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Immigration Dialectic
Imagining Community, Economy, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Immigration is an integral part of national identity in settler societies such as Canada. But in countries where identity is defined more in ethnic terms, such as Germany, the presence of immigrants has only recently begun to be acknowledged. Taking these two countries as case studies, Immigration...
North America in Question
Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States,...
Journalism in Crisis
Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Journalism in Crisis addresses the concerns of scholars, activists, and journalists committed to Canadian journalism as a democratic institution and as a set of democratic practices. The authors look within Canada and abroad for solutions for balancing the Canadian media ecology.
Public policies...
Timothy Warren Anglin, 1822-96
Irish Catholic Canadian
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
Born in Ireland in 1822, Timothy Warren emigrated to New Brunswick in 1849 and quickly became involved in the life and politics of the city of Saint John and the colony. As founder and editor of the newspaper the Freeman, he came lay spokesman for the large, mainly lower-class Irish Catholic population...
Flaming Souls
Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
While there has been increased attention to issues of sexuality in the Caribbean over the past decade, there continue to be very few in-depth ethnographic studies of sexual minorities in this region. A timely addition to the literature, Flaming Souls explores public discourses focusing on homosexuality...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Cultural tourism is frequently marketed as an economic panacea for communities whose traditional ways of life have been compromised by the dominant societies by which they have been colonized. Indigenous communities in particular are responding to these opportunities in innovative ways that set them...
Toronto Sprawls
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2007
With a landmass of approximately 7000 square kilometres and a population of roughly five million, the Greater Toronto Area is Canada's largest metropolitan centre. How did a small nineteenth-century colonial capital become this sprawling urban giant, and how did government policies shape the contours...
Shape of the Suburbs
Understanding Toronto's Sprawl
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2009
It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between...
Practising Social Work Research
Case Studies for Learning, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development. Adopting strategies similar to those used in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice, and in so doing promotes...
Stickhandling through the Margins
First Nations Hockey in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Some of hockey’s fiercest and most passionate players and fans can be found among Canada's First Nations populations, including NHL greats Jordin Tootoo, Jonathan Cheechoo, and Gino Odjick. At first glance the importance of hockey to the country's Aboriginal peoples may seem to indicate assimilation...
by Harry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The echoes of Laurier's remarks about Canada and the twentieth century are taking a long time to fade away. It is one of the purposes of Professor Johnson's Alan B. Plaunt Lectures (given at Carleton University in 1962) to silence them, for they can prove dangerous and misleading—like a siren song—in...
1 Way 2 C The World
Writings 1984-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
Marilyn Waring is a truly absorbing figure known as a distinguished public intellectual, a leading feminist thinker, environmentalist, social justice activist, and for her early political career after election to New Zealand's parliament at age twenty-three. Assembling some of her most thought-provoking...
Women's Health in Canada
Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women's health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women's...
Empowering Children
Children's Rights Education as a Pathway to Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2007
Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education. To date, 192 states are signatories to or have in some form ratified the accord. Children...