Social Policy & Services
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From  NEW! Disability at the Desk and BeyondFrom: Living Disability |
Anika Abdullah writes about disability and employment. She discusses how many workplaces and employers are not ready for disabled workers, the provincial rules in Ontario, the difficulty of … | Anika Abdullah | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
 Early InterventionHow Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save money |
Governments and social agencies tackle the toughest social problems their citizens face — poverty, homelessness, mental and physical illness, violence, abuse, and more. Yet these problems … | 232 | View | ||
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From  Ecologies of Governance as Social TechnologiesFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
It is most effective to partition the problem into compartments, and to put in place ecologies of governance making the highest and best use—in an eclectic way—of all the possible … | Gilles Paquet | 12 | 2005 | $1.08 Add |
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From  Education Policies |
Education has a predominant place in the Nordic countries, and it is free, of high quality, and accessible to all. This chapter examines the nature and tenets of education policies and the … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 17 | 2015 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Equality or Equal Per Capita?From: Equal as Citizens |
Early 2000s. The 50-50 suplus split of 1999, survey of Ontario’s political and economic landscape in an analysis of cash transfer from the federal government, counters this through an … | Richard Starr | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Escaping the BurrowFrom: The Age of Insecurity |
In this chapter, Taylor examines how commercial insurance moved from collective security to individual risk, examining Kafka’s early twentieth- century work in Prague, the industry’s … | Astra Taylor | 56 | 2023 | $5.60 Add |
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From Family and Work-Life Balancing Policies |
This chapter examines the family policies of the Nordic countries, which emphasize financial support measures, allocation of parental leave, and work-life balance. | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From Features of a Governance Regime for OceansFrom: The New Geo-Governance |
Canada’s marine dominion underpins numerous industries including commercial fishing, aquaculture, transport, shipbuilding, tourism, mining, and oil and gas extraction. Access to the oceans … | Gilles Paquet | 34 | 2005 | $3.06 Add |
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From NEW! Fighting for Food: How We Won Hundreds of Millions for Poor Disabled People with Paperwork and ProtestsFrom: Living Disability |
A. J. Withers writes about fighting the government of Ontario and the City of Toronto for disabled people to receive more money each month, as someone who has been organizing against poverty for … | A.J. Withers | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! First, Do Nothing |
Chapter 5 explores the role of the bureaucrat in the policy-making process. | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Fisherman’s SonFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Four of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," focusing on students. Discussions highlighted racist and classist … | Robert Ashe | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Forty Shades of MercyFrom: The Right to Die |
In all of the examples in this chapter we see deaths caused by acts of mercy, and we see mercy shown to those who caused the deaths. In none of these cases was the full force of the law applied … | Gary Bauslaugh | 28 | 2016 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Forward and On Basic Income by George Elliot Clark |
In the forward, Dr. Martin links basic income to human health, and notes this link is more obvious than ever because of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Dr. Danielle Martin; George Elliot Clarke | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Forward/Introduction |
In the Introduction, the authors outline their goal of demystifying the world of government bureaucracy and explaining the often misunderstood role of the government bureaucrat. | Jocelyne Bourgon | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! From the Inside and OutManaging a Minefield of Relationships |
Chapter 3 looks at how bureaucrats can build and maintain relationships with elected officials and their fellow civil servants. It also explores their relationships with individuals and groups … | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From Gender Equity Policies |
By definition, gender equity helps reduce social inequalities. Incontrovertibly women are enriched, both financially and as citizens, when they are included on an equal footing with men in all … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
