Social Policy & Services
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() A Better Social Safety Net for CanadaFrom: Early Intervention |
The twin purposes of this final chapter are to sum up the early intervention approach, including how its different parts might fit together, and to offer some ideas on how such an approach might … | James Hughes | 25 | 2015 | $2.50 Add |
From ![]() A Breakthrough in the B.C. Courts — 2012From: The Right to Die |
By 2011 the public interest in a change in the law on assisted suicide again started to gain momentum. Parole Board slights to Robert Latimer continued to gain public attention. The experience of … | Gary Bauslaugh | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Brief History of Basic Income in Canada |
In this chapter, various basic income schemes in Canada are detailed, from William Aberhart’s Social Credit Party to the famous "Mincome" project in Dauphin, Manitoba. The chapter … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 35 | 2021 | $3.50 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Good Idea Goes Viral |
This chapter highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on low-wage "essential" workers, racialized populations, and women; the pandemic revealed that many Canadians suffer from … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
From ![]() A New Generation’s Expanding MindsFrom: Peacemakers |
Looks at how we need to educate children about peace focusing on globalization and education endeavors. | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add | |
From ![]() NEW! A Provocation to Freedom |
In the concluding chapter, the authors reconsider what counts as work, with an emphasis on the importance of care work. | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() A “Square Deal” DelayedFrom: Equal as Citizens |
Dominion-Provincial Conference on Reconstruction, August 6, 1945, Prime Minister and Canada’s Premiers meet to discuss the reconstruction of Canada, no agreements but paved the way for the … | Richard Starr | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A User’s Guide toThe Case for Basic Income |
A glossary of important individuals and concepts | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() Addressing AutismFrom: Early Intervention |
This chapter describes the disability known as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and details what researchers and parents say can be done about it. It also tells the story of how the policy-makers … | James Hughes | 28 | 2015 | $2.80 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Appendices |
Appendices include the Life Cycle of a Bureaucrat and a glossary of terms | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Basic Income Comes to Ontario – But Briefly |
This chapter covers the short-lived basic income project in Ontario, from it’s inception to its cancellation by the newly-elected Ford government. | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Best-Laid Plans |
Chapter 4 explores how plans are made, and unmade in government. It explores how plans are developed and approved and how success is measured, as well as the myriad pitfalls that can arise along … | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 34 | 2020 | $3.40 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Business as usual?Immigration policy in a tumultuous time From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s immigration policy. | Christina Gabriel | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() Business Control in a Working Class TownFrom: Their Town |
Examines how local government is structured and explains how business interests have managed to capture and hold political power in what is basically a working class town. | Bill Freeman | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
![]() 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 |
From ![]() Canada (Attorney General) v. Hislop, 2007 |
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 |