Cultural Policy

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Accounting for Culture

Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship

 Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved … ; ; 286 View

Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life

 Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign … 256 View

I’m Right and You’re an Idiot

The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up

 The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda and polarization stifles … 275 View

Inner City Renovation

How a Social Enterprise Changes Lives and Communities

 Inner City Renovation (ICR) is a much-heralded social enterprise in Winnipeg’s North End which has become an example of the potential for social enterprises to support people living on … 153 View

Political Correctness

The Munk Debates

 The twenty-second Munk Debate pits acclaimed journalist, professor, and ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg against renowned actor and writer … ; ; ; ; 147 View

The Happiness Policy Handbook

How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government

 Thomas Jefferson said that “the purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness.” Yet only now, 270 years later, is the happiness of citizens … ; ; 226 View

The Tangled Garden

A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age

 The emergence of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (the FAANGs) has created an unprecedented challenge to Canada’s news, television and film businesses. In this book Richard … 224 View
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Introduction

From: The Tangled Garden

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 An introduction to the book’s scope and sequence, laying out why Canada’s major media (television networks, newspapers, film industry are suddenly at risk as a result of the advent of … 11 $1.10 Add
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Introduction

From: The Happiness Policy Handbook

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 The Origins of the Happiness Policy Handbook – A Roadmap to the Handbook ; ; 8 $0.80 Add
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Michael Eric Dyson In Conversation With Rudyard Griffiths

From: Political Correctness

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 This reading consists of an interview between journalist Rudyard Griffiths and Michael Eric Dyson prior to the Munk Debate on the Political Correctness. The topic of the debate is the role and … ; 9 $1.08 Add
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Part 1 The Social Enterprise

Set Up and Management

From: Inner City Renovation

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Preface

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

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 Author Garry Neil introduces his argument, explaining why Canadian culture is important and highlighting his background and experience on this subject. 5 $0.50 Add
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Prologue

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

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 “Just as we can pollute the natural environment, we can pollute public conversations.” While the experts disagree about why this is happening, they concur when it comes to the damage … 6 $0.60 Add
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A Brief History of the Happiness Movement

From: The Happiness Policy Handbook

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 An Evolution of Sustainable Development: The Happiness Movement – A Few Words about Terminology ; ; 10 $1.00 Add
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From Indicators to Governance to the Mainstream

Tools for Cultural Policy and Citizenship

From: Accounting for Culture

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 Discusses the need to move along and up the "knowledge value chain" from data (statistics), to information (indicators), to knowledge (benchmarks), to wisdom (policy). 12 $1.44 Add