From the École Polytechnique shootings of 1989 to the political controversy surrounding the elimination of the federal long-gun registry, the issue of gun control has been a subject of fierce debate ...

Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines countries where social democracy has long been an influential political force—Sweden, Germany, Britain, ...

Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles, the New Warriors, are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada’s central ...

Over the past thirty years, the fundamental character of political discourse has been transformed. As the influence of on-the-spot TV coverage and opinion programs grew, print media—newspapers especially—began ...

Search For A Nation is an unique resource which explores 10 major crises in French- English Relations from 1759 to 1995. The third edition adds the constitutional crisis from 1982 to 1992, culminating ...

In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with arbitrary state violence on a scale never before seen in Canada. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials from the ...

Canada shared a rich, multi-faceted history with China long before it recognized the People’s Republic of China in 1970. John Meehan brings to light the activities of early Canadian missionaries, business ...

In the years immediately following the First World War and the 1917 Russian Revolution, many of those on the British Left were tempted, to a greater or lesser degree, by what Ian Bullock calls the “myth” ...

This book is unlike any other. Poverty in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This volume considers a range ...

Examining various cultural products?music, cartoons, travel guides, ideographic treaties, film, and especially the literary arts?the contributors of these thirteen essays invite readers to conceptualize ...