Public Policy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Scandinavian Common Sense Policies to Tackle Social Inequalities in Health Baraka Books	When some claim austerity is the only answer to today’s economic woes, a close look at the best practices in Scandinavia and Finland gives pause for thought. Cited as models for their …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	192	2015	View
NEW! Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme James Lorimer and Company	"Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can …	Alexandra Flynn; Mariana Valverde	200	2020	View
Somebodies and Nobodies Overcoming the Abuse of Rank New Society Publishers	In the ongoing attempts to overcome racism and sexism in North America today, we are overlooking another kind of discrimination that is no less damaging and equally unjustifiable. It is a form of …	Robert W. Fuller	208	2004	View
Spin Doctors How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the Covid-19 Pandemic Fernwood Publishing	As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that …	Nora Loreto	417	2021	View
Stolen Motherhood Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Children bar	Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the “process” is vitiated from the get go, i.e., …	Maria De Koninck	194	2020	View
Sweethearts The Builders, the Mob and the Men James Lorimer and Company	Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. …	Catherine Wismer	272	2014	View
NEW! Take Back the Tray Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions ECW Press	Good food generally doesn’t arrive on a tray, but Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability to produce good, nourishing food, because she’s been making it …	Joshna Maharaj	258	2020	View
Tar Sands Showdown Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change James Lorimer and Company	Canada’s oil patch is booming. The Alberta tar sands have become the next big oil source for the United States, replacing Saudi Arabia. Within the next 15 years, Canada will be pumping four …	Tony Clarke	312	2008	View
Telling Tales Living the Effects of Public Policy Fernwood Publishing	This book documents how the political, economic and social policy changes of the last decade of the twentieth century helped and harmed different segments of Canadian society. The chapters are …	Kate Bezanson; Sheila Neysmith	232	2005	View
NEW! The Attack on Nova Scotia’s Schools The story behind 25 years of tumultuous change Formac Publishing	Nova Scotia’s public schools and their students have faced dramatic conflict and drastic change over the past 25 years. While critics charge that schools are failing kids, teachers have …	Grant Frost	180	2020	View
The Big Stall How big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada James Lorimer and Company	This book traces the origins of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan back to the energy sector itself — in particular Big Oil. It shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil …	Donald Gutstein	304	2018	View
The Care We Dream Of Liberatory & Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health Arsenal Pulp Press	What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the health system honoured and valued queer and trans people’s lives, …	Zena Sharman	352	2021	View
NEW! The Fire and the Ashes Rekindling Democratic Socialism Between The Lines	In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen …	Andrew Jackson	180	2021	View
The Happiness Policy Handbook How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government New Society Publishers	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 …	Jean Crowder; Laura Musikanski; Rhonda Phillips	226	2019	View
NEW! The Killer’s Henchman Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster bar	Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announces the Covid-19 pandemic will end “when the world …	Stephen Gowans	280	2022	View
The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster Public Betrayal, Justice Denied James Lorimer and Company	This book explores the circumstances leading up to the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, describes the events themselves, and recounts the aftermath including the outcome of criminal trials …	Bruce Campbell	216	2018	View