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Canada’s next major challenge is not economic or political. It’s ethical. On the issue of racism, Canadians tend to compare themselves favourably to Americans and to rely on a concession that Canadian racism, if it exists at all, is more “subtle.” Is there a future time when newcomers and visible...
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Insurgent love
When loved ones transgress into violence, how do we seek justice and safety outside of policing and prisons?
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About canada
The third edition of Health and Illness shows how inequitable distribution of the social determinants of health are determined by public policy decisions.
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Transforming communities
This extraordinary exploration of the dangers and possibilities facing human communities rejects the current myth that capitalism, led by global corporations, is providing the solutions required to survive and prosper in the decades ahead.
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Power and resistance
How do we make sense of the social problems that continue to plague Canadian society? Our understanding of issues such as poverty, racism, violence, homophobia, crime and pollution stems from our view of how society is structured. From the dominant neoliberal perspective, social problems arise fr...
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Power & resistance
Examining at a wide range of issues such as violence, poverty, feminism, racism, and privatization of healthcare, the Contributors to this collection use a variety of analytical approaches to posit that the social, economic, and political issues confronting Canadians are shaped by social inequity...
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Change a life, change your own
“Change a Life, Change Your Own is a long-overdue adult discussion about how child sponsorship, a spectacularly successful fundraising tool, infantilizes both donor and recipient, turning good intentions into paternalism and reinforcing stereotypical Western ideas about helplessness and hopelessn...
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Dispatches from the threshold
Tenants narrate their struggles for housing justice as the catastrophes of COVID-19, precarity, and racist police violence converge.
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Maternity rolls
Combining ethnology and memoir, this fascinating book describes the issues surrounding childbirth and motherhood for disabled women. The author, a paraplegic, tells about her own hunt for medical advice before getting pregnant—and then about the normal births of her two children—before widening t...
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Decolonizing equity
This book acknowledges the equity work BIPOC staff do in all institutions as both a burden and a survival mechanism, then explores how this necessary work be done in a less harmful way.
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Manufacturing guilt (2nd edition)
Manufacturing Guilt, 2nd edition, updates the cases presented in the first edition and includes two new chapters: one concerning the case of James Driskell and another regarding Dr. Charles Smith, whose role in forensic pathology evidence led to several wrongful convictions. In this new edition, ...
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Seeking mino-pimatisiwin
Historically, social work and psychology professions have pressured and coerced Aboriginal peoples to follow the euro-centric ways of society. The needs of Aboriginal peoples have not been successfully addressed by helping professioan due to a limited attempt to incorporate Aboriginal perspective...
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About canada: poverty
For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada’s neolibe...
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Anti-racist feminism
Exploring the relational aspects of difference and the implications for re-conceptualizing anti-racism discourse and practice, this book seeks to incite the reader to broaden the examination of social spaces through the lens of an anti-racist, feminist scholarship and practice.
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Orchestrating austerity
Following the 2007–08 global financial crisis, Western nations engaged a variety of measures that departed quite dramatically from conventional neoliberal wisdom. However, these policies were quickly succeeded by what we now call “austerity” measures. This collection engages with the question: Is...
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Canada’s national child benefit
The National Child Benefit announced in the 1997 federal Budget promised 850 million dollars to move children out of the welfare rolls and the trap of poverty. This book attempts to outline the key concepts of this new program and set the stage for discussion of its potential impact. The writers ...
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When justice is a game
Confronting the issue of wrongful convictions, this argument contends that these so-called mistakes or failures of the justice system too often target the financially disadvantaged and visible minority groups. Delving into the issues that underscore these decisions, this discussion suggests that ...
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Power and resistance, 7th ed.
7th edition of a very successful social issues textbook.
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Thin blue rage
Thin Blue Rage analyzes police as a social movement through exploring policing’s ideological dimensions, communications practices, political campaigning, and violence work.
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Doing anti-oppressive social work, 4th ed.
