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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 About Canada: Childcare |
In Canada, early childhood education and care includes childcare programs, kindergartens and nursery schools. When these programs are well-designed, they support children’s development and … | Martha Friendly; Susan Prentice | 176 | 2009 | View |
 About Canada: Public-Private Partnerships |
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: Health & Illness 2nd Edition |
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 … | 192 | View | ||
 About Canada: Animal Rights |
Adopting Mahatma Gandhi’s idea that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated,” this book considers the status of … | John Sorenson | 190 | 2010 | View |
 About Canada: Immigration |
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 … | 144 | View | ||
 About Canada: Children & Youth |
Canada is a signatory on the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which guarantees the protection and care of children and youth. About Canada: Children and Youth examines each … | Bernard Schissel | 122 | 2011 | View |
 About Canada: Queer Rights |
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 … | 144 | View | ||
 About Canada: Media |
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: Disability Rights |
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 |
 About Canada: Poverty |
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: The Environment |
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? … | 176 | View | ||
 NEW! About Canada: Disability Rights2nd Edition |
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 … | 168 | View | ||
 NEW! About Canada: Health and IllnessThird Edition |
The third edition of Health and Illness shows how inequitable distribution of the social determinants of health are determined by public policy decisions. Dennis Raphael updates … | 288 | View | ||
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From  About Contributors |
About Contributors | Ranjan Datta | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
 About FaceEssays on Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies of Addiction in Canada |
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 |
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From  About Quakers and the AuthorFrom: Are We Done Fighting? |
The author explains who Quakers are, and their longstanding interest in responding to violence with peace. The Quaker perspective of the author has informed many of the examples of the book. | Matthew Legge | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
