---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:06:56 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inroads #8 is on the newstands. It is 248 pages long, and has more and, overall, better articles than any previous issue. Inroads fills a void that the daily press, driven by deadlines, and academic journals, stuck in the jargon carved ruts of their disciplines, cannot. In Inroads, academics and journalists write free of the constraints of their professions, and a broad range of policy wonks make their case. A major political event this year is the signing of a social union agreement. Claude Ryan's lead article is the most thorough analysis yet written of the agreement. INROADS #8 returns once again to the controversial matter of language policy and the place of francophones in Canada. Charles Castonguay takes on StatsCan's unwarranted optimism over the fate of francophones outside Quebec. Linda Cardinal analyses how Ottawa's version of official bilingualism has pitted francophones inside and outside Quebec against one another. Ray Conlogue asks why francophones are absent from most English-Canadian artistic production. Editor John Richards writes a eulogy for Camille Laurin. >From Quebec to the West. In this issue's Inroads roundtable, editor Arthur Milner assembled a wide range of articulate Albertans and allowed them to dissect the contemporary state of their province. Gordon Gibson tackles the Nisga'a Treaty and helps those east of the Rockies understand why it has become a subject of heated public debate in BC. Phil Resnick analyses incidents of political correctness in three universities. The third INROADS editor, Henry Milner, was out of the country during much of the past year, which prompted him to solicit articles on contemporary Europe. His personal contribution is a journalistic report from the campaign trail in Germany and Sweden during their elections late last year. Axel van den Berg reports on research contrasting attitudes among workers and union leaders in Sweden and Canada. Eric Shaw explains why he prefers his Labour Party to be "old" rather than "new." In a chapter from his forthcoming book, Larry Pratt explores public attitudes towards mental illness, and the struggle required to get sustained public attention to the needs of the mentally ill. There's more. Bill Schabas wrote in INROADS #6 on the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. In a moving account, he returns to the scene. Paul Reed and Gary Caldwell explain why people in Saskatchewan are more civic minded than Quebecers. Robert Campbell explores why "snail mail" is more sluggish in Canada than in many other countries, and Laurent Dobuzinskis compares Canadian policy institutes' take on globalization. There's also Harvey Schachter's selection from the Inroads chatline, in which readers exchanged perceptions of Quebec politics in the runup to the recent provincial election and indulged in some Proustian recollections of their youthful political attitudes. For more information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henry Milner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professeur Associé, Département de science politique, Université Laval Fellow, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University 3777 ave. Kent, Montreal (QC) Canada, H3S 1N4 Information about Inroads-L The Inroads WWW Site is located at: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~inroads/ To post to the INROADS-L list, send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" To unsubscribe, send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe inroads-l Questions for the list owners to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" *************************************************************************
