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Enduring work
Comparing the lived reality of agricultural workers, in-home caregivers, and low- and high-wage workers, and integrating the perspectives of employers both reluctant and reckless, Catherine Connelly unpacks the harms within Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program and offers nuanced strategies t...
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From politics to profit
In their drive to maximize profits, Canadian publishers abandoned partisan politics and adopted sensationalistic journalism to build audiences for advertisers. From Politics to Profit analyses the decisive period in which newspapers changed in content and appearance as the number of "fluff" piece...
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Commodity politics
As the international community calls for more responsible environmental, social, and governance performance, the politics of commodities becomes more fraught. Commodity Politics cuts through responsibility rhetoric and presents research from Cameroon to provide a better understanding of the polit...
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Stabilization, growth, and distribution
This second volume in the Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy focuses on stabilization issues, growth and innovation, and labour markets. The essays explore linkages among macro-stabilization policy, economic growth, innovation activity, and distribution.
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Booze, cigarettes, and constitutional dust-ups
In 2012, after Gerard Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into New Brunswick, police officers tailed and detained him, confiscated his haul, and levied a fine. With Comeau’s story as his starting point, Ryan Manucha tells the fascinating tale of Canadian interpro...
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The limits to satisfaction
At a time when the supply of resources is a problem, William Leiss analyses demand and consumption. Why do we need so much? Does the ability to choose from such a wide range of commodities give us more satisfaction? Why do we accept being pushed into buying products about which we know little bec...
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Canada in the european age, 1453-1919, new edition
When Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 was first published, it reversed traditional methodology by placing Canada's evolution in the context of the rise and fall of empires around the world, not just in the Americas. R.T. Naylor contends that the struggle for property (and political) rights i...
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Hot money and the politics of debt, third edition
A ball of hot money rolls around the world. It seeks anonymity and political refuge. It dodges taxes and sidesteps currency controls. It rolls through offshore shell companies and secret bank accounts, phoney charities and fraudulent religious foundations
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Land, power, and economics on the frontier of upper canada
Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada examines Ontario's formative years, focusing on Essex County in Ontario from 1788 to 1850. Upper Canadian attitudes to land and society are shown to have been built on contemporary visions of the cosmos. John Clarke examines the actions o...
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Business and politics
This is the first comprehensive study of the origins, structure, membership, and resources of interest groups representing business firms in Canada. William Coleman shows how Canadian businesses have used such associations to acquire special privileges within the policy process and to avoid assum...
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À quoi sert la philanthropie
Dans À quoi sert la philanthropie?, Hilary Pearson démystifie le monde de la philanthropie canadienne en dressant un portrait actuel des fondations et en mettant en lumière des organisations qui agissent avec détermination face à certains des défis sociaux et économiques les plus pressants de not...
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Patriots and profiteers, second edition
Almost everyone assumes that by enforcing trade sanctions and arms embargoes, modern democracies make tin-pot dictators and rogue states mend their ways - that the application of economic pressure is easily the most effective way to curb aggression and encourage respect for human rights.R.T. Nayl...
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Powering up canada
A comprehensive history of energy sources - from wood to nuclear - and their role in shaping Canadian society.
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Ceta implementation and implications
CETA Implementation and Implications provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, its most important elements, and its obstacles, accomplishments, and early effects. Contributors offer a nuanced look at CETA and its implicati...
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The 2006 federal budget
The 2006 federal budget was the first for a new Conservative minority government led by a prime minister from the west. As a platform for implementing distinctive election promises, the 2006 budget offered ample opportunity for rethinking fiscal priorities in Canada, such as cutting the GST, addr...
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The unemployment crisis
High unemployment dominates the Canadian social reality of the 1990s. Lay-offs, cutbacks, and corporate downsizings during the 1990-93 recession created a pervasive economic insecurity that remains a problem. The Unemployment Crisis, a collection of essays based on the first annual economic polic...
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Flexible innovation
The recent wave of technological alliances is changing the way high-technology companies conduct research and development in Canada. While most companies still conduct their R&D in isolation, the secretive, closed laboratory is becoming a thing of the past. Flexible Innovation, the first stud...
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Innovation, institutions and territory
Innovation, Institutions and Territory explores the influence of regional culture and institutions on innovation in Canada. The authors begin with a discussion of conceptual issues underlying analysis of the innovation process in a regional setting and then turn to an examination of Canada's rese...
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Integrating school and workplace learning in canada
In response to concerns that our educational system B from public schools through colleges, universities, and apprenticeship programs - cannot adequately prepare students for work in the new economy, Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada proposes alternation - a hybrid form of learn...
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Confrontation at winnipeg, revised edition
Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history? Bercuson answers this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the strike.
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Reforming the canadian financial sector
With the tabling of the recent financial policy white paper and the even more recent striking of the Task Force on Canadian Financial Services, Reforming the Canadian Financial Sector is a timely and important evaluation of the Canadian financial sector. The volume is forward-looking and embraces...
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Hidden scourge
Analyzing over 100,000 industrial spills from Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, Montana, and the Northwest Territories, this book takes the reader behind the firewall of disinformation to uncover scientific truths about crude oil and saline water spills and the cumulative impacts of the fossil...
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Framing financial structure in an information environment
Management strives to find efficient and effective organizational structures that offer enough flexibility to facilitate response to environmental change. Regulators strive to find effective responses to the challenges presented by the rapidly changing dynamics of financial system operations. In ...
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Basic income and a just society
In examining the key arguments advanced by proponents of a basic income, contributors to this volume take a hard look at Canada’s social safety net and propose a different path forward – one that entails a full paradigm shift in social policy and rests on providing the bases of self- and social r...
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