War
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties. The scholarly study of war is sometimes called polemology ( POL-ə-MOL-ə-jee), from the Greek polemos, meaning "war", and -logy, meaning "the study …
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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 12 April 2024 English
"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 …
increased.7 A soldier who had served in many theatres of war throughout the Atlantic world enthused about the … Upper Fort Garry every summer. The American Civil War had just ended, and railways promised to transform …
FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 11 April 2024 English
135 • APRIL 2024 FRONTIER BACKGROUNDER ESG AND THE NEW ECO-COLONIALISM Eco-colonialism and ESG “...activists Enter another form of eco-colonialism.often carry an Eco-colonialism refers to the practices of some non-Indigenous …
and The Associated Press, “Congress Has Declared War against ‘woke’ ESG Investing. What Is ESG and Why … 2023, https://fortune.com/2023/03/01/congress- war-against-woke-esg-investing-what-is-esg/. 8. Sylvie … com/2023/03/01/congress-war-against-woke-esg-investing-what-is-esg/ https://fortune.com/2023/03/01/congress-war-agains …
FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 10 April 2024
135 • APRIL 2024 FRONTIER BACKGROUNDER ESG AND THE NEW ECO-COLONIALISM Eco-colonialism and ESG “...activists Enter another form of eco-colonialism.often carry an Eco-colonialism refers to the practices of some non-Indigenous …
and The Associated Press, “Congress Has Declared War against ‘woke’ ESG Investing. What Is ESG and Why … 2023, https://fortune.com/2023/03/01/congress- war-against-woke-esg-investing-what-is-esg/. 8. Sylvie … com/2023/03/01/congress-war-against-woke-esg-investing-what-is-esg/ https://fortune.com/2023/03/01/congress-war-agains …
IRPP: Institut de recherche en politiques publiques · 9 April 2024 English
A report by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (2023) noted that, between the fourth quarter of 2019 and the fourth quarter of 2022, the lowest-quintile households were not …
greatly affected by external factors such as the war in Ukraine, supply-chain dis- ruptions following …
Fraser Institute · 9 April 2024 English
Between 2009 and 2023, federal and provincial governments have increased personal income taxes on upper-income earners by raising the top marginal income tax rate. The largest combined (federal and provincial) …
marginal rate in the years between World War I and World War II on those earning the highest income had …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 8 April 2024 English
The current focus is on the strategic Russia and China, as well as the implications importance of satellite ground stations in the of the involvement of the North Atlantic Treaty …
conflict scenarios. in space activities during the Cold War until the mid-2000s, private companies are now quickly … enterprise. This occurs First World War. After the Second World War, space in both civilian activities … Sputnik into space in 1957 and Yuri Gagarin support to war fighters. Therefore, commercial in 1961 were nothing … presupposes an enlargement of the dimension of war. 2 CIGI Papers No. 291 — April 2024 • Gregory Falco … interesting example of the collateral damage First Gulf War, fought by a US-led international that attacks against …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 5 April 2024
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores …
Canada for eighteen months during the Second World War. His personal experience certainly connects to his …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 5 April 2024 English
In The Cancer Plot, Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman examine the striking presence of cancer in Marvel comics. Engaging comics studies, medical humanities, and graphic medicine, they explore this disease …
on the social issues of the day: the Vietnam War, the War on Drugs, the impact of 9/11, the rise of surveillance … outside medicine: we battle with the disease in a “War on Cancer.”6 Likewise Marvel takes up cancer as … where I may speak, there’s as much discussion of war and peace, civil rights, and the so-called youth … Figure 0-2 Aaron et al., “When the Ice Lords Make War,” Thor #3, 2014, p. 14 (© Marvel). There is a correlation …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 5 April 2024 English
Mixing recipes, maps, archival records, biographies, and full-colour photographs with fascinating stories, mmm... Manitoba showcases the province’s diverse foodways and industries from on board the Manitoba Food History Truck.
Second World War: in 1931, there were only fifty-one in the province. During the Second World War, Japanese … Manitoban population remained low for decades after the war: only 1,161 in 1951, and 1,335 in 1971.63 It is therefore … License Inspector, the Winnipeg branch of the Great War Veterans’ Association, as well as F.H. Barber, vice-president …
CMA: Canadian Medical Association · 4 April 2024 English
about his time in the psych iatry and nosology, to draw the line After my grandfather passed and my war, his life at home, the things he saw between normal and abnormal when grandmother had been diagnosed …
She would his speech,” I was stunned. When the war. They settled down with thousands of always tell … draw the line After my grandfather passed and my war, his life at home, the things he saw between normal …