This book continues the strong tradition of 3 editions of Doing Anti-Oppressive practice but adds new issues and cutting-edge critical reflection of AOP
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Generation rising
First there was the Arab Spring, then the Indignados, then Occupy Wall Street. And then there was the Printemps érable — the Maple Spring. In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Québec’s governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition fees. Enraged that the government woul...
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Twilight capitalism
Marx’s laws of value and profitability are indispensable to interpreting the advanced state of decay of world capitalism and informing the struggles of working people to replace it with socialism.
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Aboriginal fishing rights
This book examines the nature of aboriginal fishing rights before and after the Sparrow decision from the perspective of disadvantaged groups and includes interviews with the key players in the fishing industry—the Musqueam Indian Band, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and the commercial i...
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You must be a basketball player
Documenting a black professor’s account of his own professional experience, this study describes what it feels like to be a nonwhite academic in one of the “big three” disciplines in the humanities—English, history, and philosophy. Challenging the notion that today’s Canadian universities have su...
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Tech high
This collaboration of critical essays on the computerization of Canada’s schools examines the current technological revolution in the broader perspective of globalization and the neo-liberal agenda. The authors question the assumptions that technologically-enhanced education will save money, help...
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There’s something in the water
In “There’s Something In The Water”, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the p...
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On time! on task! on a mission!
The three-year-long transformation of Lawrence Heights Middle School from an underachieving, gang-ridden school with a high teacher attrition rate to a thriving, diverse school whose reading, writing, and math scores rated above average in the province is described in this personal account by the...
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Feminism and families
The absence of a specific “family politics” has ceded an important political space to anti-feminist movements and weakened the capacity of the feminist movement to intervene effectively in the debates and struggles of the current period. Despite significant changes in family, domestic and interpe...
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The truth that wampum tells
In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Treaty at Niagara, The Truth that Wampum Tells offers readers a first-ever insider analysis of the contemporary land claims and self-government process in Canada. Incorporating an analysis of traditional symbolic literacy known as wampum diplomacy,...
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Reconciliation and indigenous justice
This book provides an account of the ongoing ties between the enduring traumas caused by the residential schools and Indigenous over-incarceration
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Heroin
The only book-length Canadian history of the harm done from criminalizing heroin users and addicts, the most horrendous being overdose epidemics caused by poisoned drugs.
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Green capitalism
What should be done to resolve the climate crisis? Daniel Tanuro argues that government measures – eco-taxes, commodification of natural resources and carbon trading – do not tackle the main problem: the drive for profit. Evidence from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other sourc...
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Critical development studies
Development studies is typically used by agencies concerned on improving the living conditions of people across the world by advancing capitalism as the institutional and policy framework of the global development process. Veltmeyer and Delgado Wise, on the contrary, view capitalism as the proble...
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Nova scotia
Providing a concise chronicle of its various cultures, this handy reference recounts the broad and complex history of Nova Scotia, Canada. Beginning with an exploration of its indigenous people, the Mi’Kmaq, this overview delves into the stories of the first European settlers before reviewing the...
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Critical social work praxis
A cutting-edge critical social work textbook that unites social work theory with practice.
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The dirt
Based on interviews with miners, union and company archives, newspapers, and reports by mine inspectors, this study looks at the tragic link between the dust and radiation of St. Lawrence`s government mines and approximately 200 fatal cases of lung disease and silicosis among former miners. By ch...
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Debriefing elsipogtog
In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government provided a licence to search over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New Brunswickers signed petitions, wrote letters, demonstrated and sought le...
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Mothering for the state
Tells the surprising, troubling, and heart warming story of 20 foster mothers and their daily activities.
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Transforming the field
This primer to antiracist and antioppressive social work practices explores the ways in which power and dominance are embedded in every facet of fieldwork. A framework is provided for responding to social issues in the field and finding ways to break down barriers.
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Listen!
An examination on how listening shapes who we are, weaves the world and grounds our movements for justice and liberation.
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About canada: health care, 2nd edition
Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public...
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Aski awasis/children of the earth
A celebration of the work of Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) in Alberta, this collection of essays describes the agency`s bold new model that integrates First Peoples’ adoption practices with provincial adoption laws and regulations. Now expecting closure to the long debate in Canada ove...
