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Political Elites in Canada

Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times

by Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, Andrea Lawlor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018

Political Elites in Canada offers a timely look at Canadian politics and how power brokers are adapting to a fast-paced digital media environment. Elite power structures are changing worldwide, and the rise and fall of political influencers permeates national headlines. In many areas, traditional...

Unjust by Design

Canada’s Administrative Justice System

by Ron Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly court functions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch “judicial” tribunals are surrogate courts and together comprise a little-known system of administrative justice that annually makes hundreds of thousands of contentious,...

Accusation

Creating Criminals

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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016

The punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization have received considerable attention. Less well documented is the actual role, process, and meaning of accusation per se. This collection of essays sets out the terms of a new debate about a largely overlooked but foundational dimension...

Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora

Korean Media in Vancouver and Los Angeles

by Sherry S. Yu
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018

Media for diasporic communities have emerged in major cities, such as Vancouver and Los Angeles, and reflect a multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual reality. Both conventional media and increasingly prevalent digital spaces link migrants locally in their new homes and globally with their old...

Disarming Intervention

A Critical History of Non-Lethality

by Seantel Anaïs
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015

Non-lethal weapons take many forms – from rubber bullets to electroshock and long-range acoustic devices – which their proponents argue are ethical, legal, and humane. Social scientists, historians, legal scholars, and activists have long challenged the use of non-lethal weapons in policing and...

Turning Point 1917

The British Empire at War

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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017

For the British Empire and its allies of the Great War, 1917 was a year marked by crises. But here and there glimmers of light pierced the gloom. Soldiers began solving the problems posed by trench warfare. The dominions asserted themselves in the councils of imperial power. And the US finally entered...

The Terrific Engine

Income Taxation and the Modernization of the Canadian Political Imaginary

by David Tough
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

The Terrific Engine is the story of how the engine of income taxation profoundly transformed the way people talk and think about politics in Canada. What do we mean by left wing or right wing? This language of a political spectrum came into use in the early twentieth century, when political parties...

The Politics of Linkage

Power, Interdependence, and Ideas in Canada-US Relations

by Brian Bow
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

Do Canada and the United States share a special relationship, or is this a mere myth that has masked stark calculations of national interest? Recent tensions over the Iraq War and ballistic missile defence have resurrected this perennial Canadian debate and triggered alarm about whether the US would...

Abortion

History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler

by Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in this country. In Abortion, some of the foremost researchers in Canada challenge current thinking by revealing the discrepancy between what people...

This Small Army of Women

Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War

by Linda J. Quiney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017

This Small Army of Women will appeal to anyone interested in nursing history, women’s history, Canadian history, and military history.

Before and After the State

Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest

by Allan K. McDougall, Lisa Philips, Daniel L. Boxberger
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

The evolution of the Canada–US borderland in the Pacific Northwest included the wholesale transformation of social organization and individual identities together with the redefinition and application of public power. Before and After the State examines the impact of those changes across a region...

Parties and Party Systems

Structure and Context

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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015

Parties and Party Systems will interest upper-level and graduate students of political science (particularly students of Canadian politics), scholars of political science (including comparative party scholars), party officials and activists, public servants, journalists, and political aficionados.

Contested Constitutionalism

Reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

The introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was accompanied by much fanfare and public debate. Twenty-five years later the Charter remains the subject of controversy as social commentators and public intellectuals assess its influence on political institutions, public policy,...

Be Wise! Be Healthy!

Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns

by Catherine Carstairs, Bethany Philpott, Sara Wilmshurst
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise more. For well over a century, governments and voluntary groups have run educational campaigns encouraging Canadians to adopt health habits that promise to prolong lives, increase our quality of life, cost the state less, and make us more efficient workers. Be Wise!...
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