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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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Citizens, civil society, and activism under the eprdf regime in ethiopia
This collection asks how citizens and civil society express their interests and exert their agency in authoritarian settings. Focusing on the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front regime over three decades, the book explores civic activism in Ethiopia, presenting diverse examples of h...
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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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Just fodder
Just Fodder addresses ethical and political questions arising from thinking about animals as eaters rather than as foodstuffs. Josh Milburn offers a novel theory of animal rights that insists that figuring out the full range of our obligations to animals requires asking questions about the nature...
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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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The immaculate conception of data
Large-scale agribusinesses are among the largest and oldest oligopoly corporations in the world, now constituting a form of big tech alongside companies like Google and Facebook. The Immaculate Conception of Data explores the secretive legal agreements surrounding agricultural big data to trace h...
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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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Wrestling with life
A story of survival and renewal from Auschwitz to success in sport and business.
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Dirty money
“Dirty Money offers valuable insight into this vexing and important topic. The expert perspectives of its contributors shed light on money laundering, financial crime, and the ever-present shadow of corruption – all real concerns for today’s governments and the public at large.” The Hon. Austin C...
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Shaping the futures of work
Shaping the Futures of Work explores the impact of technological innovations on employment for millennials and professionals globally. In a flux society, what counts as a technological skill is always changing. Through a sociological study of Singaporean millennials, Raghunath suggests thriving t...
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Corporate autonomy and institutional control
Douglas Stevens believes that the balance between corporate autonomy and institutional control is a central issue in the management of Crown corporations. In Corporate Autonomy and Institutional Control he investigates the effects of various organization designs on this balance, taking into accou...
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Staples, markets, and cultural change
This new edition of Harold Innis's essays, published on the occasion of his centenary, assembles his most significant and representative writing. Included are many of Innis's essays on cultural issues and economic development - subjects he explored throughout his life - that have not been readily...
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Africa's gene revolution
An evaluation of the potential for genetically modified crops to alleviate poverty and hunger in Africa.
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Arvida au saguenay
Founded in 1925, the town of Arvida was established to provide labour for Alcan's plant on the Saguenay River. With the arrival of big business in the rural Quebec countryside, two cultures collided -- the modern industrial culture of English North America and the traditional rural culture of Fre...
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