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by Donald Savoie
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
There is a consensus throughout much of the western world that the public sector is in urgent need of repair. This study seeks to understand why this is so by comparing developments in Canada and the United Kingdom. It looks to changes in values both in society and inside government, and to the relationships...
Visiting Grandchildren
Economic Development in the Maritimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2006
During his successful campaign to become Conservative Party leader in the spring of 2004, Stephen Harper said of the Maritime provinces, "We will see the day when the region is not the place where you visit your grandparents, but instead more often than not the place where you visit your grandchildren."...
Negotiating the Deal
Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the factors that explain both completed and incomplete treaty negotiations between Aboriginal groups and the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada. Since 1973, groups that have never signed treaties with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Between 1750 and 1820, tides of revolution swept the Atlantic world. From the new industrial towns of Great Britain to the plantations of Haiti, they heralded both the rise of democratic nationalism and the subsequent surge of imperial reaction.
In Imagining the British Atlantic after the American...
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2002
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the 'grassroots' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony...
The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti
An Edition and English Translation of His Dialogue on Mechanics, 1576
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Mechanics has long been recognized as the pivotal science in the decline of Aristotelian natural philosophy and the rise of the new, mathematical physics of the Scientific Revolution. Less well known, however, is the earlier transformation of mechanics from a practical art into a theoretical and mathematical...
Revisiting 1759
The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their nature and implications continue to be debated. Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath...
Police and Government Relations
Who's Calling the Shots?
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2007
Questions of police governance, accountability and independence have been subjected to thorough research before. That the issue still draws critical attention more than twenty years after the McDonald Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police suggests that...
The People's House of Commons
Theories of Democracy in Contention
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2007
Canada's House of Commons has come under considerable attack in recent years. Many critics have contended that the House has been unresponsive to public opinion, and that its party leaders have too much control, while leaving individual MPs essentially powerless. The House has also faced challenges...
The Case of Valentine Shortis
A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Two men were shot and killed in the office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, on a night in 1895. A third victim, shot through the head, managed to survive. Charged with the murders was Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant. His trial, the longest on record at the time in...
Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered
British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2011
Throughout the British colonies in the nineteenth century, judges were expected not only to administer law and justice, but also to play a significant role within the governance of their jurisdictions. British authorities were consequently concerned about judges' loyalty to the Crown, and on occasion...
Courted and Abandoned
Seduction in Canadian Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
A pregnancy outside of marriage was a traumatic event in frontier Canada, one that had profound legal implications, not only for the mother, but also for the woman's family, the alleged father, and for the entire community. Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century...
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This volume is the second in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series, designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history. In combination, these volumes reflect the wide-ranging scope of legal history as an intellectual discipline andencourage...
At Odds
Gambling and Canadians, 1919-1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Using a rich variety of historical sources, Suzanne Morton traces the history of gambling regulation in five Canadian provinces – Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and B.C. – from the First World War to the federal legalization in 1969. This regulatory legislation, designed to control...