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Let Right Be Done

In 1973 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark decision in the Calder case, confirming that Aboriginal title constituted a right within Canadian law. Let Right Be Done examines the doctrine of Aboriginal ...

Reaction and Resistance

In this timely volume, contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy – child custody, child poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual ...

Power Struggles

Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and Inuit and the hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba, ...

Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom

By (author) Donald Savoie
Categories: Political Science

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 ...

Mission of Folly

MISSION OF FOLLY is a candid report on Canada?s participation in America?s ?War onTerror? in Afghanistan. Laxer explores the policy vacuum that resulted in Canadian troopsbeing sent to fight a war that ...

Some Like It Cold

By (author) Robert C. Paehlke
Categories: Climate change

Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada’s climate change debate. Focusing on the past responses of both Liberal and Conservative governments to the looming crisis, ranging ...

The World in Canada

By (author) David Carment & David Bercuson
Categories: Political Science

David Carment is professor of international affairs, Carleton University.

David Bercuson is director, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary.

Guarding the Gates

By (author) David Goutor
Categories: Social and cultural history

From the 1870s until the Great Depression, immigration was often the question of the hour in Canada. Politicians, the media, and an array of interest groups viewed it as essential to nation building, ...

The Triumph of Citizenship

Patricia E. Roy examines the climax of antipathy to Asians in Canada: the removal of all Japanese Canadians from the BC coast in 1942. Canada ignored the rights of Japanese Canadians and placed strict ...

Canada and the United States

This thoroughly revised edition of Canada and the United States: Differences that Count continues to address, in a timely way, key institutions and policy areas, adding new chapters on welfare, race and ...