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Breastfeeding in the News
This week’s release of The One Best Way? Breastfeeding History, Politics, and Policy in Canada, by Tasnim Nathoo and Aleck Ostry, is timely, as breastfeeding is back in the news again. In Bismarck, ND,...
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Tasnim Nathoo on Breastfeeding in the News
Yesterday I blogged about breastfeeding stories in the news, including one about a woman who was arrested for breastfeeding while drunk. I asked Tasnim Nathoo, co-author of The One Best Way?...
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Depicting Canada’s Children
Today at Concordia University in Montreal, a launch was held for Depicting Canada’s Children, a gorgeous new hardcover book edited by Loren Lerner, a critical analysis of the visual representation of...
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International Human Rights Day
December 10 marks the anniversary of the signing in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since that time there have been a number of conventions attached, including the Convention on the...
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WLU Press Author Veronica Strong-Boag Wins 2012 Prestigious Canada Prize
Wilfrid Laurier University Press is pleased to announce that Veronica Strong-Boag has won the 2012 Canada Prize (Social Sciences) for her book Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of...
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Congress 2012
For the next week, the talk is all about the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Please drop by and visit us at our booth if you’re in town for Congress and check out some of these new...
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Canada’s Problematic Record on Children’s Rights
Canada signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on May 28, 1990 and ratified in 1991. With ratification a nation becomes legally bound to the tenets within. So how is Canada doing? Not so...
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