University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Dreams of Equality
Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both...
Information in the Labour Market
Job-Worker Matching and Its Implications for Education in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
This study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level. The schools are viewed as helping students discover jobs matched to their abilities, and policy prescriptions are offered from that standpoint.
After...
Voices From the Voluntary Sector
Perspectives on Leadership Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
The voluntary sector is made up primarily of not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations that engage with social issues. Voices from the Voluntary Sector contains reasoned reflections by practitioners on some of the significant challenges faced by today's not-for-profit organizations in Canada....
Home in the City
Urban Aboriginal Housing and Living Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
During the past several decades, the Aboriginal population of Canada has become so urbanized that today, the majority of First Nations and Métis people live in cities. Home in the City provides an in-depth analysis of urban Aboriginal housing, living conditions, issues, and trends. Based on extensive...
The Donut
A Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2008
In Canada, the donut is often thought of as the unofficial national food. Donuts are sold at every intersection and rest stop, celebrated in song and story as symbols of Canadian identity, and one chain in particular, Tim Horton's, has become a veritable icon with over 2500 shops across the country....
Power Switch
Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2003
In the energy sector of Canadian economic and political life, power has a double meaning. It is quintessentially about the generation of power and physical energy. However, it is also about political power, the energy of the economy, and thus the overall governance of Canada. Power Switch offers a...
Global Health Governance
International Law and Public Health in a Divided World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Globalization has immersed all of humanity in a single germ pool. There are no health sanctuaries in a globalizing world. In Global Health Governance, Obijiofor Aginam explores the relevance of international law in contemporary public health diplomacy. He focuses on the concept of mutual vulnerability...
Harm Reduction
A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Since the First International Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm, held in 1990, the term 'harm reduction' has gained wide currency in the areas of public health and drug policy. Previously the field was characterized by heated struggle between prohibition and legalization of addictive...
Critical Digital Studies
A Reader, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Since its initial publication, Critical Digital Studies has proven an indispensable guide to understanding digitally mediated culture. Bringing together the leading scholars in this growing field, internationally renowned scholars Arthur and Marilouise Kroker present an innovative and interdisciplinary...
The Dangers of Nuclear War
A Pugwash Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
This collection of studies is one of the most lucid and sober analyses of the dangers of nuclear war, which mankind is facing. Written by natural and social scientists, the book should be read both by statesmen and by the general public. Looking towards the end of the century it makes clear the growing...
by Lindsay DuBois
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
The Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983 set out to transform Argentine society. Employing every means at its disposal - including rampant violation of human rights, union busting, and regressive economic policies - the dictatorship aimed to create its own kind of order. Lindsay DuBois's The Politics...
by Clarence Barber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
This study falls into two parts. Part I contains a theoretical analysis of the relation of inventories and inventory fluctuations to the business cycle. It begins with a brief survey of the treatment of inventories in the literature of business cycles. Then a theoretical model of the economic system...
by N.C. Bonsor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
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...
Private Profits versus Public Policy
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State
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,...