Public Policy

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Criminalizing Welfare Recipients of Color

Criminalizing Welfare Recipients of Color

From: Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty

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Crisis in Canada's Policing

Crisis in Canada’s Policing

Why 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 … 224 View
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Critical Science and Social Responsibility

Critical Science and Social Responsibility

From: Techno-Fix

Critical Science and Social Responsibility outlines ways to increase the awareness of scientists and engineers regarding their social responsibilities as well as ways to transform current science … ; 31 $3.10 Add
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Critical Views on the Nordic Countries' Policies

Critical Views on the Nordic Countries’ Policies

From: Scandinavian Common Sense

This chapter outlines some critical perspectives on the Nordic model. In public health, as in economics, the complex interaction of many factors must be taken into account; therefore it is useful … ; ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Crossing the carbon divide

Crossing the carbon divide

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft provides an overview of the arguments presented in previous chapters outling the oil industry’s hold on democratic institutions and concludes … 14 $1.40 Add
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Crowding out

Crowding out

Congestion and safety

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

The fifth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? evaluates the three revolutions using the criteria of congestion and safety. The author demonstrates that cars of any kind will not solve … 21 $2.10 Add
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Crude Awakening

Crude Awakening

From: Tar Sands Showdown

This chapter covers the early development of the tar sands with the following subsections: (a) black gold: the pioneers who developed the technology to extract oil from the tar sands; (b) land … 38 $3.80 Add
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Cultural Indicators and Benchmarks in Community Indicator Projects

Cultural Indicators and Benchmarks in Community Indicator Projects

From: Accounting for Culture

The presence of cultural indicators in community indicator projects has evolved from isolated scenes characterized by fledgling, pioneering attempts to that of an emerging field and more … 16 $1.92 Add
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Cultural Participation

Cultural Participation

A Fuzzy Cultural Policy Paradigm

From: Accounting for Culture

Argues that "cultural participation" should be a basic building block of cultural citizenship, suggesting that the term is better thought of as a means but not an end of citizenship and … 23 $2.76 Add
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Cultural Sovereignty: The Challenging Gap
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Cultural Sovereignty: The Challenging Gap

From: Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World

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Culture Club
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Culture Club

The Workplace Culture of Government Bureaucracy

From: How Government Really Works

Chapter 2 explores government workplace culture, the chain of command and the lack of diversity inherent in many government departments. ; 31 $3.10 Add
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Cyber Cyber Everywhere

Cyber Cyber Everywhere

From: Unicorn in the Woods

In this chapter, Pitt explores the career of Steve Lund, the key driver behind CyberNB, an agency designed to leverage New Brunswick’s homegrown expertise. 15 $1.50 Add
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Daisy
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Daisy

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Four of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on Black communites. He highlights the testimony of … 12 $1.20 Add
Damming the Peace

Damming the Peace

The 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 … 272 View
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Data minecraft

Data minecraft

Surveillance and policing

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

Chapter seven of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers surveillance and policing of digital data associated with the new transportation revolution technologies. The author finds the new … 17 $1.70 Add
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David Brooks in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

David Brooks in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

May 28, 2020

From: The World After Covid

David Brooks and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and American political thinking. Topics include the lasting impacts of the pandemic on politics and specifically on attitudes toward … 9 $0.90 Add