2012

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
“Too Asian”? Racism and Post-Secondary Education Between The Lines	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 Fernwood Publishing	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 Society Institutions, Policy, Principles Irwin Law Inc.	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! James Lorimer and Company	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 Crisis Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada Fernwood Publishing	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 Studies Past, Present, Praxis Fernwood Publishing	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 Canada Farm Workers and the Fraser Case Irwin Law Inc.	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 Arithmetic Inside the Case Against Polygamy Irwin Law Inc.	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.ca Making Sense of Canadian Media in the Digital Age James Lorimer and Company	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 Workers Migration, Capitalism, and Class Fernwood Publishing	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 Fernwood Publishing	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 Justice Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Irwin Law Inc.	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 & Sexuality Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists Fernwood Publishing	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 Work Class, Power, and Change Fernwood Publishing	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 Irwin Law Inc.	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 Irwin Law Inc.	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