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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
About Canada: Disability Rights Fernwood Publishing	Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and …	Deborah Stienstra	134	2012	View
NEW! About Canada: Disability Rights 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some …	Deborah Stienstra	168	2020	View
About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this …	Dennis Raphael	192	2016	View
About Canada: Immigration Fernwood Publishing	Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and …	Bonnie Slade; Nupur Gogia	144	2011	View
About Canada: Media Fernwood Publishing	Canada enjoys a long-held reputation for producing high-quality media, from National Film Board documentaries to the CBC to children’s programming. But in recent years, funding cuts, …	Peter Steven	176	2011	View
About Canada: Poverty Fernwood Publishing	For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and …	Jim Silver	192	2014	View
About Canada: Public-Private Partnerships Fernwood Publishing	P3s fundamentally transform public infrastructure, public services, labour relations, public sectors and the everyday lives of Canadians. While contracting out services is supposed to save money, …	Heather Whiteside	142	2016	View
About Canada: Queer Rights Fernwood Publishing	Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world – and the first in the Western Hemisphere – to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada …	Peter Knegt	144	2011	View
About Canada: The Environment Fernwood Publishing	As the Earth veers toward a biological tipping point, as resources like water, fish, oil and natural gas become scarcer and as climate change threatens our survival, how is Canada responding? …	Linda Pannozzo	176	2016	View
About Face Essays on Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies of Addiction in Canada Breakwater Books	About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face …	Douglas Gosse	424	2019	View
Academic Freedom in Conflict The Struggle Over Free Speech Rights in the University James Lorimer and Company	For more than a century academics have had unique rights — to speak, teach, and write freely. Central to the case for academic freedom is that scholars must be able to voice their views …	James L Turk	368	2014	View
Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students Fernwood Publishing	Canadian universities have an ongoing history of colonialism and racism in this white-settler society. Racialized students (Indigenous, Black and students of colour), who would once have been …	Benita Bunjun	250	2021	View
Accounting for Culture Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship University of Ottawa Press	Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved …	Caroline Andrew; M. Sharon Jeannotte; Monica Gattinger	286	2005	View
Activism That Works Fernwood Publishing	Activism That Works shares the stories of eight diverse social justice movements, from Oxfam Canada, to the Calgary Raging Grannies, to the Youth Project of Halifax, as they contemplate their own …	Avery Calhoun; Elizabeth Whitmore; Maureen G. Wilson	192	2011	View
Administrative Law Irwin Law Inc.	Administrative law probably touches each of us as citizens in more ways than any other area of law. It is the body of law that ensures that governments (and government officials) deal with us in …	David Mullan	608	2001	View
Advancing Social Rights in Canada Irwin Law Inc.	Canada is at a crossroads. The gap between our national self-image as a country that respects human rights and the reality of socio-economic inequality and exclusion demands a re-engagement with …	Bruce Porter; Martha Jackman	451	2014	View