2012
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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“Too Asian”?Racism and Post-Secondary Education |
The now notorious Maclean’s article “Too Asian?” from the magazine’s 2010 campus issue has sparked a national furor about race in Canadian higher education. Since the … | Davina Bhandar; Jeet Heer; Michael C.K. Ma; RJ Gilmour | 224 | 2012 | View |
About Canada: Disability Rights |
Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and … | Deborah Stienstra | 134 | 2012 | View |
Balancing Competing Human Rights Claims in a Diverse SocietyInstitutions, Policy, Principles |
Published in Cooperation with the Ontario Human Rights Commission As societies around the world embrace diversity, certain challenges and tensions have become visible that were not fully … | Lesley Jacobs; Lorne Foster; Shaheen Azmi | 499 | 2012 | View |
Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes…Like We Do! |
Bill Gates and other wealthy individuals around the world do pay taxes–but usually at rates far below what most taxpayers pay. As Warren Buffet says, his secretary pays a higher tax rate … | Brigitte Alepin | 184 | 2012 | View |
Boom, Bust and CrisisLabour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada |
Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes ecoterrorism as a social construction. He examines how corporations that profit from animal … | John Peters | 199 | 2012 | View |
Canadian StudiesPast, Present, Praxis |
Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis provides an overview of the development and evolution of Canadian Studies as a field of research and teaching, from the landmark Symons Report in 1975 to … | Christl Verduyn; Jane Koustas | 345 | 2012 | View |
Constitutional Labour Rights in CanadaFarm Workers and the Fraser Case |
On 29 April 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada released its much-anticipated decision in Attorney General of Ontario v Fraser, which dealt with the scope of constitutional protection of collective … | Eric Tucker; Fay Faraday; Judy Fudge | 333 | 2012 | View |
Cruel ArithmeticInside the Case Against Polygamy |
For thirty years, lawyers, pundits, professors, and politicians had said that section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada—the criminal prohibition of polygamy—was unconstitutional, a … | Craig Jones | 402 | 2012 | View |
Cultural Industries.caMaking Sense of Canadian Media in the Digital Age |
Canada’s creative industries encompass book, periodical, and newspaper publishing; radio and television broadcasting; the music industry; video game production; filmmaking and video … | Ira Wagman; Peter Urquhart | 248 | 2012 | View |
Essential Work Disposable WorkersMigration, Capitalism, and Class |
Across the world we are witnessing daily the lethal effects of a rapid and scary hardening of borders, ignited and justified by manufactured fear and scarcity. In such conditions, highly … | Mostafa Henaway | 230 | 2012 | View |
Experiencing Difference |
Difference is a fundamental aspect of our human existence. This anthology emerges from the editor’s attempts to navigate the complex, variable and unpredictable materiality of difference. … | Carl E. James | 333 | 2012 | View |
Fundamental JusticeSection 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides that “[e]veryone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except … | Hamish Stewart | 361 | 2012 | View |
Gender & SexualityCanadian History Through the Stories of Activists |
The freedoms and liberties that every community, workplace and individual in Canada enjoys are due to the many struggles and social movements in our country’s history. Yet the stories, … | Scott Neigh | 217 | 2012 | View |
How Societies WorkClass, Power, and Change |
In 2011, protesters around the world – including Canada – called for changes to the societies in which they live. Many observers were asking: “What do they want?” Some … | Joanne Naiman | 367 | 2012 | View |
Income Tax Law, 2/e |
The long-awaited second edition of Income Tax Law is a comprehensive, up-to-date treatise on income tax law in Canada. The book introduces students and practitioners to income tax law in its … | Vern Krishna | 795 | 2012 | View |
Law of Contracts, 2/e |
The Law of Contracts, second edition, is a thorough revision of this authoritative text in Irwin Law’s Essentials of Canadian Law series. It includes discussion of recent jurisprudential … | John McCamus | 1217 | 2012 | View |