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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Get With the Program From: How Government Really Works View Collection: Behind the Curtain: Day-to-day Government in Canada Formac Publishing	Chapter 6 explores the context and scope of government programs and services, challenges bureaucrats face when delivering those programs and services and drivers that influence costs and demands …	Angela Poirier; Jane Allt	19	2020	$1.90 Add
From Gillian Bennett, Dead at Noon — 2014 From: The Right to Die View James Lorimer and Company	At noon on August 18, 2014, eighty-three-year-old Gillian Bennett, of Bowen Island in British Columbia, took her own life. In the next several days her story was carried in the news media across …	Gary Bauslaugh	20	2016	$2.00 Add
From Gosselin v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2002 From: The Court and the Charter View Emond Montgomery	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 …	Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman	15	2017	$1.50 Add
From Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship: Toward a New Nexus of Social Contracts From: The New Geo-Governance View University of Ottawa Press	Australian and Canadian citizenships are emergent idiosyncratic realities. These complex institutions are the result of the on-going interaction between values and environment. The sort of social …	Gilles Paquet	24	2005	$2.16 Add
From NEW! Hamilton I The Freedom to Live with Some Dignity From: The Case for Basic Income View Between The Lines	This chapters explores Ontario’s basic income project in Hamilton, focusing on how basic income can improve public health.	Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From NEW! Hamilton II Thinking Further Down the Road From: The Case for Basic Income View Between The Lines	In this chapter, the authors focus on Jodi Dean, a single mother in Hamilton who was a basic income recipient.	Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift	29	2021	$2.90 Add
From NEW! Hamilton III New Choices From: The Case for Basic Income View Between The Lines	This chapter profiles another resident of Hamilton who participated in the basic income pilot. Unlike other participants, James Collura was not disabled, not on social assistance, and did not …	Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift	29	2021	$2.90 Add
From Hamilton Labour The Failure of an Opposition Group From: Their Town View James Lorimer and Company	A history of the attempts by labour, at times almost successful, to wrest power from the dominant business interests, and an analysis of the reasons for labour’s failure to win political …	Bill Freeman	23	2016	$2.30 Add
From Healthier Health Care From: Early Intervention View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter is about reducing the pressure on and cost of the existing system through the scaling of evidence-based early intervention measures. The existing health system is largely a …	James Hughes	32	2015	$3.20 Add
From Homes for Homeless People From: Early Intervention View James Lorimer and Company	Examines social policy and public health in relation to homelessness	James Hughes	29	2015	$2.90 Add
From NEW! House of Cards From: How Government Really Works View Formac Publishing	Chapter 1 explores the difference between bureaucrats and elected officials, where they fit into the hierarchy of government, and the powers they have when interacting with politicians.	Angela Poirier; Jane Allt	17	2020	$1.70 Add
NEW! How Government Really Works A Field Guide to Bureaucracies in Canada	This book exposes the inherent complexities and challenges found in government environments and offers insights to help bureaucrats, and those working alongside bureaucrats, better understand the …		240		View
From Income Inequality in Canada: What Can Be Done From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition View Emond Montgomery	2013 report by Armine Yalnizyan to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance regarding what the federal government could do to offset the growth of income inequality.	Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell	5	2015	$0.50 Add
From Institutional Evolution in the Information Age From: The New Geo-Governance View University of Ottawa Press	This chapter examines the ways in which the institutional order has been reconfigured, and the likely consequences of this mutation.	Gilles Paquet	21	2005	$1.89 Add
From NEW! Interregnum and the Birth of Neoliberalism From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter outlines the origins of neoliberalism and the key ideas of this philosophy as well as tracing its resurgence beginning in the 1980s after decades of disfavour.	Alex Himelfarb	36	2024	$3.60 Add
From Introduction Hamilton Politics and the Ideology of Business From: Their Town View James Lorimer and Company	An introduction to the core ideas behind this book.	Bill Freeman; Marsha Aileen Hewitt	5	2016	$0.50 Add