Canadian Politics
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! 1968 in CanadaA Year and Its Legacies |
The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians. … | Andrew C. Holman; Christopher Kirkey; Michael K. Hawes | 400 | 2021 | View |
A People’s Senate For CanadaNot a Pipe Dream! |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Basic Income For CanadiansFrom the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All |
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 AbroadPatterns of Dispossession |
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 |
Boom, Bust and CrisisLabour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada |
Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes ecoterrorism as a social construction. He examines how corporations that profit from animal … | John Peters | 199 | 2012 | View |
NEW! Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s ChallengeWhat It Will Take to Deal with American Decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis |
Neoliberalism arrived in Ottawa with the Mulroney government in 1984, and has continued as widely accepted common sense about government until today. Neoliberalism’s basic tenets – … | Alex Himelfarb | 184 | 2024 | View |
British Columbia Politics and Government |
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 HarperHis ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want |
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 |
NEW! Canada In AfghanistanA story of military, diplomatic, political and media failure 2003-2023 |
Canadian leaders then and now claim great success for Canada’s role in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2014 and beyond. Though 151 Canadians were killed in combat, the Canadian military played a … | Owen Schalk | 200 | 2023 | View |
Canada is Not BackHow Justin Trudeau is in over his head on foreign policy |
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 HistoryA Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture |
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 |
NEW! Canada Vs CaliforniaHow Ottawa took on Netflix and the streaming giants |
Canada vs California provides a road map of the tense battle between Canadian content and California’s billion dollar businesses that threaten to drown it out. Howard Law’s Canada vs. … | Howard Law | 232 | 2024 | View |
Canada’s CourtsA Social Scientists Ground-Breaking Account of the Canadian Judicial System |
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 |
NEW! Canadian PolicingWhy and How It Must Change |
Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change is a comprehensive and critical examination of Canadian policing from its colonial origins to its response to the February 2022 blockades and … | Kent Roach | 276 | 2022 | View |