Christie Blatchford (1951–2020)
Auteur de Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
A propos de l'auteur
Christie Blatchford has been a high-profile Canadian journalist for over 25 years, with columns covering sports, lifestyle, current affairs, and crime. She started working for The Globe and Mail in 1972 while still studying at Ryerson, and has since worked for the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun, and afficher plus the National Post. She returned to The Globe and Mail in 2002. She is a winner of the National Newspaper Award for column writing and her first book. Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army, won the Governor general's Literary Award for Non-fiction in 2008. afficher moins
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Œuvres de Christie Blatchford
Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army (2007) 143 exemplaires
Helpless: Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us (2010) 26 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1951-05-21
- Date de décès
- 2020-02-12
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada
- Lieu du décès
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Études
- Ryerson University
- Professions
- Columnist
journalist (newspaper reporter) - Organisations
- Globe and Mail
National Post
Toronto Sun - Prix et distinctions
- Governor General's Literary Award (non-fiction, 2008) (Canada)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 196
- Popularité
- #111,885
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 13
In this volume, the native protesters and the Ontario Provincial Police do not come out looking very good. The protesters used violence, vandalism and intimidation to reach their goals. Meanwhile, the OPP seemed to have stopped policing the native criminal activities while harassing the towns folk who were inconvenience and in a few cases were actually physically attacked by natives in full view of the police who did nothing to the attackers. OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino appeared to be biased in his view of who the real trouble makers were blaming some of the home owners in Caledonia for the problems when violent physical attacks on non natives by natives were witnessed and filmed by police and others.
Blatchford names perpetrators on both sides of the issue and sometimes there are so many names, one has difficulty keeping them straight. Sometimes she includes quotes that are lost because of unclear editing which meant that I had go back over the text to be sure who made the quote and what they meant.… (plus d'informations)