Canadian Politics

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A People’s Senate For Canada Not a Pipe Dream! Fernwood Publishing	A People’s Senate for Canada combines grassroots experience, thorough research and critical commentary to create a people’s resource for positive change. This book offers a rationale, …	Helen Forsey	143	2015	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: 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
NEW! Basic Income For Canadians From the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All James Lorimer and Company	Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put …	Evelyn L. Forget	258	2020	View
Bombardier Abroad Patterns of Dispossession Fernwood Publishing	In Bombardier Abroad, Thomas examines several cases of the Canadian aerospace giant’s work in the high-speed rail sector in South Africa, China/Tibet, and Israel/Palestine and argues that …	David P. Thomas	164	2018	View
British Columbia Politics and Government Emond Montgomery	British Columbia remains Canada’s most politically dynamic province. This book — which includes coverage of the 2009 provincial election — provides an overview of BC’s …	Dennis Pilon; Michael Howlett; Tracy Summerville	426	2009	View
Canada after Harper His ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want James Lorimer and Company	Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has …	Ed Finn	400	2015	View
Canada is Not Back How Justin Trudeau is in over his head on foreign policy James Lorimer and Company	The election in October 2015 of the Justin Trudeau government was widely considered to herald a new approach to foreign affairs for Canada. Trudeau had campaigned as a staunch advocate for a …	Jocelyn Coulon	208	2019	View
Canada Since 1960: A People’s History A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture James Lorimer and Company	When Winnipeg's Cy Gonick started the magazine Canadian Dimension in 1963 to provide a home for the thinking and analysis of mostly young leftists engaged in Canadian economic, social, …	Cy Gonick	576	2016	View
Canada’s Courts A Social Scientists Ground-Breaking Account of the Canadian Judicial System James Lorimer and Company	A unique discussion of the judicial system in Canada, this is the first book on the court system to be written from a social science, rather than a legal, perspective. McCormick analyzes which …	Peter McCormick	234	1994	View
Care and Consequences The Impact of Health Care Reform Fernwood Publishing	Over the past decade health care in Canada has shifted from a cure-care model to a business model. Disguised behind talk of community, care closer to home, consumer choice, patient rights, …	Diana L. Gustafson	325	2000	View
Defending a Contested Ideal Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908–2008 University of Ottawa Press	In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, …	Luc Juillet	265	2008	View
Democratizing the Constitution Reforming Responsible Government Emond Montgomery	Canada’s time-honoured system of responsible government is failing us. This principle, by which the executive must be accountable to the people’s elected representatives, was fought …	Lori Turnbull; Mark Jarvis; Peter Aucoin	274	2011	View
Doctors in Denial Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort James Lorimer and Company	Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of …	Joel Lexchin MD	344	2017	View
Equal as Citizens The tumultuous and troubled history of a great Canadian idea Formac Publishing	No matter where they live, Canadians expect and receive equal benefits from their government when it comes to old age pensions, consular services when travelling abroad, and airline safety. …	Richard Starr	312	2014	View
Fastest in the World The Saga of Canada's Revolutionary Hydrofoils Formac Publishing	Like the builders of the Avro Arrow, the pioneers of hydrofoils are celebrated in this book for their world-class accomplishments. When Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with flying …	John Boileau	98	2004	View