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Practising Social Work Research
Case Studies for Learning, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development. Adopting strategies similar to those used in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice, and in so doing promotes...
Stickhandling through the Margins
First Nations Hockey in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Some of hockey’s fiercest and most passionate players and fans can be found among Canada's First Nations populations, including NHL greats Jordin Tootoo, Jonathan Cheechoo, and Gino Odjick. At first glance the importance of hockey to the country's Aboriginal peoples may seem to indicate assimilation...
by Harry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The echoes of Laurier's remarks about Canada and the twentieth century are taking a long time to fade away. It is one of the purposes of Professor Johnson's Alan B. Plaunt Lectures (given at Carleton University in 1962) to silence them, for they can prove dangerous and misleading—like a siren song—in...
1 Way 2 C The World
Writings 1984-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
Marilyn Waring is a truly absorbing figure known as a distinguished public intellectual, a leading feminist thinker, environmentalist, social justice activist, and for her early political career after election to New Zealand's parliament at age twenty-three. Assembling some of her most thought-provoking...
Women's Health in Canada
Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women's health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women's...
Empowering Children
Children's Rights Education as a Pathway to Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2007
Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education. To date, 192 states are signatories to or have in some form ratified the accord. Children...
by R. MacGregor Dawson, W.F. Dawson, Norman Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
For more than a generation this concise survey has been the classic introduction to the fundamental ideas and structure of Canadian government and the practice of democracy in this country. It examines the various elements of federal government — the House of Commons, the cabinet, the Senate, the...
Courts in Federal Countries
Federalists or Unitarists?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Courts are key players in the dynamics of federal countries since their rulings have a direct impact on the ability of governments to centralize and decentralize power. Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany,...
Fiscal Adjustment and Economic Development
A Case Study of Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
This study is an attempt to find a solution to the problem of fiscal adjustment between a province or a state and its municipalities–a pressing problem throughout Canada and the United States and in many other countries in view of the great disparities in the revenue-raising capacity of municipalities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The idea of the Arctic Ocean as a mediterranean sea is a shock to those of us—and that includes most of us—who cannot shake ourselves free of the Mercatorean vision. Yet this theme is repeated by many of the eminent ocntributors to this volume: as Michael Marsden states, "IT is difficult...
by Carla Cesaroni, Anthony N. Doob
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2004
In Responding to Youth Crime in Canada, Anthony Doob and Carla Cesaroni describe how Canada has been responding to youth crime in the context of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which came into force on April 1, 2003. The authors describe what is known about Canadian youth crime, and the operation...
Milanese Encounters
Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In a city driven by fashion and design, visibility and invisibility are powerful forces. Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power structures in contemporary Milan.
Cristina Moretti’s ethnographic study reveals how...
A Quiet Evolution
The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous...
Responding to Human Trafficking
Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Responding to Human Trafficking is the first book to critically examine responses to the growing issue of human trafficking in Canada. Julie Kaye challenges the separation of trafficking debates into international versus domestic emphases and explores the tangled ways in which anti-trafficking policies...