2015
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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A People’s Senate For CanadaNot a Pipe Dream! |
A People’s Senate for Canada combines grassroots experience, thorough research and critical commentary to create a people’s resource for positive change. This book offers a rationale, … | Helen Forsey | 143 | 2015 | View |
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, 2/e |
This book examines the legal framework that governs bankruptcy and insolvency law in Canada. It is organized in a way that illuminates the structure of insolvency law, its aims and objectives, … | Roderick J. Wood | 737 | 2015 | View |
Building a Better World Third EditionAn Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada |
This third edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada’s labour movement. The book includes an analysis of why workers form unions; assesses … | Errol Black; Jim Silver; Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross | 232 | 2015 | View |
Canada after HarperHis ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want |
Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has … | Ed Finn | 400 | 2015 | View |
Canadian Perspectives on Animals and the Law |
Canadian Perspectives on Animals and the Law provides an important new contribution to the debate on the legal status and treatment of animals in Canada. Twelve chapters by leading academics and … | Katie Sykes; Peter Sankoff; Vaughan Black | 377 | 2015 | View |
Disarming ConflictWhy Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield |
Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that … | Ernie Regehr | 232 | 2015 | View |
Early InterventionHow Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save money |
Governments and social agencies tackle the toughest social problems their citizens face — poverty, homelessness, mental and physical illness, violence, abuse, and more. Yet these problems … | James Hughes | 232 | 2015 | View |
Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
Description of the writings included in Part I: Understanding Canada. | Amanda Bittner; Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 563 | 2015 | View |
Ethics and Criminal Law, 2/e |
Ethics and Criminal Law is a comprehensive survey of the ethical issues facing criminal lawyers. Topics covered include: defending a client known to be guilty; choosing and refusing clients; … | David Layton; Michel Proulx | 753 | 2015 | View |
False SecurityThe Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism |
On 20 October 2014, a terrorist drove his car into two members of the Canadian Armed Forces, killing Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent. Two days later, another terrorist murdered Corporal Nathan … | Craig Forcese; Kent Roach | 633 | 2015 | View |
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: SummaryHonouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future |
This is the Final Report of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these … | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada | 544 | 2015 | View |
Fixing FashionRemaking the Way We Make, Market, and Buy Our Clothes |
With sales of more than US $500 billion a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the … | Michael Lavergne | 242 | 2015 | View |
How We Changed TorontoThe inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980 |
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada’s largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, … | John Sewell | 349 | 2015 | View |
Immigration Law, 2/e |
Canadian immigration and citizenship law has been subject to frequent and seemingly frenzied revision and reformulation by the government of the day as it attempts to identify the country’s … | Donald Galloway; Jamie Chai Yun Liew | 769 | 2015 | View |
In Defiance |
On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: “What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will … | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 186 | 2015 | View |
Indigenous NationhoodEmpowering Grassroots Citizens |
Indigenous Nationhood is a selection of blog posts by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Palmater offers critical legal and political commentary and analysis on … | Pamela Palmater | 266 | 2015 | View |