Public Policy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts Tools with a Life of Their Own From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	In assessing and understanding technology and its effects on people and nature, it is at least as important to pay attention to the energy that drives our tools as to the tools themselves and the …	Richard Heinberg	17	2010	$1.70 Add
On This Patch of Grass City Parks on Occupied Land Fernwood Publishing	Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, …	Daisy Couture; Matt Hern; Sadie Courture; Selena Courture	167	2018	View
From NEW! One foot in, one foot out The Trudeau record on infrastructure and public transit From: The Trudeau Record View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the Trudeau government’s investment in infrastructure and analyzes its commitment to public spending to realize affordable and accessible public transit.	Nate Wallace	16	2024	$1.60 Add
NEW! Open Governments, Secret Canada Hiding Information Other Countries Share James Lorimer and Company	Matt Malone has travelled the world to see how other countries have made information accessible to their citizens. In country after country, he found that officials have learned to live with (and …	Matt Malone	280	2026	View
From NEW! Opening Night From: Seven Days in Halifax View Formac Publishing	In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Two of "Encounter on Urban Environment," focusing on the event’s first live televised town hall and the Nova Scotia …	Robert Ashe	13	2025	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Opium Eater The New Confessions From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	After years of being clawed by stiffness and pain the author describes clawing back the life pain took from her. She describes the effects of the opiates she takes for pain, the pain relief, and …	Carlyn Zwarenstein	64	2021	$6.40 Add
From Optimum Power Sustaining Our Power Over Time From: Power View New Society Publishers	This chapter makes the case that we humans are capable of controlling our thirst for power, and we have a long history of doing so. Moreover, that capacity is rooted in similar behavior expressed …	Richard Heinberg	51	2021	$5.10 Add
From NEW! Ordeal From: Seven Days in Halifax View Formac Publishing	In this chapter, Ashe describes the live TV evening panel of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," on community policy development in Halifax.Panelists and …	Robert Ashe	4	2025	$0.40 Add
From Organizing Against the Odds Anti-Unionism in Niagara's Casino Gaming Sector From: Labour Under Attack View Fernwood Publishing		Larry Savage; Nick Ruhloff-Queiruga	15	2018	$1.50 Add
From NEW! Organizing During Forced Eviction in Khori Gaon From: Dispatches from the Threshold View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Chatterjee examines how residents of Khori Gaon, a settlement of nearly 100,000 people on the Delhi–Faridabad border, organized after the Supreme Court ordered its …	Ishita Chatterjee	12	2025	$1.20 Add
From Origins From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	To understand how we find ourselves in such a situation of ecological precarity requires delving into the past. But our intents are fraught from the start. Any attempt to retell human history is …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	8	2018	$0.80 Add
From Origins of Lawrence Heights From: Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Urban Revitalization in Toronto's Lawrence Heights View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Careless traces the origins of Lawrence Heights, examining the settler colonial dispossession of Mississauga land and post-war Canadian housing policies.	John Careless	31	2024	$3.10 Add
From Other Voices in a Neo-Conservative Age From: Our Lives: Canada after 1945 View James Lorimer and Company	Since 1980. Looks at the successes and setbacks experienced by the groups that composed the majority of members of society but who were increasingly called "special interest groups" by …	Alvin Finkel	33	2012	$3.30 Add
Our Lives: Canada after 1945 Second Edition	This book offers a short, comprehensive history of post-war Canada. All the major events and developments in Canadian history are discussed: the evolution of the welfare state; the growth of …		488		View
From Out of Sync With a “Shrinking State”? Making Sense of the Employment Equity Act (1995) From: Restructuring and Resistance View Fernwood Publishing		A. Paul Williams; Janet M. Lunn	18	2000	$1.80 Add
From Outcome and Learnings From: Inner City Renovation View Fernwood Publishing		Marty Donkervoort	11	2013	$1.10 Add