October 2015 SELECTED NEW TITLES Some Recent Additions to the Library Collection National Model Construction Codes now available………………… p. 1 Contents Legislative Library News ...............................................................................................................................1 Librarian’s Picks ..............................................................................................................................................2 New titles to borrow for October 2015 .......................................................................................................4 Aboriginal Peoples .........................................................................................................................................4 Agriculture and Food .....................................................................................................................................4 Biography ........................................................................................................................................................4 Culture, Sports and Tourism ........................................................................................................................4 Environment, Energy and Natural Resources ...........................................................................................4 Health...............................................................................................................................................................5 Heritage and History ......................................................................................................................................5 Law and Justice .............................................................................................................................................5 Media and Communication ...........................................................................................................................5 Politics and Government ...............................................................................................................................5 Security, Policing and the Military ...............................................................................................................6 Social Issues ...................................................................................................................................................6 Manitoba Heritage titles for October 2015 ................................................................................................7 Aboriginal Peoples .........................................................................................................................................7 Biography ........................................................................................................................................................7 Children's Books ............................................................................................................................................8 Climate Change .............................................................................................................................................8 Culture, Sports and Tourism ........................................................................................................................9 Economics, Finance and Taxation ..............................................................................................................9 Education and Training .................................................................................................................................9 Environment, Energy and Natural Resources ...........................................................................................9 Health............................................................................................................................................................ 10 Heritage and History ................................................................................................................................... 10 International Issues .................................................................................................................................... 11 Manitoba Fiction and Literature ................................................................................................................ 11 Politics and Government ............................................................................................................................ 12 Security, Policing and the Military ............................................................................................................ 12 Social Issues ................................................................................................................................................ 12 Transportation ............................................................................................................................................. 13 Request Form .................................................................................................................................................14 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT October 2015 1 Legislative Library News National Model Construction Codes now available The Manitoba Legislative Library is pleased to announce that current and historic Canadian Codes Centre publications are now available to Manitoba Government employees. Publications include the National Research Council Canada’s National Energy Code for Buildings, National Building Code, National Fire Code, National Plumbing Code, National Farm Building Code, as well as all historic editions of the National Construction Code from 1941 to 1998. Materials must be accessed through the Legislative Library’s 200 Vaughan Street location. Please visit the library, or contact Reference Services staff for assistance at 204-945-4330 or at [email protected]. 2 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT October 2015 Librarian’s Picks The reason you walk / Wab Kinew. Toronto : Viking, 2015. 273 pages. CT 1 Kinew, Wab Kin From PW Annex Reviews: Kinew, a prominent Canadian journalist, musician, and Ojibway leader, turns his immense capacity for storytelling to his own life. He begins with the story of his father, Tobasonakwut, including a childhood spent on traditional Anishinaabe lands in Ontario, abuse in an Indian residential school, his later life as an elder and elected leader, and a search for peace that takes his family across the Americas and even to Rome. The journey is familial, political, and spiritual for both father and son, spanning drug and alcohol use, failed relationships, births, adoptions, bureaucratic battles, constitutional questions, sundances, sweat lodges, and visions. In this powerfully written memoir, pivotal moments are delivered in short sentences, a style that is brilliantly clear but retains enough opacity to engender serious, fruitful thought. Kinew's father taught him that there are four meanings to the book's title phrase, all of which are "from the perspective of the Creator: ‘I have created you and therefore you walk... I am your motivation.... I am the spark inside you called love, which animates you and allows you to live by the Anishinaabe values.... I am the destination at the end of your life that you are walking towards." By the end, readers will feel honored to know why Kinew walks, on all four levels. Children of the broken treaty : Canada's lost promise and one girl's dream / Charlie Angus. Regina : University of Regina Press, 2015. xix, 324 pages. E 96.65 .O58 Ang From the publisher: Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country’s history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman whom George Stroumboulopoulos named as one of “five teenage girls who kicked ass in history.” All Shannen wanted was a decent education. She found an ally in Charlie Angus, who had no idea she was going to change his life and inspire others to change the country. Based on extensive documentation assembled from Freedom of Information requests, Angus establishes a dark, unbroken line that extends from the policies of John A. Macdonald to the government of today. He provides chilling insight into how Canada--through breaches of treaties, broken promises, and callous neglect-- deliberately denied First Nations children their basic human rights. MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT October 2015 3 Canadian intellectuals, the Tory tradition and the challenge of modernity, 1939- 1970 / Philip Massolin. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2001. x, 357 pages. FC 95.4 Mas From Book News: Based upon Massolin's Ph.D. thesis (U. of Alberta), this text examines the process of modernization in Canada in the last century and how intellectual conservatives have attempted to resist it. The focus is on the ideas of such critics of modernity as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, Donald Creighton, George P. Grant, and Marshall McLuhan. Massolin is a researcher with Chinook Multimedia in Edmonton. Delta : a prairie marsh and its people / written by: Glen Suggette, Gordon Goldsborough, Robert Jones, Winnie Pauch, Heidi den Haan, Leo Pettipas, Shirley Christianson, Barry Bills and Cynthia Jordan. Portage la Prairie, Manitoba : Delta Marsh History Group, 2015. xiii, 302 pages. QH 106.2 M3 Sug From the publisher: Delta: A Prairie Marsh and Its People is a story of