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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Impact Assessment for Projects on Federal Lands and Outside Canada The “Federal Projects” Process From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter explores the process set out in the Assessment Act (IAA) for the assessment of projects on federal lands and projects outside Canada; how this process differs from the rest of the …	Jamie Kneen	24	2021	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Strategies: Networking, Institutionalizing, Commodifying, and Brokering From: The Consulting Trap View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter Four, the authors identify four strategies that TPSFs (transnational professional service firms) have used to gain influence and entrench themselves in public policymaking and service …	Chris Hurl; Leah B. Werner	34	2024	$3.40 Add
From Striking for Status From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter describes why undocumented migrants’ struggles for status are fundamentally about workers’ rights. In certain moments, like 2006 and 2017 in the US and 2008 in France, marginalized …	Mostafa Henaway	10	2023	$1.00 Add
From Students Reaching Their Potential From: Freedom To Learn View New Society Publishers	I want my students to take as much responsibility for their own learning as I take for teaching. From the first day, I am developing all students as effective learners. No benefit can come from …	Art Willans; Cari Williams	13	2018	$1.30 Add
From Styles of Rationing Health Care: The United States vs. Canada From: Medicare View James Lorimer and Company	Looks at the erosion of the faith in US Health Care, Cost and Quality of US Health Care, a snapshot of Canada’s Health Care system, advantages and disadvantages of Singly-payer health care …	Uwe E. Reinhardt	20	2007	$2.00 Add
From Support Systems From: In The Business of Change View New Society Publishers	For those navigating the world of business for the first time, support systems — academic or other educational programs, mentorship, membership and networking organizations, workshops, …	Elisa Birnbaum	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From Surviving the Crisis The Classes of 1987-1998 From: Learning to Leave View Fernwood Publishing		Michael Corbett	46	2007	$4.60 Add
From Sustain This The Rise of Social Entrepreneurship From: In The Business of Change View New Society Publishers	Whether working on a single issue at a time or adopting a larger, far-reaching lens of advocacy, policy and systems change, these entrepreneurs are establishing ventures with a comprehensive …	Elisa Birnbaum	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Considering the Potential for Meaningful Public Participation Under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter examines the provisions for meaningful participation in the IAA and provides a more critical analysis of the limitations of public participation and discusses action needed to …	A. John Sinclair	20	2021	$2.00 Add
From Sustainable Development at the Local Level From: Scandinavian Common Sense View Baraka Books	This chapter tackles sustainable development at the local level and highlights some projects undertaken under municipal mandates. This study is limited to the Nordic capitals — Stockholm, …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	23	2015	$2.30 Add
Sweethearts The Builders, the Mob and the Men	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. …		272		View
From NEW! Swimming Upstream From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now View New Society Publishers	This chapter discusses the benefits of personal change, how personal decisions can have ripple effects on other people, and how activists need to meet people where they are in order to influence …	Sami Grover	16	2021	$1.60 Add
From Systematic Sexism Police and Women From: Crisis in Canada's Policing View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter addresses the tendency of police to dismiss instances of gender-based violence.	Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From Systemic Discrimination Police and Race From: Crisis in Canada's Policing View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, the author outline the "broken windows" theory of policing, and how this has had disproportionate impacts on racialized people.	Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell	45	2021	$4.50 Add
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
From Taking Action From: Intrinsic Hope View New Society Publishers	If we can accept that the global eco-social crisis is human caused, we have the possibility of taking effective action. Taking action is one of the best ways to nurture intrinsic hope. …	Kate Davies	17	2018	$1.70 Add