Public Policy
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From  Seeking Social Licence for the Site C DamA Planner’s Perspective from the Peace River Waterfront From: Damming the Peace |
A Peace River Valley planner on the concept of social license, why it’s important for major projects, and how, in the case of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River … | Reg Whiten | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Seeking Strategic Pathways to Energy SufficiencyFrom: Resilience Imperative |
Our energy diet has put us between a rock and a hot place. On one hand, we are hooked on oil and demand is increasing. On the other hand, if we do not radically reduce our fossil-fuel use, we … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 19 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Self-Care |
In Chapter 8 Kaufman concludes the book by reflecting on the importance of maintaining your own mental health and happiness in the face of the climate crisis. The chapter discusses topics such as … | Cynthia Kaufman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Self-helpFrom: Equal as Citizens |
1990s. Looks at the emergence of a counter to the Welfare State built on two tennents self-help through entrepreneurship and economic efficiency through intergovernmental cooperation using the … | Richard Starr | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Selling Radian6From: Unicorn in the Woods |
In this chapter, Pitts outlines the sale of Radian6 to Salesforce, a fast-growing company based on the West Coast. This led to a financial windfall for all involved. | Gordon Pitts | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From  SeperationFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
No matter where we may be, we are inseparable from nature. We live in nature, we live with nature, we rely on nature, and we are part of nature. Yet our language hides this. When we use words … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  September 2020: Back to SchoolFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter examines Covid-19 in relation to schools. Loreto discusses how the transitions from in person and online classes impacted Covid outbreaks, as well as how public policy and the media … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Settler Colonialism and Intimate TerrorismFrom: Insurgent Love |
In this chapter, Whynacht explores the link between systems of colonialism and domestic homicide. She proceeds to argue that the first formations of coercive control relations in the Americas … | Ardath Whynacht | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Shame and silence in health careFrom: Bent out of Shape |
Karen Messing | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add | |
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From  NEW! Ship of Theseus: The Power Wheelchair User and the CityFrom: Living Disability |
Angelo Muredda writes about his experience of using a power wheelchair in Toronto, including how it contributes to his mobility, its challenges, and its relationship to his own body. | Emily Macrae | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Shopping Without BordersFrom: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do! |
Chapter 4 delves into electronic commerce. Traditional taxation principles that were devised more than half a century ago were based on a physical world, with tangible goods, and defined places … | Brigitte Alepin | 11 | 2012 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Show me the Money |
Chapter 7 explores the financial underpinnings of government, where the money comes from, how budgets are drafted and approved and current trends in the Government Financial Management. | Angela Poirier; Jane Allt | 21 | 2020 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Shut OutUncovering the Dynamics of Social Exclusion From: Telling Tales |
Kate Bezanson; Sheila Neysmith | 23 | 2005 | $2.30 Add | |
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From  Signed, Sealed and Delivered? The TPP and Canada’s Public Postal Service |
Daniel Sheppard and Louis Century, lawyers at Goldblatt Partners, provide a compelling case study that warns how corporate interests in the U.S. might take advantage of these novel provisions to … | Daniel Sheppard; Louis Century | 13 | 2016 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Smart Cities and the Origins of Utopian UrbanismThe Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States |
The Dream of the Smart City: Part 2 explores the origins of utopian urbanism. Topics discussed include history of urban planning, the history of ghetto’s, Bauhaus and the Garden City … | John Lorinc | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor GameThe Lure of Innovation in a Competitive World From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 1 explores what leads municipal governments to persue smart city projects, whether they are seen as a quick and easy fix to deeper underlying infrastructure and urban planning issues, and … | Mariana Valverde | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
