NEWS
Maura's popular writing workshop Writing from Life/Writing from Your Experience is being offered on Saturday, Nov. 22, 20008 at the HB Creativity office in downtown St. John's."
Maura has an article in the Fall 2008 issue of Food, Culture and Society : "Tracing Social Change among the Inuit and Inuit-Metis: What does the nutrition literature tell us?"
Maura's latest book, The Alphabet Fleet: The Pride of Newfoundland's Coastal Service, was favourably reviewed in Steamboat Bill, the magazine of the Steamship Historical Society of America, headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. In his review, Charles Bogart writes: "The book is graced with excellent maps, great pictures, and a readable text . . .this book is a must on your reading list."
Maura recently completed a research report on Canada's human rights record over the past four years. My client was an international NGO in consultative status with the United Nations. This report will become part of the Universal Periodic Review; the UPR is process through which the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights calls countries to account for their human rights records.
Maura's article on the history of beer in Newfoundland appears in the fall issue of Occasions, the Newfoundland Liquor Corporation magazine. Copies are available at all NLC outlets.
Maura has an article in the Spring 2008 issue of the Native Studies Review: "Resisting Colonialism in Nova Scotia: The Kesukwitk Mi'kmaq, Centralization, and Residential Schooling."
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