Hunting the Northern Character

Tony Penikett

ISBN 10: 0774880007 / ISBN 13: 9780774880008

Published by University Of British Columbia Press Nov 2017, 2017

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Neuware - Tony Penikett spent twenty-five years in public life, including two years in the House of Commons as chief of staff to federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent, five terms in the Yukon Legislative Assembly, and two terms as premier of Yukon Territory. His government negotiated settlements of Yukon First Nation land claims and passed pioneering legislation in the areas of education, health, and language. It also organized Yukon 2000, a unique bottom-up economic-planning process. Between 1997 and 2001, he served as deputy minister of negotiations and, later, as deputy minister of labour for the BC government. He is the author of one book, Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making in British Columbia, and two films, The Mad Trapper and La Patrouille Perdue.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hunting the Northern Character
• Publisher: University Of British Columbia Press Nov 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774880007
• ISBN 13: 9780774880008
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 152H x 28D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 640 grams

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Synopsis

Canadian politicians, like many of their circumpolar counterparts, brag about their country’s “Arctic identity” or “northern character,” but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Dudley Do-Right to Northern Exposure, but these southern perspectives fail to capture northern realities. During decades of service as a legislator, mediator, and negotiator, Tony Penikett witnessed a new northern consciousness grow out of the challenges of the Cold War, climate change, land rights struggles, and the boom and bust of resource megaprojects. His lively account of clashes and accommodations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders not only retraces the footsteps of his hunt for a northern identity but tells the story of an Arctic that the world does not yet know.

About the Author

Tony Penikett spent twenty-five years in public life, including two years in the House of Commons as chief of staff to federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent, five terms in the Yukon Legislative Assembly, and two terms as premier of Yukon Territory. He is the author of one book, Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making, and two films, The Mad Trapper and La Patrouille Perdue.