Discrimination
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From  Conclusion: With Glowing HeartsFrom: 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 … | Colleen Sheppard | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
 Crisis in Canada’s PolicingWhy 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 StoriesExclusion, 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 … | Colleen Sheppard | 224 | 2021 | View |
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From  Envisioning EqualityAnalogous Grounds and Farm Workers’ Experience of Discrimination |
Discusses equality regarding farmworkers and their experiences of discimination, placing considerable focus on constructing agricultural workers on the margins, Dunmore‘s substantive … | Fay Faraday | 30 | 2012 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Equality |
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 … | Kent Roach; Robert J. Sharpe | 53 | 2017 | $5.30 Add |
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From Equitable Freedom and Dancing ShoesFrom: 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 … | Colleen Sheppard | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From Excluded, Harassed, and Undervalued: The Struggle to Break Systemic BarriersFrom: 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 … | Colleen Sheppard | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Fighting Institutional RacismFrom: 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 … | Paul Kivel | 85 | 2017 | $8.50 Add |
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From  NEW! In Your FaceLegislative 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 … | Natasha Bakht | 39 | 2020 | $3.90 Add |
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From NEW! What’s in a FaceDemeanor Evidence and Niqab-Wearing Women in Courtrooms From: In Your Face |
This chapter analyzes opposition to the niqab in courtroom settings. | Natasha Bakht | 35 | 2020 | $3.50 Add |
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From NEW! Piercing the Veil of IgnoranceNiqab-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 … | Natasha Bakht | 36 | 2020 | $3.60 Add |
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From NEW! Niqab-Wearing Women’s Resistance in the Face of Oppressive Governmental Tactics and Popular BeliefsFrom: 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. | Natasha Bakht | 30 | 2020 | $3.00 Add |
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From Freedom of Conscience and Religion |
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. | Kent Roach; Robert J. Sharpe | 26 | 2017 | $2.60 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionMeet 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. | Natasha Bakht | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From  From Sexual to Psychological HarassmentOne Step Forward, Twenty-five Years Back for Women's Equality at Work? |
Discussion of the implications of framing sexual or racial or other kinds of discriminatory harassment in the workplace as psychological harassment. | Rachel Cox | 42 | 2014 | $4.20 Add |
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From Governments as Interpreters and Shapers of Human Rights |
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. | Gwen Brodsky | 32 | 2014 | $3.20 Add |
