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Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation—an...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2021-05-03
ePub
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Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the “three revolutions” in automotive transportation, as well as the current work of committed people advocating for a different way forward, James Wilt imagines...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2020-06-01
ePub
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Through a combination of historical and contemporary analysis this book shows how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, has made and remade Winnipeg and the Canadian Prairie West over the past one hundred and fifty years. It traces the emergence of a...
Editeur :
Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Parution :
2018-08-31
ePub
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Small Canadian cities confront serious social issues as a result of the neoliberal economic restructuring practiced by both federal and provincial governments since the 1980s. Drastic spending reductions and ongoing restraint in social assistance, income supports, and...
Editeur :
AU Press
Parution :
2018-07-20
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From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2018-05-24
ePub
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Affluenza has not just changed the world, it has also changed the way we see the world. Short of money? Borrow some. Caught in the rain? Buy an umbrella. Thirsty? Buy a bottle of water and throw the bottle away. Our embrace of “convenience” and our acceptance of our...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2018-02-15
ePub
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It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace.It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
ePub
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Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2016-09-30
epub sans DRM
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When some claim austerity is the only answer to today’s economic woes, a close look at the best practices in Scandinavia and Finland gives pause for thought.
Cited as models for their egalitarian social and health policies, these countries also have thriving economies...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2015-11-03
epub sans DRM
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Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2015-05-15
epub sans DRM
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Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-11-08
Collection :
Canadian Commentaries
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In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent village life. Following six households and one village-based institution in coastal Cambodia over a twelve-year period, Marschke...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2012-01-28
ePub
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Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-07
Collection :
TransCanada
ePub
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Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-07
Collection :
TransCanada
ePub
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Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and Inuit and the hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba, including the Wuskwatim Dam Project, Paix des Braves, and the Great...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2011-03-10
epub sans DRM
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A systematic evaluation of Canadian efforts to modernize government service delivery. In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2011-01-14
ePub
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Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
Collection :
Studies in International Governance
ePub
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This hard-hitting but fair assessment of Nova Scotia and the Maritimes will shock and surprise many Maritimers who have been conditioned to think that the east coast of Canada is one of the most liveable regions in the country. Author Peter Moreira, a native Maritimer...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2010-09-01
epub sans DRM
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Russia holds more Arctic territory than any other state, yet unlike other Arctic states it does not have a unified strategy identifying economic and political aims for the North. Russia's policies on the North are dispersed across a variety of fields from domestic...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2010-07-01
ePub
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For the first time, Jacques Parizeau shares his views on Quebec's recent history and its future. As chief economics advisor to Quebec premiers in the 1960s, Jacques Parizeau was instrumental in bringing about Quebe's Quiet Revolution. As René Lévesque's Finance Minister...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2010-05-10
epub sans DRM
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