Public Policy

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Dissolving, Dividing, Distressing

Examining Cutbacks to Programs Responding to Sexual Violation

From: Care and Consequences

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Fortress Europe

From: Border and Rule

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This chapter explores how a process of "victim-blaming" places responsibility on migrants, who are often forced from their homes. It also examines the legal and political situation in … 23 $2.30 Add
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From Farm to Table

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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This chapter demonstrates the growing size and power of the food industry in the global economy across its supply chains. Capital-intensive farming, food-processing and major food retailers and … 17 $1.70 Add
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From Iron Curtain to Paper Wall: The Influence of Border Regimes on Local and Regional Economies— The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Bazaars in the Lodz Region

From: Borderlands

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In this chapter we trace the effects of the “Schengenization” of the eastern border of Poland on the functioning of the larger bazaars in the Lodz region, specifically those in Tuszyn … 32 $2.56 Add
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From the Quiet Revolution to the First Sovereignty Referendum

From: Our Lives: Canada after 1945

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1963-1980. Looks at the dramatic social change in francophone Quebec and the Quiet Revolution as a society-wide movement that imbraced Trade Unions, the women’s movement, and even the … 33 $3.30 Add
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Get With the Program

From: How Government Really Works

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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 … ; 19 $1.90 Add
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Global Cultural Diversity Movement and the UNESCO Convention

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

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Describes the pushback to trade agreement impacts on culture internationally, and describes the creation of the UNESCO Convention (1970) and assesses the impact it has had on Canadian and global … 19 $1.90 Add
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Greening the Tax System

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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Chapter 6 deals specifically with environmental taxation. If major fiscal reforms are to be undertaken to deal with the crisis, this could be a strategic moment to implement a green tax shift. … 28 $2.80 Add
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Growth Versus Social Responsibility

Union Pension Funds and P3s in Canada

From: Ideology over Economics

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The Movement Toward Public–Private Partnerships (P3s) in Canada The Infrastructure Gap in Canada Arguments for the P3 Route The Arguments for P3s Considered Private-Sector Attraction to … 24 $2.40 Add
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Harper and Harrison

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

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Discusses the deregulating agenda of the Harper majority government. How Government abandoned the precautionary principle in favour of a business friendly approach to regulation. Discussses the … 15 $1.50 Add
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Healthy Children First

From: Medicare

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Looks at the cycle we have fallen into regarding treating illness rather than preventing it and what we must do to break free from this cycle specifically focusing on the needs of the young 8 $0.80 Add
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Here Come the Americans

From: Unicorn in the Woods

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In this chapter, Pitts describes Q1 Labs’ success in finding funding, and how they confronted concerns about their Canadian and Maritime location. 9 $0.90 Add
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How the Media Turned Nova Scotia Against Its Teachers (2010-2014)

From: The Attack on Nova Scotia's Schools

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Human Nature or Human Ignorance?

From: The Memory We Could Be

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The story of climate change is one of the rise to dominance of a particular human relationship with nature, defined by callousness. Today we are blinded by that relationship, locked in its logic … 37 $3.70 Add
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Inequality of Wealth

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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The inequality of wealth in Canada is far greater than the inequality of incomes — Canada’s top 40 families own more than the bottom 40% (6,186,000 households) do. For middle class … 23 $2.30 Add