Public Policy

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Considering the Potential for Meaningful Public Participation Under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act
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Considering the Potential for Meaningful Public Participation Under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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 … 20 $2.00 Add
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Sustainable Development at the Local Level

Sustainable Development at the Local Level

From: Scandinavian Common Sense

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, … ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
Sweethearts

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
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Swimming Upstream
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Swimming Upstream

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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Systematic Sexism

Systematic Sexism

Police and Women

From: Crisis in Canada's Policing

This chapter addresses the tendency of police to dismiss instances of gender-based violence. ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Systemic Discrimination

Systemic Discrimination

Police and Race

From: Crisis in Canada's Policing

In this chapter, the author outline the "broken windows" theory of policing, and how this has had disproportionate impacts on racialized people. ; 45 $4.50 Add
Take Back the Tray
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Take Back the Tray

Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions

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 … 258 View
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Taking Action

Taking Action

From: Intrinsic Hope

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. … 17 $1.70 Add
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Taking Care of the Bottom Line

Taking Care of the Bottom Line

Shifting Paradigms in Hospital Management

From: Care and Consequences

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Taking on the titans
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Taking on the titans

Cultural policy in the Trudeau era

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter looks at the history of Canadian cultural policy and the assesses the Trudeau government’s record relating to the new challenges of digital platforms such as Amazon, Netflix … 13 $1.30 Add
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Taking Stock:

Taking Stock:

Comparable Services

From: Equal as Citizens

Analysis if the provinces were able to offer comparable levels of public service and examines how the Harper 2011 health funding and earlier ransacking of equalization left a giant disparity with … 19 $1.90 Add
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Taking Stock:

Taking Stock:

Taxes and Opportunities

From: Equal as Citizens

looks at comparable rates of taxation, income disparity, employment rates, regional development between the provinces concluding that Canada is not meeting the goal of equal citizenship 13 $1.30 Add
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Talking Solutions

Talking Solutions

From: Medicare

Looks at the Health Council of Canada’s 2007 report that synthesizes four years of public opinion polling (2002 to 2006) on the Canadian health system as it relates to reforming rather than … 7 $0.70 Add
Tar Sands Showdown

Tar Sands Showdown

Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change

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 … 312 View
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Tax Breaks for Multinationals

Tax Breaks for Multinationals

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

Chapter 2 of this book looks at the detaxation of multinational corporations. Showcases that advocates for this note that it does not adversely affect the country’s public finances, here … 19 $1.90 Add
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Taxes, Austerity, and What Trickles Down

Taxes, Austerity, and What Trickles Down

From: Canada after Harper

Alex Himelfarb concludes by relating how tax cuts and other austerity measures have led to a loss of public awareness of the need for adequate tax revenue to maintain essential services — … 15 $1.50 Add