Public Policy

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Prologue

Prologue

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

“Just as we can pollute the natural environment, we can pollute public conversations.” While the experts disagree about why this is happening, they concur when it comes to the damage … 6 $0.60 Add
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Promoting a Common Global Ethic

Promoting a Common Global Ethic

From: Peacemakers

Examines the relationship between religion and secular sources to promote a common global peace. They must work together and they are not ideologies of oposition. 19 $1.90 Add
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Protect and extract
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Protect and extract

The Trudeau government’s conflicted legacy on nature and conservation

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter addresses the Trudeau government’s legacy on conservation, environmental protection and safeguarding of endangered species and habitats. 13 $1.30 Add
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Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial Interests

Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial Interests

From: Medicare

Analyzes the Canadian Health Care System and to what extent it falls under the domain of trade treaties despite the assurance that it is beyond trade treaties reach 10 $1.00 Add
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(Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City Planning
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(Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City Planning

Sidewalk Labs’ Fraught Toronto Foray

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 2 explores the factors that must be present for a smart cities project to be responsible and effective and then asses whether the Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto met any of these criteria. 16 $1.60 Add
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Public Health in the Post-Covid Era
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Public Health in the Post-Covid Era

From: Messy Cities

Dr. Andrew Boozary writes about how the pandemic illustrated that public health and equity in Canada do not meet the standards many Canadians expect. 4 $0.40 Add
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Public Opinion About Surveillance in Post 9/11 Alberta

Public Opinion About Surveillance in Post 9/11 Alberta

Trading Privacy for Security?

From: Anti-Terrorism

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Public Policy and the Social Determinants of Health

Public Policy and the Social Determinants of Health

From: About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition

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Public Policy and the Social Determinants of Health
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Public Policy and the Social Determinants of Health

From: About Canada: Health and Illness

Chapter Six dissects the relationship between public policy and the social determinants of health in Canada, highlighting the country’s poor performance in addressing health inequities and … 53 $5.30 Add
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Public-Private Partnerships

Public-Private Partnerships

What Counts as Evidence of Claimed Value?

From: Divided

This chapter challenges a Saskatchewan government minister’s claims that those who question the value of the use of P3s are blinded by ideology and that available value-for-money reports … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Pulling the levers of power

Pulling the levers of power

From Lougheed to Klein

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the transition from Peter Lougheed’s government and Ralph Klein’s arrival as premier with focus paid to the political and economic … 7 $0.70 Add
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The Scope and Focus of Cumulative Effects and Regional Assessment
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The Scope and Focus of Cumulative Effects and Regional Assessment

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter examines the provisions for cumulative effects and regional assessment under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA) in light of established standards and suggests actions needed … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Pushing the bar higher

Pushing the bar higher

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the relationship between the oil industry and Alberta’s conservative leadership including the strain on the relationship by recent … 12 $1.20 Add
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Introducing the Impact Assessment Act’s Sustainability-Based Agenda
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Introducing the Impact Assessment Act’s Sustainability-Based Agenda

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter draw on the available literature and lessons from experience to address four areas: the basics of what “contribution to sustainability” now means and entails and what … 23 $2.30 Add
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Quebec Nationalism and Globalism

Quebec Nationalism and Globalism

From: Our Lives: Canada after 1945

Since 1980. Traces the ups and downs of Quebec Nationalism from the defeat of the 1980 referendum to the near victory of the 1995 referendum and the aftermath of this second referendum 35 $3.50 Add
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Race to the bottom

Race to the bottom

Inequality and poverty

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

The fourth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers the equity and poverty aspects of public transit versus the automobile, asserting that communities that are serious about … 18 $1.80 Add