The winners of the annual awards will be announced prior to the Canada Prizes ceremony on May 7, from 4:30 to 5:30pm, at the Centre of Excellence for French-language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education at 91亚色鈥檚 Glendon campus. The ceremony will be followed by a reception. The selection of Glendon as the site for the ceremony is the result of a new partnership with the Federation for the Humanities & Social Sciences and 91亚色. Members of the 91亚色 community are invited to attend the Canada Prizes ceremony, RSVP online聽(Event Code: 882)聽by May 5.

Lisa Philipps

鈥淕lendon was identified as an ideal location to host this national event in light of its bilingual mandate and its unique focus on education in the humanities and social sciences. We are really excited to be working with the federation to celebrate the excellence of Canadian scholarship in these disciplines,鈥� said Lisa Philipps, AVP research and a member of the federation鈥檚 board.

The Canada Prizes are adjudicated by a group of leading academics and public intellectuals, as exemplified by this year鈥檚 distinguished jury panel, which includes previous winners of the award.聽 Michael Adams, CEO of Environics and a juror for this year鈥檚 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, will give keynote remarks at the event.

This year, Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir (2013, University of Calgary Press) authored 91亚色 Professor Emeritus of History Christopher Armstrong with 91亚色 Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of History Viv H. Nelles, and Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade (2013, University of Toronto Press) by 91亚色 alumnus Dimitry Anastakis (MA 鈥�95, PhD 鈥�02), are in the running for a Canada Prize.

Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. It tells the story of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over Aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to coal-produced electricity. It is also a lively national story, involving the irrepressible and impetuous Max Aitkin (later Lord Beaverbook), R.B. Bennett (local legal advisor and later prime minister), and a series of local politicians and bureaucrats whose contributions confuse and conflate issues along the way. (Source: University of Calgary Press)

Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade聽provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country鈥檚 most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In his book, Anastakis, who is professor of history at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., chronicles the industry鈥檚 evolution from the 1973 OPEC embargo to the 1989 Canada鈥揢S Free Trade Agreement and looks at its effects on public policy, diplomacy, business enterprise, workers, consumers, and firms. Using an immense array of archival sources, and interviews with some of the key actors in the events, Anastakis examines important topics in recent auto industry and Canadian business and economic history.

Awarded annually by the Federation, the celebrate the best Canadian scholarly books鈥攏ot simply within a single academic discipline, but across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. The prizes are awarded to books that make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada.

To learn more about the other books short listed for the prizes, visit the website.

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鈥淚 am proud that we are able to provide opportunities for the growing Francophone population right here at 91亚色鈥檚 Glendon Campus,鈥� said Mamdouh Shoukri, president & vice-chancellor of 91亚色. 鈥淭he Centre of Excellence for French-language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education will help to accommodate an increased student base, will attract more international students and allow 91亚色 to offer a broad international curriculum so that we can continue to educate Canada鈥檚 future leaders.鈥�

A concept drawing of the new Glendon College Centre of Excellence

The centre will enable Glendon to broaden its range of programs and courses in response to the urgent need for increased postsecondary offerings in French in southern Ontario. Supported by a $20-million investment by the Government of Ontario, the expansion project builds on Glendon鈥檚 existing facilities to include more than a dozen new classrooms and lecture spaces, state-of-the art language labs, open study spaces and a 250-seat amphitheatre.

These improvements will allow Glendon to provide better access to French-language higher education for francophone learners in southern Ontario, as well as anglophone students wishing to study in French. It will strengthen the delivery of collaborative French-language university and college programming, including:

• Bilingual and trilingual international Bachelor of Arts (iBA) degrees available across 18 disciplines.
• New doctoral program in 脡tudes francophones.
• Enhanced bilingual activities outside the classroom.
• A master鈥檚 program in conference interpretation.
• A unique, direct-entry for future French teachers available at the primary-junior, junior-intermediate, and intermediate-senior levels, offered through 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education.
• Collaboration with Coll猫ge Bor茅al and la Cit茅 coll茅giale.

鈥淲e are pleased that the Government of Ontario has invested these funds to make Glendon College a Centre of Excellence for French-language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education, and excited to officially open this new facility,鈥� said Glendon Principal Kenneth McRoberts. 鈥淪outhern Ontario is seeing significant growth in terms of the Francophone population and we are now better-equipped to meet this demand.鈥�

The ceremony will feature remarks by Shoukri; Ottawa Vanier MPP Madeleine Meilleur, minister of community safety & correctional services and minister responsible for Francophone affairs; Kathleen Wynne, MPP for Don Valley West, and McRoberts.

"By investing in this Centre of Excellence, our government is helping to provide more learners with new opportunities to further their French-language studies in southern Ontario,鈥� said Glen Murray, MPP for Toronto Centre and minister of training, colleges and universities. 鈥淲e congratulate Glendon on their plans to provide a wide range of exciting and innovative programs to their students.鈥�

鈥淭he McGuinty government is proud to support Glendon College鈥檚 Centre of Excellence, which helps Francophones and Francophiles to have full access to French-language postsecondary education while encouraging their participation in an inclusive and open Ontario,鈥� said Meilleur.

鈥淚 am pleased with our $20-million investment in the Centre of Excellence for French-language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education at 91亚色鈥檚 Glendon College. This new facility will enable Glendon to provide a broader range of programs and courses in French in southern Ontario," said Wynne.

The Glendon Campus of 91亚色 is the only institution in southern Ontario that offers a range of university programs in French. Glendon has established a bilingual Graduate Program in Public & International Affairs 鈥� the centerpiece of the Glendon School of Public & International Affairs, Canada鈥檚 first fully bilingual graduate school of this type. Along with the Graduate Program in Public & International Affairs, Glendon also offers a double master鈥檚 degree with the University of Strasbourg.

Republished courtesy of YFile鈥� 91亚色鈥檚 daily e-bulletin.

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