nous permet de faire ressortir la multiplicité des éléments de tension et de division qui structurent le discours sur l'histoire du Canada. Dans un premier temps, nous exposons la perspective des historiens des régions. Par la suite, nous abordons le débat par l'entremise des historiens du national et des historiens du social. Enfin, un dernier chapitre est consacré au cas particulier du Québec, (mi)lieu où le débat n'a pas les mêmes résonances. Globalement, nous analysons le contenu de l'histoire nationale, régionale et sociale, mais aussi l'espace accaparé ces domaines dans la trame de l'aventure historique canadienne.

Journal of Quaternary Science, 2009

A pollen-based study from Tiny Lake in the Seymour-Belize Inlet Complex of central coastal British Columbia, Canada, permits an evaluation of the dynamic response of coastal temperate rainforests to postglacial climate change. Open Pinus parklands grew at the site during the early Lateglacial when the climate was cool and dry, but more humid conditions in the later phases of the Lateglacial permitted mesophytic conifers to colonise the region. Early Holocene conditions were warmer than present and a successional mosaic of Tsuga heterophylla and Alnus occurred at Tiny Lake. Climate cooling and moistening at 8740 AE 70 14 C a BP initiated the development of closed, late successional T. heterophylla-Cupressaceae forests, which achieved modern character after 6860 AE 50 14 C a BP, when a temperate and very wet climate became established. The onset of early Holocene climate cooling and moistening at Tiny Lake may have preceded change at more southern locations, including within the Seymour-Belize Inlet Complex, on a meso-to synoptic scale. This would suggest that an early Holocene intensification of the Aleutian Low pressure system was an important influence on forest dynamics in the Seymour-Belize Inlet Complex and that the study region was located near the southern extent of immediate influence of this semi-permanent air mass. Pollen diagram of the relative abundance of select pollen taxa. Lithology, percent loss-on-ignition and chronology of the Tiny Lake sediment core are included

Title of the forthcoming publication: «The legal notion of marriage in English and Canadian Courts (1866-2017): a comparative perspective on judicial reasoning©». Original Italian title (tesi di dottorato): «La nozione di matrimonio attraverso il prisma del giudice di common law. La giurisprudenza inglese e canadese fra reciproche influenze e inevitabili divergenze».