Discrimination

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Conclusion: With Glowing Hearts

Conclusion: With Glowing Hearts

From: Discrimination Stories

This chapter explores the historical background of Canada’s national anthem. The lyricist and composer are discussed as well as the various changes made to the anthem’s lyrics since … 11 $1.10 Add
Crisis in Canada's Policing

Crisis in Canada’s Policing

Why Change is So Hard, and How We Can Get Real Reform in our Police Forces

In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at … 224 View
Discrimination Stories

Discrimination Stories

Exclusion, Law, and Everyday Life

Despite growing societal and media attention to problems of discrimination in Canadian society, legal concepts in equality and anti-discrimination law are not widely … 224 View
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Envisioning Equality

Envisioning Equality

Analogous Grounds and Farm Workers’ Experience of Discrimination

From: Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada

Discusses equality regarding farmworkers and their experiences of discimination, placing considerable focus on constructing agricultural workers on the margins, Dunmore‘s substantive … 30 $3.00 Add
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Equality

Equality

From: Charter of Rights and Freedoms 6/e

Review of how the Supreme Court has provided a general framework for analyzing equality rights under the Charter, and how the courts have dealt with particular types of discrimination, such as … ; 53 $5.30 Add
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Equitable Freedom and Dancing Shoes

Equitable Freedom and Dancing Shoes

From: Discrimination Stories

This chapter examines how sexual violence at post secondary institutions can fit into the following categories of discrimination: direct, adverse impact, and systemic. The prevalence of sexual … 18 $1.80 Add
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Excluded, Harassed, and Undervalued: The Struggle to Break Systemic Barriers

Excluded, Harassed, and Undervalued: The Struggle to Break Systemic Barriers

From: Discrimination Stories

This chapter examines systemic discrimination by exploring the Action travail des femmes case. The three layers of systemic discrimination are discussed: interactional injustices; organizational … 16 $1.60 Add
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Fighting Institutional Racism

Fighting Institutional Racism

From: Uprooting Racism

The following chapters examine ways racism plays out in some of our major institutions during this period of neoliberal capitalism. Each institution mentioned here reinforces others and … 85 $8.50 Add
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In Your Face
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In Your Face

Legislative Prohibitions of the Niqab

From: In Your Face

This chapter begins with a brief global survey of legal proscriptions of Muslim women’s face veils, while Part II closely examines Canadian attempts to prohibit face veiling through law and … 39 $3.90 Add
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What's in a Face
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What’s in a Face

Demeanor Evidence and Niqab-Wearing Women in Courtrooms

From: In Your Face

This chapter analyzes opposition to the niqab in courtroom settings. 35 $3.50 Add
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Piercing the Veil of Ignorance
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Piercing the Veil of Ignorance

Niqab-Wearing Women and the Adjudication of Sexual Assault

From: In Your Face

Part I of this chapter addresses women’s experiences with the judicial system in the context of sexual assault. Part II closely examines a Canadian case in which a niqab-wearing sexual … 36 $3.60 Add
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Niqab-Wearing Women's Resistance in the Face of Oppressive Governmental Tactics and Popular Beliefs
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Niqab-Wearing Women’s Resistance in the Face of Oppressive Governmental Tactics and Popular Beliefs

From: In Your Face

In this chapter, Bahkt discusses how niqab-wearing women and their allies deploy multiple strategies to subvert dominant perceptions of who niqab-women are and what they stand for. 30 $3.00 Add
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Freedom of Conscience and Religion

Freedom of Conscience and Religion

From: Charter of Rights and Freedoms 6/e

Review of Sunday closing laws, accommodation of religion, parental rights and education in the context of the s. 2(d) “freedom of religion” clause and its relation to other Charter values. ; 26 $2.60 Add
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Introduction
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Introduction

Meet Your Neighbours

From: In Your Face

In the introduction, the author outlines the reasons why some women choose to wear the niqab, and the flagrant disregard for these women’s basic dignity and human rights. 17 $1.70 Add
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From Sexual to Psychological Harassment

From Sexual to Psychological Harassment

One Step Forward, Twenty-five Years Back for Women's Equality at Work?

From: 14 Arguments in Favour of Human Rights Institutions

Discussion of the implications of framing sexual or racial or other kinds of discriminatory harassment in the workplace as psychological harassment. 42 $4.20 Add
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Governments as Interpreters and Shapers of Human Rights

Governments as Interpreters and Shapers of Human Rights

From: 14 Arguments in Favour of Human Rights Institutions

Discussion of the role and obligations of governments and their legal representatives, as interpreters and shapers of human rights law, when they are engaged in statutory human rights litigation. 32 $3.20 Add