Discrimination

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Challenging Discriminatory and Punitive Responses to Homelessness in Canada

From: Advancing Social Rights in Canada

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Argument in favour of rights-driven legislative and regulatory responses to homelessness. ; 32 $3.20 Add
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Chapter 5

The War on Drugs

From: The Colour of Justice

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Chapter five is devoted to the "war on drugs" and its impact on racial profiling in policing, especially on Blacks in Ontario and on Southeast Asians in Vancouver. The chapter looks at … 9 $0.90 Add
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Equitable Freedom and Dancing Shoes

From: Discrimination Stories

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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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Fighting Institutional Racism

From: Uprooting Racism

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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

Legislative Prohibitions of the Niqab

From: In Your Face

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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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Recruitment, Training, Management

From: Crisis in Canada's Policing

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This chapter explores the hiring practices of Canadian police departments, and how these practices have a deleterious effect on police efficacy. ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Religious Schools

From: Freedom of Conscience and Religion

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Discussion of the funding and regulation of religious schools and separate or denominational schools. 16 $1.60 Add
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Caring about Equality in Indigenous Communities

From: Discrimination Stories

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This chapter examines the discrimination faced by Indigenous communities in Canada. It discusses "Jordan’s Principle" and the case that led to it as well as the case of Jeremy … 15 $1.50 Add
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The War on Gangs

From: The Colour of Justice

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The War on Gangs, chapter six, delves into how the fear of street gangs has impacted racial profiling. The chapter looks at the ideas around gangs in policing, the Criminal Intelligence Service … 8 $0.80 Add
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Niqab-Wearing Women’s Resistance in the Face of Oppressive Governmental Tactics and Popular Beliefs

From: In Your Face

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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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What Is to Be Done

The concluding chapter offers a short but not exhaustive list of practical, reasonably achieved changes that could be made if local leaders step forward and demand that police begin to grapple … ; 35 $3.50 Add
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Afterword

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The War on Terrorism

From: The Colour of Justice

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Chapter seven considers the impact of the War on Terror, on racial profiling in Canada, first by looking at the impact on a young Somali-Canadian whose business facilitated money- transfers to … 13 $1.30 Add
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Conclusion

Towards a New Future

From: In Your Face

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In the conclusion, the author suggests several "micro-practices" that can help shift away from attitudes that emphasize difference, fear, and misunderstanding to those that stress … 11 $1.10 Add
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Questions, Questions

Has Weber Had an Impact on Unions’ Representational Responsibilities in Workplace Human Rights Disputes?

From: One Law for All?

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Proposal for a research agenda for properly evaluating the changing nature of unions’ human rights representational obligations since Weber. 26 $2.60 Add
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Seeking Justice and Belonging: The Complexity of Identity

From: Discrimination Stories

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This chapter examines the dysfunctionality of traditional legal categories of anti-discrimination law and how these categories engage with identity. Intersectionality and identity performance are … 14 $1.40 Add