Peter Mansbridge
Autore di Extraordinary Canadians: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation
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Fonte dell'immagine: Peter Mansbridge
Opere di Peter Mansbridge
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Mansbridge, Peter
- Nome legale
- Mansbridge, Peter
- Data di nascita
- 1948-07-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Stratford, Ontario, Canada
- Attività lavorative
- reporter (1971 | 1988)
news anchor
Chancellor (Mount Allison University | 2010)
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How Canada Works: The People Who Make Our Nation… di Peter Mansbridge
In his career, culminating as CBC news anchor for the National, Peter Mansbriidge has interviewed many famous people. In this book, however, he turns his attention to everyday Canadians and the jobs they do that keep Canada running. No less fascinating for not being famous, they subjects of these portraits tell us about what they do and why it matters. It's easy to see Mr. Mansbridge's interviewing skills here as he allows each person to shine, and never inserts himself into their story.
There are many good people among us. Most don't get recognized. The ones in this book deserve Manbridge's focus.
[Extraordinary Canadians: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation], [[Peter Mansbridge]], [[Mark Bulgutch]]
This book was not what I expected but was so much more. I thought it would be about Canadians whose name I would recognize, from history or the news. Instead it was about ‘ordinary’ Canadians who took steps to make their lives extraordinary. People who lived through the circumstances live gave them and used what they learned to educate and do good for others. There are seventeen stories in total, the majority about single individuals.
Hope Swinimer from Nova Scotia who studied to be an accountant so she could manage a veterinarian clinic and opened the first wildlife rescue and rehabilitation shelter in the province. Jessica Grossman, now an actor and model, from age 8 to 13 lived in and out of hospital in agonizing abdominal pain, she couldn’t sleep or eat. She had Crohn’s disease and it wasn’t until she had surgery at age 13 and got an ostomy bag that she could live her life. She took up educating people about ‘the bag’ through a blog and public speaking. Bill Campbell started successful not-for-profit housings projects in Prince Edward Island. Robb Nash does about 250 musical performances in schools annually helping students deal with depression and suicidal thoughts. He has been there, he knows.
There are more interesting people and their stories, each told in the words of the subject. This adds to the interest ad variety of the book.
The author, Peter Mansbridge, worked for the CBC and ended his career as the top broadcast journalist in the country. What he does, he does well. The book was published in 2020 and includes an article on an emergency room nurse in Vancouver planning how to treat COVID-19. Even if you aren’t Canadian the people will appeal to you.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reviewed May 7, 2021… (altro)
This book was not what I expected but was so much more. I thought it would be about Canadians whose name I would recognize, from history or the news. Instead it was about ‘ordinary’ Canadians who took steps to make their lives extraordinary. People who lived through the circumstances live gave them and used what they learned to educate and do good for others. There are seventeen stories in total, the majority about single individuals.
Hope Swinimer from Nova Scotia who studied to be an accountant so she could manage a veterinarian clinic and opened the first wildlife rescue and rehabilitation shelter in the province. Jessica Grossman, now an actor and model, from age 8 to 13 lived in and out of hospital in agonizing abdominal pain, she couldn’t sleep or eat. She had Crohn’s disease and it wasn’t until she had surgery at age 13 and got an ostomy bag that she could live her life. She took up educating people about ‘the bag’ through a blog and public speaking. Bill Campbell started successful not-for-profit housings projects in Prince Edward Island. Robb Nash does about 250 musical performances in schools annually helping students deal with depression and suicidal thoughts. He has been there, he knows.
There are more interesting people and their stories, each told in the words of the subject. This adds to the interest ad variety of the book.
The author, Peter Mansbridge, worked for the CBC and ended his career as the top broadcast journalist in the country. What he does, he does well. The book was published in 2020 and includes an article on an emergency room nurse in Vancouver planning how to treat COVID-19. Even if you aren’t Canadian the people will appeal to you.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Reviewed May 7, 2021… (altro)
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- Opere
- 5
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- 1
- Utenti
- 123
- Popolarità
- #162,201
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 12