“All Aboard the CCGS Harper to a Glorious Ice-Free North” by Avery Ascher (CCGS stands for Canadian Coast Guard Ship, the designation on Canada’s fleet of ice breakers) “Canada and the US need to join forces when it comes to the Arctic.” Lloyd Axworthy This being election year in the USA, imagine an electoral district

by Phil Howard, Communications On Wednesday April 27th, Dr. Greg Elmer gave a lecture on the role of streaming media in contemporary Canadian politics. He is the is Bell Globemedia Research Chair and Director of the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media, Ryerson University, Toronto. The lecture he gave features material he preparing

In May of 2012 Kenda Gee, documentary filmmaker from Edmonton, was in Seattle for the screening of his award-winning documentary, The Lost Years: A People’s Struggle for Survival. The film screened at the Seattle International Film Festival. Below are photos of Kenda with Canadian Studies students and faculty, with Connie So, U.W. American Ethnic Studies,

Fritz Wagner (second from right) and Régent Cabana, l’Université Laval, celebrate the publication of their book, Revitalisation des Quartiers Centraux et Historiques en Amérique du Nord – the culmination of a four-year U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education grant.

Sïon Romaine (right), wrote a successful grant for the U.W. Libraries Canada collection. Terry Mosher (right) and Don Hellmann celebrate the event.

Above: Professor Hsu Professor Hsu, Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, discussed that while carbon tax legislation is unlikely to pass on federal level in US or Canada, such legislation could be passed by Washington State or British Columbia. He argued that internationally carbon tax makes much more sense than other alternatives such

Jill Woelfer, Information School, was just awarded the UW Graduate School Medal for her research on homeless young people and personal digital technologies. This award honors Jill’s scholarship and her commitment to social improvement in our neighborhood and far beyond. Currently a Fulbright Fellow to Canada, Jill is collecting comparative data in Vancouver, BC and

At the Spring 2012, Program on the Environment Capstone symposium, student Victoria Choe did her paper presentation. She writes in her abstract: Warming temperatures and the declining extent of sea ice have encouraged economic development in the Russian Arctic. The Russian Federation’s implementation of a foreign policy which places priority on sustainable socio-economic development, and

This spring, the Libraries received a grant from the Government of Canada to support the purchase of the 2011 Microlog microfiche set. Microlog is the clearinghouse for Canadian research and report literature in all subject disciplines. The set includes research, scientific, technical and annual reports, policy papers and statistical materials and is indexed in the

David Pettinicchio’s paper, “Migration and Ethnic Nationalism: Anglophone Exit and the ‘Decolonization’ of Québec,” has been selected as winner of the 2012 Nations and Nationalism Prize in the memory of Dominique Jacquin-Berdal. This award, given by The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, will be presented at the ASEN conference at the London