Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands: One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2022

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On her way to a better paying job at an OPTI-Nexen camp, where workers stay 24/7, Kate’s Somali taxi driver tells her: “You be careful, young girl. You live here, they don’t. Do you know how people treat a place where they don’t live?” D+Q to Publish Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant". Drawn & Quarterly. 12 January 2011 . Retrieved 3 August 2011. Of Scottish descent, Beaton grew up with her three sisters in Mabou on the isle of Cape Breton. [2] She went to a small school for K–12, only having 23 people in her class. [3] She graduated from Mount Allison University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and anthropology. [4] An ambitiously complex graphic narrative of a Nova Scotian woman’s experience working in the oil sands of Fort McMurray, Alberta. I can honestly say this format did not appeal to me. However, I think there are a number of important messages here that Beaton shares. And they are disturbing ones.

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Beaton's first children's book, The Princess and the Pony, was released in 2015. [33] In 2016, she published the picture book King Baby.Similarly, she makes a convincing case for the damaging nature of the business. Hopefully things are different today with the proliferation of smartphones/wifi making boredom less of an issue, as well as the openness of talking about mental health possibly cutting down on the destructive behaviour of men who bottled it up until it exploded out of them. The book is about big, complicated issues: economic exploitation, misogyny, the abuse and disregard of Indigenous land and people, class, education, upward mobility, labor, environmental destruction, sexual harassment and assault, toxic industrial waste, power, history, complicity, identity, loss, sacrifice, family, home. The ground the book covers is far too broad and in-depth to go into in one review. But Beaton touches on these myriad complex subjects gently. Everything is told through conversations she had or overheard. It's never didactic or ponderous. She lets us make the connections ourselves. a b c "Congratulations to the Harvey Award Recipients!". Archived from the original on 15 March 2016 . Retrieved 13 September 2012.

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This book is a window into so many critical conversations about the environment, about Indigenous land rights, about the student debt crisis and about gender relations. So there is an angle for every person to have their perspective shifted in some way." Concerns about oil extraction's environmental pollution and impact on indigenous people are also brought up, but more as side notes needing more exploration. Shimo, Alexandra (13 March 2009). "Making fun of Canadian history". Maclean's . Retrieved 28 March 2009. A graphic memoir recounting 2 years Beaton spent working at the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, far from her eastern coastal home of Nova Scotia.At the cost of our lives-as long as they get their money. They don't care how many of us they kill off.’ Powerful and brilliant, this is easily the best graphic work I’ve read this year.”—Margaret Kingsbury, Buzzfeed Books Mattea Roach is the most successful Canadian competitor in Jeopardy! history. In the spring of 2022, they won a record-setting 23 games. They appeared in the 2022 edition of Jeopardy!'s tournament of champions and will star in the Jeopardy! Masters spin-off.