Public Policy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Disorderly People Law and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario Fernwood Publishing	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
From Dissolving, Dividing, Distressing Examining Cutbacks to Programs Responding to Sexual Violation From: Care and Consequences View Fernwood Publishing		Si Transken	27	2000	$2.97 Add
NEW! Divided We Fall How we can resist polarizing pressures and strengthen our identity as citizens	The divisions among Canadians have been growing in recent years. Despite the Elbows Up movement in response to American threats, even our national unity seems at risk. Rising inequality, regional …		230		View
From NEW! Dixie Road From: Messy Cities View Coach House Books	Fadi Masoud details how suburbs, like the ones on the edges of Toronto, are crucial entry points for immigrants, in spite of these spaces facing social and infrastructural challenges.	Dylan Reid	6	2025	$0.60 Add
Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk Between The Lines	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
From Do Canadian Universities Work? From: Campus Confidential View James Lorimer and Company	An analysis on the question do canadian universities work separated into the following areas: 35 Putting Bums On Seats Is the Number-One Priority 36 The Perils of Athletics 37 University …	Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates	24	2013	$2.40 Add
From Do-It-Yourself Power From: Charging Ahead View Baraka Books	This chapter examines self-generation of energy, looking at individuals and programs in Quebec that are taking different approaches to energy production and consumption, and how these approaches …	Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow	14	2019	$1.40 Add
Doctors in Denial Why 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 …		344		View
From Doctors, sales representatives, samples, gifts, trips and dinners From: Doctors in Denial View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses the various forms of interactions that pharmaceutical companies have with individual doctors in Canada, and how this impacts the health care they provide to their patients.	Joel Lexchin MD	32	2017	$3.20 Add
From Does the TPP Work for Workers? From: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada View James Lorimer and Company	Suggests that the TPP’s Labour Protection Standards are not what they claim to be and are not effectively enforceable as exemplified by opposition fron Labour Organizations.	Angella MacEwen; Laura Macdonald	15	2016	$1.50 Add
From Domestic Homicide and Abolition From: Insurgent Love View Fernwood Publishing	In the introductory chapter, the author defines key terms that are essential to the text, details the failures of the current carceral approach to family violence, and details how her personal …	Ardath Whynacht	24	2021	$2.40 Add
From Domicide in the Liveable City From: Resisting Eviction View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Crosby explores urban liveability and domicide, identifying liveability as an ideological discourse of urban improvement that is mobilized alongside gentrification efforts to …	Andrew Crosby	11	2023	$1.10 Add
From Dream Change From: Tar Sands Showdown View James Lorimer and Company	This final chapter discusses the need to start changing the dream of the good life based on accumulating wealth and power, including our model of industrialization, and developing strategies for …	Tony Clarke	40	2008	$4.00 Add
NEW! Dream States Smart 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, …		290		View
Dry Run Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis New Society Publishers	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
From Duped and How Summary: The Polluted Public Square From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	I found the attacks on scientists and the volume of propaganda used to cloud environmental issues puzzling. I found myself becoming angrier about the deception and lack of fair play than I was …	James Hoggan	12	2016	$1.20 Add