Canadian Politics

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Writing a New Song

Creating Conversations through Theatre

From: Divided

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This chapter includes excerpts and, in the words of Joel Bernbaum and Yvette Nolan, the process behind the play Reasonable Doubt, which is about the killing of Coulten Boushie. The script is … ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Alberta

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

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Reading nearly fifty years of Canadian Dimension’s eye on Alberta is both sobering and heartening. Sobering because one realizes how little the province’s political culture and … 9 $0.90 Add
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Challenging Hate and Discrimination with Awareness and Dialogue

From: Divided

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This essay examines the increase in anti-multicultural statements and hate crimes in Canada in general, and Islamophobia in particular. 8 $0.80 Add
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Morgentaler v. The Queen, 1988

From: The Court and the Charter

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A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada, for various reasons in three opinions, struck down provisions of the Criminal Code making it an offence to procure a miscarriage. The dissenting opinion … ; ; ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Part IV

Intergovernmental Relations

From: Local Government in Practice

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Part IV looks at the power imbalances and other complexities that emerge as local governments interact with higher levels of government to tackle policy solutions that require multiple levels of … ; ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Unity Around a Strong Position

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

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Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel discusses the United Nations Declartion of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the Canadian government’s contradictory positions of claiming to … 4 $0.40 Add
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What Moves Us Now?

The Contradictions of “Community”

From: Whose Streets?

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Chapter 16

Meeting with the Premier

From: Local Government in Practice

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In chapter 16, the reader becomes the CAO who must meet with the premier after a significant and tragic event. In the meeting, the mayor must keep in mind the overlapping and sometimes diverging … ; ; 8 $0.80 Add
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Gosselin v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2002

From: The Court and the Charter

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A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held that a provincial social assistance scheme whose base payments to those under the age of 30 were lower than payments for recipients over 30 was not … ; ; ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Social Protest in the Age of Austerity

Prospects for Mass Resistance after the G20

From: Whose Streets?

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The Party System

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

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1990 article by Janine Brody and Jane Jenson arguing that the Canadian electorate’s support of political parties is not modernized but continues to be differentiated by religion, language … ; ; 6 $0.60 Add
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The Urban Dimension

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

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The monumental incapacity of mainstream organs of knowledge production to offer anything close to a sustained pattern of critical self-reflection means that such efforts fall to alternative … 11 $1.10 Add
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Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2005

From: The Court and the Charter

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A majority of the Supreme Court held that a provincial law prohibiting Quebeckers from taking out private insurance for services available under the public health care plan infringed the Quebec … ; ; ; 21 $2.10 Add