1. What is the theme of the article?
2. What is the author's argument?
3. How do they set out to prove their case?
4. Was their endeavour successful, why or why not?
Specific questions from Tina Loo's article may include the following:
5. What was W.A.C. Bennett's vision for BC's natural resources?
6. What is the idea of "high modernity"?
7. How did the government and industry view the people of Arrow Lakes?
8. Loo argues that "Columbia development would destroy more than a physical place" what else was at stake?
9. Would you consider the pictures above as natural landscapes? Can industry become an extension of nature or is it impossible to reconcile the 'middle landscape' created by the intrusion of industry? This is merely an opinion question. Think about some of the industrial landscapes that you are most familiar with. What were you perceptions of these as a child? Have they changed over time? Having spent twelve years in three northern Ontario towns (Thunder Bay, Timmins, and Sudbury) the sight of pulp and paper plants, mines, and smelters were an ingrained part of my life. However, that does not mean I have totally accepted them as 'natural'.
Keep some of these thoughts in mind as you are reading MacEachern's, Natural Selections.
Canada and the Human Rights Question-"Not too Schabas"
1. What is this article about?
2. Why would Canada's support or opposition of Human Rights have been so important in the post-war period?
3. What evidence does Schabas use to suggest that Canada was a repressive society during and following the Second World War?
4. How did the Cold War influence or impact the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
5. Is it fair to say that Canada's Department of External Affairs lacked a "human rights culture"?
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