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The bylaw state
Cities weaponize bylaws to manage, regulate, and police the mobility and conditions of unhoused people living in encampments amid a massive housing crisis.
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“i hate feminists!”
On December 6, 1989, a man walked into the engineering school École Polytechnique de Montreal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and, declaring “I hate feminists,” killed fourteen young women. “I Hate Feminists”, originally published in French in 2009, examines the collective memory that emerged ...
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Gender, law & justice
Gender, Law and Justice explores feminist theoretical frameworks and gendered experiences of Canadian law and the criminal justice system. Taken together, the authors advance an intersectional approach that examines how the law structures and is structured by social contexts, socio-demographics a...
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Accidental opportunities
Compelling and inspiring, this autobiography chronicles the life of Bridglal "Bridge" Pachai, a lifelong advocate of social justice whose journey has taken him from South Africa to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The book traces his years teaching history—at universities in South Africa, Malawi, Gambia, an...
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The illusion of inclusion
Both as students and as faculty, women continue to be discriminated against on Canadian campuses in ways ranging from the most systemic and institutional to the most interpersonal and subjective. Contributors to this anthology explore the contradiction between the widespread belief that women and...
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Fight back
Examining immigration within an international context, this discussion explores the complex issues surrounding immigrant workers. Based on the collaboration between a group of university-affiliated researchers and community organizations, this detailed study explores the policies regarding immigr...
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Risk & trust
Criticizing the idea that new technologies are independent of the society in which they are created, this up-to-date analysis explains the concept of the "risk society" and the benefits of technological change. By exploring a broad range of case studies—including young women in conflict with the ...
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Viola desmond’s canada
Winner of the 2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction!The Miramichi Reader’s best non-fiction book of 2016In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government reco...
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In pursuit of justice
This is the story of Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op, Canada’s first fair trade coffee roaster. This book describes its successes and its failures and details how a small group of people — “just us” — worked against adversity and defied many of the norms associated with building a business. In thi...
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Social perspectives on death and dying (2nd edition)
While death is an inevitable happening in all our lives, the perspectives that we hold about death and dying are socially constructed. This text takes us through the maze of issues, both social and personal, which surround death and dying in our country. The author invites us not to just peek at ...
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Unjust transition
The worker lockout at Regina’s Co-op Refinery Complex shows that, left unchecked, corporations will transfer the costs and burdens of the necessary transition to a fossil fuel–free future to workers.
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The fourth world
An examination of the cultural assumptions embedded in the theories propounded by white feminists, this important contribution to fourth-world theory provides a distinctive perspective on the dichotomy between Eurocentric and Aboriginal thought. Challenges to the hegemony of contemporary feminist...
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The servant state
The global financial and industrial turmoil of recent years has once more brought the crisis-prone nature of the capitalist system to the forefront. In the context of economic stagnation and the retreat of working-class organizations, the rich and powerful around the world have redoubled their at...
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Arguing with numbers
This book focuses on how to construct and demolish arguments based on numbers and prepares students for future statistics courses. Addressing serious students who may approach statistics with some fear and trepidation, this preparatory text provides explanations for statistical manipulations in f...
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Bankruptcies & bailouts
Taking a closer look at the industrialized world, this revealing study claims that Canada is in the midst of an economic crisis of global proportions—and that Nobel Prize–winning economists failed to see it coming. This accessible survey tackles the roots of this monetary disaster with a collecti...
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Canadian labour in crisis
Does Canada have a working-class movement? Though many of us think of ourselves as middle class, most of us are, in fact, working class: we work for a wage. And though many of us are members of unions – the most significant organizations of the working-class movement in Canada – most people do no...
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Screening justice
What do Canadian films say about crime and justice in Canada? What purpose to Canadian crime films serve politically and culturally?Screening Justice is a scholarly exploration of films that focus on crime and justice in Canada. Crime films are pivotal for understanding and shaping Canadian sensi...
