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This paper compares the public indebtedness of the Canadian provinces and the US states (including a share of the federal debt) over the 2000–2007 period. It presents rankings of the most indebted subnational jurisdictions based on five public debt concepts. Among the provinces, Quebec (with the lowest average rank) and Alberta (with the highest average rank) display the most stable position across the rankings. All other provinces show important fluctuations in their position in the rankings. Hence, allocating the federal debt to subnational states and the specific debt concept being considered significantly influence the rankings, quite spectacularly in some instances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this critical commentary on the political uses of memory in contemporary Canada, the author examines the conscription of the Canadian past by the Harper government since it came to power in 2006. He shows how the conservatives' reconstruction of the nation's past serves their broader project of reconstructing the nation tout court. Moreover, he presents the various strategies they have deployed to remake Canada's history in their own image: the increased emphasis on military history and on the ties that bind Canadians to the monarchy; the endeavour to cast the War of 1812 and the First World War as foundational events in the making of modern Canada; the creation of the Canadian Museum of History. The author also discusses the dismantling of Library and Archives Canada, the main repository of the nation's memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ARUC Work History Project in New-Brunswick (LHTNB) aims to show that the labour experience is an important and essential part of New Brunswick's provincial heritage. Through partnerships with different community organizations, the research team organized public activities and participated in collaboration projects in many regions of the province. The aim of this essay is two-fold: first the author evaluates the nature and the efficiency of the partnerships developed in Madawaska, an Acadian region of New Brunswick. Did the research team succeed in developing genuine partnerships in Madawaska? Was there a real sense of "sharing authority" between the research team and its community partners in that region? What has been public's role since the project began? Second, the author analyzes the effect of public activities and collaboration projects on the Madawaska community and attempts to draw conclusions from what the research team has learned from these experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]