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Cover of The Story of Canadian Roads
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968

From the portage trails snaking their way through the wilderness to superhighways carrying the raw materials and produce of an industrial nation, Canada's roads have had a romantic but long-neglected history. For the first time their development is described in this handsomely illustrated volume by...
Cover of Transportation Rates and Economic Development in Northern Ontario
by N.C. Bonsor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977

This book examines the influence of transport costs on regional economic development in northern Ontario. It begins with an overview of the Canadian freight rate structure, with emphasis on railway rates, and a brief look at the history of federal rate policy. A theoretical model of rate determination...
Cover of Canadian Transportation Economics
by A.W. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967

A.W. Currie's Canadian Transportation Economics describes and analyses the economics of transport in Canada whether by rail, highway, inland and coastal waterways, the high seas, air or pipeline. It is written to be of interest to employees of railways, steamship companies, airlines, and pipelines,...
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Private Profits versus Public Policy

The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State

by Joel Lexchin
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016

The widespread condemnation of drastic price increases on life-saving drugs highlights our growing dependency on and vulnerability to international pharmaceutical conglomerates. However, aren’t the interests of the public supposed to supersede the pursuit of private profit? In his new work,...
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Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy

Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States

by Andrea Olive
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014

Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border. Despite this similarity, however, there are significant differences between approaches to wildlife management in these two nations. In Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy, Andrea...
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Auto Pact

Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971

by Dimitry Anastakis
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2005

The 1965 Canada-United States Automotive Trade agreement fundamentally reshaped relations between the automotive business and the state in both countries and represented a significant step toward the creation of an integrated North American economy. Breaking from previous conceptions of the agreement...
Cover of Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England
by Robyn Malo
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013

Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England uncovers a wide-ranging medieval discourse that had an expansive influence on English literary traditions. Drawing from Latin and vernacular hagiography, miracle stories, relic lists, and architectural history, this study demonstrates that, as the shrines...
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Making the Scene

Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s

by Stuart Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011

Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca. It narrates the hip Village's development from its early coffee house days, when folksingers such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell flocked to the scene, to its tumultuous, drug-fuelled final months. A flashpoint for...
Cover of The Wireless Spectrum

The Wireless Spectrum

The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media

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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010

As evidenced by the clientele in any urban coffee shop, devices such as cell phones, BlackBerries, and Wi-Fi-enabled laptops have proliferated, particularly during the past ten years. The Wireless Spectrum explores how wireless technologies have modified both individual and public life, transforming...
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Remembering 1759

The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory

by Phillip Buckner, John G. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012

This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest...
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Deliberative Democracy for the Future

The Case of Nuclear Waste Management in Canada

by Genevieve Fuji Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008

In today's world, public policies are increasingly associated with social and environmental risk and scientific uncertainty. Given such potential impacts on the moral freedom and equality for existing and future generations, policies should reflect decision-making standards beyond those of economic...
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Politics of Energy Dependency

Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure

by Margarita M. Balmaceda
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014

Energy has been an important element in Moscow’s quest to exert power and influence in its surrounding areas both before and after the collapse of the USSR. With their political independence in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania also became, virtually overnight, separate energy-poor entities...
Cover of Revitalizing Liberal Values in a Globalizing World
by Ruud Lubbers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000

The longest serving Dutch Prime Minister (1982-94), Professor Lubbers is known for his support of liberal values, social equity, human rights, democratic governments, and spirituality. In this book he explores ways to conciliate these values with global economization. Dr. Lubbers argues that...
Cover of The Myth of Green Marketing

The Myth of Green Marketing

Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse

by Toby Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998

In this groundbreaking study, Toby Smith analyses the role that social myths such as green marketing play in public understanding of the environmental crisis. This book introduces the concept of hegemony into environmental politics, using the concept to elucidate the political, economic, and...
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