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The power to criminalize
The tension between traditionalist legal theories that maintain that the law dispenses justice in an impartial fashion and critical theories that maintain that the law reproduces gender, race, and class inequalities provides a context for this investigation into law`s complicity in perpetuating d...
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Take back the fight
In Take Back The Fight, Nora Loreto examines the state of modern feminism in Canada and argues that feminists must organize to take back feminism from politicians, business leaders and journalists who distort and obscure its power.
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When poverty mattered
Founded in Toronto in 1968, the Praxis Corporation was a progressive research institute mandated to spark political discussion about a range of social issues, such as poverty, homelessness, anti-war activism, community activism and worker organization. Deemed a radical threat by the Canadian stat...
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Japan at century`s end
This timely compilation of 21 essays covers the wide range of issues that confronted Japan in the late 1990s and provides a mainly Canadian perspective on domestic and international politics, the economy, business, technology, social issues, and the environment.
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Inner city renovation
Inner City Renovation (ICR) is a much-heralded social enterprise in Winnipeg’s North End which has become an example of the potential for social enterprises to support people living on society’s margins and engage them in a productive livelihood. This book, written by former ICR general manager a...
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Calculated kindness
Debunking the common perception that immigrants are admitted into a new country because of the host country`s generosity and willingness to provide refuge and security, this collection of immigrant case studies suggests that immigrants are admitted to serve a host country`s economic interests or ...
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Pieces of a puzzle
Intended for practitioners, researchers, and students interested in contemporary perspectives on child sexual abuse, this volume offers a description of current Canadian research and intervention efforts on topics that include treatment for young victims, understanding mothers of children who hav...
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Challenging politics
This history of Vancouver`s Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) examines the processes and pitfalls of coalition building at the urban level. The role of politics in the era of globalization is a key issue discussed, with emphasis on how electoral politics and processes must adhere to democr...
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Accounting for genocide
Accounting for Genocide is an original and controversial book that retells the history of the subjugation and ongoing economic marginalization of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. Its authors demonstrate the ways in which successive Canadian governments have combined accounting techniques and economic...
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Scoundrels and shirkers
This book integrates a sophisticated analysis of contemporary poverty with a full historical account of capitalism.
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Got blood to give
Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, this book investigates how racist and homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation.
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Pursuing justice
Pursuing justice is daunting. It plays out in a variety of contexts — like the environment, employment, the criminal justice system — and raises tough issues like racism, gender discrimination and poverty. But ultimately the aim of studying justice is to achieve it.This book is about justice in C...
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Wild children — domesticated dreams
An anthropological analysis of education, this book is the first to examine the root cause of contemporary pedagogical systems from a truly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. This confluence of ethology and anthropology reveals that the very category “human” is a requirement of civili...
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Lessons from the zapatistas
Essential reading on the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico — its history, its peoples’ autonomy and its revolutionary thought.
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More will sing their way to freedom
More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom is about Indigenous resistance and resurgence across lands and waters claimed by Canada. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors describe and analyze struggles against contemporary colonialism by the Canadian state and, more broadly, against the global ...
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Essential work, disposable workers
This book is about the massive expansion of precarious work under neoliberalism and how migrant workers are challenging the conditions of their hyper-exploitation through struggles for worker rights and justice.
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About canada: health & illness
Most Canadians believe that their health is shaped by luck, genetics, lifestyle choices, and treatment options—and government agencies, public health units, and disease associations all reinforce this perception. This study, however, tells a different story, arguing that it is the social determin...
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No going back
Allowing women to tell their stories in their own voices, this book reveals their collective experience in all its complexity.
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Inside capitalism
These days almost anyone is bound to be depressed by the litany of economic woes we are told are besieging Canada. At the same time, mainstream economists, politicians and business leaders claim that workers’ wages must fall, the social safety net must be stripped away, taxes must be cut and envi...
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Women in trouble
This book addresses two areas of feminist scholarship—the recognition of violence against women and the endeavor to make visible the lives of women in prison. Beginning with personal accounts of trouble with the law and using a combination of socialist and standpoint feminism, the collection pres...
