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Funding Policies and the Nonprofit Sector in Western Canada
Evolving Relationships in a Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Funding Policies and the Nonprofit Sector in Western Canada offers a detailed yet accessible account of nonprofit funding policies in a region characterized by fiscal conservatism, a cyclical resource-based economy, and a growing share of Canada’s population and GDP.
The chapters in this...
by Irving Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr. Brecher records and comments on the development of monetary and fiscal thinking in Canada in the inter-war period, and its impact on public policy in the federal sphere. Examining Canadian...
Health Systems in Transition
Canada, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The health care system in Canada is much-discussed in the international sphere, but often overlooked when it comes to its highly decentralized administration and regulation. Health Systems in Transition: Canada provides an objective description and analysis of the public, private, and mixed components...
Social Purpose Enterprises
Case Studies for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change presents case studies of twelve organizations that operate in a growing niche within the Canadian social economy: market-based entities supported by a nonprofit organization and operated for the benefit of a workforce who lives on the margins...
Pensions at Work
Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
Pension funds have come to play an increasingly important role within the new economy. According to Statistics Canada, in 2006, trusteed pension funds in Canada had $836 billion of assets and represented the savings of 4.6 million Canadian workers. Pensions at Work is a unique collection of papers...
by J. R. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
As every schoolboy knows, Canada is one of the larger trading countries of the world but, from the point of view of balancing her international merchandise trade payments, she does not export enough. The purpose of this book is to describe, not in broad economic terms, but in daily practical detail,...
by James J. Rice, Michael J. Prince
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A consistent bestseller since its publication in 2000, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy is a one-of-a-kind resource in the fields of political science and social work. Examining current conditions affecting the development of social policies in Canada, this book offers in-depth critical...
Age of Icons
Exploring Philanthrocapitalism in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Celebrities are increasingly front and centre in public debates on everything from solving world poverty to halting genocide, confronting obesity, and finding spiritual contentment. Bono, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Bob Geldof, Oprah, Madonna, and Angelina Jolie are just some of the entertainers, politicians,...
by Michael M. Atkinson, William D. Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
The late twentieth century has seen profound changes in the character of the international economic order. According to the authors of this study, Canada has failed to come to terms with those changes. Our industrial policy is diffuse, ad hoc, and sectoral. Michael Atkinson and William Coleman argue...
by Sandford Borins, Kenneth Kernaghan, David Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2007
The impact of information technology (IT) on government in the last five years has been profound. Using the governments of Canada and Ontario (both recognized as international leaders in the use of IT) as case studies, Digital State at the Leading Edge is the first attempt to take a comprehensive...
The World Won't Wait
Why Canada Needs to Rethink its International Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The need for an ambitious and forward-looking Canadian international strategy has never been greater. The worldwide changes that jeopardize Canadian security and prosperity are profound, ranging from the globalization of commerce, crime, and political extremism to the impact of climate change on the...
The Inequality Trap
Fighting Capitalism Instead of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.” It has inspired the “Occupy” movements, made a French economist into a global celebrity, and given us a new expression – the “one percent.” But is our preoccupation with inequality really justified?...
The Montreal Canadiens
Rethinking a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
One of the most famous and certainly most successful professional hockey teams of all time, the Montreal Canadiens are practically a national institution in Quebec society. More than any other team, the Habs play an important role in the identity, economy, and culture of their home town and province.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
In 1958 the Canadian Political Science Association established a committee to look into ways and means of improving statistical research in the social sciences in Canada. One of the ways in which the committee thought this could be done was by establishing an annual forum where papers could be presented...