Civil Liberties

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A House Divided From: Gay Marriage View James Lorimer and Company	The opposition forces get more organized and the division in the house of commons is thoroughly explored	Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque	18	2006	$1.80 Add
From A Human Right — Or Is It? From: Gay Marriage View James Lorimer and Company	Examines the 2005 debate on Bill C-38 in the house of commons and the arguments made by the leaders of the political parties	Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque	19	2006	$1.90 Add
From A Nakba of Olives The West Bank Wall From: Walls View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter focuses on the West Bank Wall, which divides Israeli and Palestinian/Arab populations and territory. Israelis have described this wall as necessary to stop terrorism and defend their …	Marcello Di Cintio	30	2013	$3.00 Add
From A Wall of Brick and Rage From: Whose Streets? View Between The Lines	From Whose Streets?: The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest	Nicole Tanguay	2	2011	$0.20 Add
From Academic Freedom Is Not Free Speech From: Rethinking Free Speech View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Ives distinguishes academic freedom from free speech within the Canadian legal landscape.	Peter Ives	28	2024	$2.80 Add
From Acknowledgements and Preface From: Rethinking Free Speech View Fernwood Publishing	The preface to Rethinking Free Speech distinguishes free speech from academic freedom, drawing on the 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University incident and the 1988 murder of Mulugeta Seraw in Portland, Oregon.	Peter Ives	7	2024	$0.70 Add
From Afterword From: Uprooting Racism View New Society Publishers	I write about neoliberalism, the current stage of global capitalism. This is a system of power, wealth, and control by ruling elites currently centered in the US and Europe; neoliberals use …	Paul Kivel	3	2017	$0.30 Add
From Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia, 1989 From: The Court and the Charter View Emond Montgomery	A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held that a citizenship requirement in the provincial Barristers and Solicitors Act breached equality rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and …	Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman	17	2017	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Australia: Reining in Tech Contractors, Examining the challenges of outsourcing key government roles and responsibilities to corporate tech actors — and how our governance must evolve to constrain their power From: Open Governments, Secret Canada View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Malone examines how governments in liberal democracies outsource critical public services to private technology firms, granting those firms secrecy protections that undermine …	Matt Malone	18	2026	$1.80 Add
From Auton v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2004 From: The Court and the Charter View Emond Montgomery	The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously held that the Province of British Columbia’s refusal to fund a particular treatment for preschool-aged autistic children did not breach the equality …	Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman	9	2017	$0.90 Add
From Blazing the Trail From: Gay Marriage View James Lorimer and Company	Provides a time-line of the fight for Marriage eqality in Canada from the 1970s through to the passing of Bill C-23 in 2000 which recognized same-sex common-law unions	Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque	27	2006	$2.70 Add
From Building a Protest Convergence The Toronto Community Mobilization Network From: Whose Streets? View Between The Lines	This chapter discusses how the Toronto Community Mobilization Network started preparing, months ahead of time, for oppositional events during the G20 meetings.	Tom Malleson	14	2011	$1.40 Add
From Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford, 2013 From: The Court and the Charter View Emond Montgomery	The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously held that provisions of the Criminal Code prohibiting bawdy-houses, living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public for the purposes of …	Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman	11	2017	$1.10 Add
From Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford, 2013 From: The Court and the Constitution View Emond Montgomery	The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously held that provisions of the Criminal Code prohibiting bawdy-houses, living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public for the purposes of …	Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman	9	2017	$0.90 Add
From Canada (Attorney General) v. Hislop, 2007 From: The Court and the Charter View Emond Montgomery	The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that after federal legislation recognized same-sex conjugal relationships, a same-sex spouse of a deceased Canada Pension Plan contributor was entitled to a …	Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman	9	2017	$0.90 Add
From Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society, 2011 From: The Court and the Charter View Emond Montgomery	The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously held that the Insite safe injection facility in Vancouver is subject to the valid criminal scheme of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, but ordered …	Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman	9	2017	$0.90 Add