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Cartographies of Violence
Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In 1942, the federal government expelled more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. From 1942 to 1949, they were dispossessed, sent to incarceration sites, and dispersed across Canada. Over 4,000 were deported to Japan. Cartographies of Violence analyses the effects...
Property
Mainstream and Critical Positions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
The legitimate role of the state in relation to property and the justification of property institutions of various kinds are matters of increasing concern in the modern world. Political and social theorists, jurists, economists, and historians have taken positions for and against the property institutions...
Governance in Northern Ontario
Economic Development and Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book analyzes economic development policy governance in northern Ontario over the past thirty years, with the goal of making practical policy recommendations for present and future government engagement with the region. It brings together scholars from several disciplines to address the policy...
Productivity and Prosperity
A Historical Sociology of Productivist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Despite Canada’s economic success over the past thirty years, the country’s ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other industrialized nations. Economic experts and pundits repeatedly call for means of improving productivity, arguing that it is the lynchpin to prosperity....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The Global Promise of Federalism honours the life and work of Richard Simeon, one of Canada’s foremost experts on federalism. It features a group of distinguished scholars of federalism from Canada and abroad who take up some of the fundamental questions at the heart of both Simeon’s work and...
Making a Difference in Urban Schools
Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
What can be done to improve the educational experiences of students who live in cities with increasingly high levels of diversity and inequality? Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2007
Canada has been an engaged participant in global climate change negotiations since the late 1980s. Until recently, Canadian policy seemed to be driven in large part by a desire to join in multilateral efforts to address climate change. By contrast, current policy is seeking a "made in Canada"...
Separate Beds
A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada’s system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the “Indian Hospitals” were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation....
Residential Schools and Reconciliation
Canada Confronts Its History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement...
The Trial That Never Ends
Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' in Retrospect
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The fiftieth anniversary of the Adolf Eichmann trial may have come and gone but in many countries around the world there is a renewed focus on the trial, Eichmann himself, and the nature of his crimes. This increased attention also stimulates scrutiny of Hannah Arendt’s influential and controversial...
Backrooms and Beyond
Partisan Advisers and the Politics of Policy Work in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Though they serve in many roles and under many titles, no one doubts that political staffs now wield substantial influence in the making of government policy. Backrooms and Beyond draws on interviews with ministers, senior public servants, and political advisers to offer the first detailed Canadian...
Next-Year Country
A Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1951
In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town of Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946.
Dr Burnet examines geographical and economic conditions in Hanna, and shows how...
Cities and the Politics of Difference
Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning...
Significant Developments in Local School Systems
Ontario's Educative Society, Volume VI
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
This volume deals with innovative developments of many different kinds in the local school systems in the years up to 1970. Information was obtained from a sampling of school boards, including the largest. The major purpose is to show what may be expected from an educational organization that gives...