Public Policy
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Campus Confidential100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition) |
In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, … | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 256 | 2013 | View |
NEW! Canadarm and CollaborationHow Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds |
Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program … | Elizabeth Howell | 249 | 2020 | View |
Canadian Culture in a Globalized WorldThe 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 … | Garry Neil | 256 | 2019 | View |
Care and ConsequencesThe Impact of Health Care Reform |
Over the past decade health care in Canada has shifted from a cure-care model to a business model. Disguised behind talk of community, care closer to home, consumer choice, patient rights, … | Diana L. Gustafson | 325 | 2000 | View |
Charging AheadHydro-Québec and the Future of Electricity |
Hydro-Québec manages one of the largest power grids on the continent. It is among the most profitable, the least expensive and the greenest. With a stunning renewable energy rate of 99.8 … | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 320 | 2019 | View |
Counting Out The ScholarsThe Case Against Performance Indicators in Higher Education |
Canada’s universities have lost their autonomy. Under the guise of accountability, reformers from government and large corporations have undermined the original purposes of these … | Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau | 274 | 2002 | View |
Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing PovertyWelfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada |
The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients in recent years has led many poverty advocates to claim that “a war against … | Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan | 102 | 2007 | View |
Crisis in Canada’s PolicingWhy Change is So Hard, and How We Can Get Real Reform in our Police Forces |
In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at … | Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell | 224 | 2021 | View |
Damming the PeaceThe hidden costs of the Site C Dam |
Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s … | Wendy Holm | 272 | 2018 | View |
Degrees of FailureUniversity Education in Decline |
In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show … | Randle W. Nelsen | 152 | 2017 | View |
Disarming ConflictWhy Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield |
Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that … | Ernie Regehr | 232 | 2015 | View |
Disorderly PeopleLaw and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario |
The Ontario Safe Streets Act is the first modern provincial law to prohibit a wide range of begging and squeegee work in public space. This Act is representative of a much wider set of reforms … | Janet Mosher; Joe Hermer | 121 | 2002 | View |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk |
Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the “three revolutions” in automotive transportation, as well as the current … | James Wilt | 306 | 2020 | View |
Doctors in DenialWhy Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort |
Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of … | Joel Lexchin MD | 344 | 2017 | View |
NEW! Dream StatesSmart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias |
Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, … | John Lorinc | 290 | 2022 | View |
Dry RunPreventing the Next Urban Water Crisis |
In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for … | Jerry Yudelson | 312 | 2010 | View |