Nobility

"The Honourable John Norquay is a magnificent book. Friesen meticulously documents Norquay's many accomplishments, larger-than-life character, and charisma. He paints a picture of a negotiator and orator who ably uses …

of the nobility attended his funeral.”17 He would not have placed Norquay among the nobility. Both …

Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a …

Mars was widely worshipped as their god of war. Nobility and stature were obtained through the cult of …

After Estonia ended socialist rule and transitioned back to a market democracy, Estonians enjoyed vast improvements in their incomes, living standards and other key measures of prosperity. After the second …

landholding elite—especially the former Baltic-German nobility—had benefited from centuries of political privilege … including private estates of the Baltic German nobility, tsarist state lands, and agricultural lands … rulers. Their power derived from the support of the nobility, which represented just 1 percent of the population … were extractive, organized to make the tsar and nobility as wealthy as possible. The basis of this, as …

This ethnography shows how the language of compassion is used to oppress Bhutanese refugees.

framed as an altru- istic act with “a kernel of nobility in…giving money to ‘good causes’ to alleviate …

After the Soviet Union invaded Estonia and imposed socialism, living standards in Estonia plummeted—particularly compared to neighbouring Finland. Estonia and Finland share much in common including geography and natural resources. …

landholding elite—especially the former Baltic-German nobility—had benefited from centuries of political privilege … including private estates of the Baltic German nobility, tsarist state lands, and agricultural lands … rulers. Their power derived from the support of the nobility, which represented just 1 percent of the population … were extractive, organized to make the tsar and nobility as wealthy as possible. The basis of this, as …

She Dared to Succeed (in French, Elle a osé réussir), delves into the life of a woman who, for more than 30 years, broke multiple glass ceilings in the Canadian …

Doherty. Born in 1896 into a family of minor nobility in Russia, she was a nurse in the First World …

Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when Nader Kadhem, a prominent Arab and Muslim thinker, published the first in-depth investigation of …

Ahmed al-Badawi, he found nothing but kindness, nobility, and generosity. His panic was triggered by a …

Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul might be imagined as brothers with wildly different characters but a strong family resemblance. Paul, the elder sibling, was awkward, abrasive, and zealous. Leonard, …

can be found in its receptions and depictions a nobility of bro- kenness that Leonard’s work would also …

Despite common misperceptions, middle-class workers in Sweden—a country often celebrated by social democrats in Canada—pay relatively high taxes for Sweden’s large government. Sweden has a larger government than Canada. Specifically, …

State fraserinstitute.org or guerillas. Sweden’s nobility was small and weak and as long as farmers paid …

Much of what the outside world thinks it knows about the Swedish model is wrong. When American politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez are asked to name …

State fraserinstitute.org or guerillas. Sweden’s nobility was small and weak and as long as farmers paid …