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Crimes, laws and communities
In this book, McMullan and his colleagues have provided much needed information and analysis on “unconventional” crimes by researching fire for profit, illegal fishing and business crime in Atlantic Canada. The three essays fill an information gap left by scant media reports, conflicting governme...
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Inference & persuasion
Intended to help readers become better informed about logic, this guide considers the relationships between reason, thought, and the external world. Hoping to recruit more independent thinkers, the authors discuss how logic and belief relate to one another and offer a non-traditional perspective ...
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Criminalizing women
This reference focuses on the key issues addressed by feminists in their engagement with criminology over the past four decades. Exploring women`s lives as "errant females," this volume maps out the connections between the choices women make and their environment as linked to the wider socio-poli...
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Settler
Canada has never had an “Indian problem”— but it does have a Settler problem. But what does it mean to be Settler? And why does it matter?Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century...
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Organizing the 1%
Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But corporate power also reaches into civil society and politics in many ways that greatly constrain democracy.I...
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Victim no more
Challenging the notion that women are simply victims, this in-depth discussion is a celebration of women’s resistance. Exploring the moments beyond victimization, this argument emphasizes that women do not stay crushed and broken but instead strive forward to continue building and growing. The Co...
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Yellow ribbons
Since 2001 and the beginning of the “War on Terror,” Canadian culture has undergone a profound militarization. Moving away from previous myths of national identity centred on notions of multiculturalism and peacekeeping, Canada is increasingly being defined through a new patriotism based on milit...
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About canada: dental care
Dental care in Canada is for those who can afford it. What will it take to make oral health care free?
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Making sense of society
A fresh and radical approach to introducing social thought to undergraduate social science students, Making Sense of Society reflects the excitement and verve of a field in transition.
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My union, my life
This personal memoir of Jean-Claude Parrot, the national president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for 15 years, doubles as the story of the labor union`s formation and rise to fame.
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In the other room
Analyzing the impact of motherhood on a woman’s life, this intriguing study investigates the relationships between new and experienced mothers. Acknowledging how beginning mothers are able to articulate, debate, and negotiate dimensions of their mothering experiences with other mothers, this disc...
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Hiding in plain sight
Based on interviews with service providers from the immigration, criminal justice and family justice systems in four different communities in BC, Hiding in Plain Sight examines the barriers encountered by abused immigrant women across Canada.
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Guantanamo north
One of the few book-length discussions of Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act, this examination of the legislation passed in Canada shortly after September 11, 2001, documents the governmental debates leading up to the bill’s passage and reveals how the court system has interpreted the law and the way th...
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Apostles of greed
“Provides a readable history of the eighteenth century origins of the ‘myth of the individual in the market,’ traces subsequent modifications of this idea, and details its contemporary revival…Like other religious relics, once removed from its ritual setting, the mythology of the individual in th...
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The guy in the green truck
Spotlighting one man’s choice to abandon security for chance, this biographical memoir relates the inspiring story of John St. Amand, who left a promising career as a sociologist—along with handsome health and retirement benefits—to take on the turbulent life of a union organizer. Documenting one...
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In their own voices
An examination of the Canadian, urban-aboriginal experience based on the voices of native peoples, this study focuses on innovative community-based solutions being created and run by and for urban aboriginal people. Set primarily in Winnipeg`s inner city, this sourcebook examines such topics as a...
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The poetics of anti-racism
Exposing the linguistic racism that permeates vocabulary about race and equity, this book addresses the importance of unseating the sometimes unrecognized racism of everyday Language. The Contributors discuss the potential of words to prompt a real change in discourse—and then in the world—and ca...
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No choice
In 1969, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau passed a law legalizing abortion in Canada. But making abortion legal did not guarantee women access to these services. In many communities around the country, women have had to travel great distances and at great personal expense to exercise their legal rig...
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Disability and social change
This edited collection uses a critical theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disabilities, family members, researchers, academics and practitioners. This book is an ideal text for students of social work,...
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Research is ceremony
Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put i...
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