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Tells the story of how a group of largely provincial civil servants and politicians came together in the face of neoliberal hegemony to advance the national child Benefit, national children's, Agenda and Social Union Framework Agreement. This study shows how Canadian federalism was made to work and where it failed to work.

Shows how BC's successful public energy system is being supplanted by a deregulated private electrical system. This book says that the government has gone to extraordinary lengths to provide a supportive financial, environmental, legal and ownership framework to assist the growth of private energy investments in BC.

Explores the origins of twin crises (in the context of peak oil and climate change) and evaluates the various solutions being advanced. This book is useful to those seeking an introduction to the issues, as well as those looking for a greater depth of analysis.

The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients has led many poverty advocates to claim that "a war against the poor" is in progress. This book argues that people of colour are most often the casualties in the governments' desire to roll back the welfare state.

While death is an inevitable happening in our lives, the perspectives that we hold about death and dying are socially constructed. This text takes us through the issues, both social and personal, which surround death and dying in our country. It challenges us to examine our own thoughts, feelings and fears - of the death and dying phenomena.

Based on presentations made to a symposium on the Canadian Wheat Board organized by the National Farmers union held in Regina, Saskatchewan, February 24 and 25, 2006, this book helps farmers and non-farmers better understand the essential role of the CWB in the lives of western wheat producers and their communities, and the Canadian economy.

How do we make sense of poverty, globalization, violence between men and women, youth politics, barriers to Aboriginal economic development, privatization of universities, and the like? This work shows that, collectively and individually, Canadians resist these inequalities in order to resolve our social troubles and create a more just society.

When social workers arrived on the scene after the Halifax explosion it marked the beginning of the transition from a charity model of social welfare to a profession of trained and paid social workers. This work reflects on the lessons the profession of social work took from its work in rebuilding the lives of Haligonians.

The Internet poses diverse challenges to researchers. This book discusses these challenges in all their complexity. It covers issues of copyright, privacy and ethical use of Internet materials. It also analyzes contradictions between the federal Tri- Council Policy Statement and university-based research ethics boards.

Challenging traditional notions of development, the essays in this book examine community economic development strategies in a variety of contexts, for example, as a means of improving lives in northern, rural and inner-city settings.

Deals with linguistic racism and the centrality of language in the discourse of anti-racism. This work discusses how language is used and how, especially in that usage, race and racism are expressed in everyday practice. It explores the topic of change through the poetics of words and action, thereby giving voice to the possibilities of change.

Law's power to criminalize is formidable. Traditional legal doctrine argues that law dispenses justice in an impartial and unbiased fashion. Critical legal theorists claim that law reproduces gender, race and class inequalities. This text offers an analysis that acknowledges the tensions between these two views of law.

As the fisheries have dramatically changed in Newfoundland and Labrador, so has the work and learning experiences of women fish harvesters. This text explores women's lives in the restructured fishery, their workload and work responsibilities, work relations, professionalization and training.

Fred MacKinnon has been hailed as the outstanding public servant of his generation in Nova Scotia. During a 55-year career in government, he was a key figure in the formulation and reform of social policy for the province.

Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector, explores issues that have been central to her activism for many years -- sacred Mother Earth, our despoiling of Earth and the activism at Standing Rock and opposing Line 3.

An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada's engagements in the world since confederation, this book charts a unique path by locating Canada's colonial foundations at the heart of the analysis. Canada in the World begins by arguing that the colonial relations with Indigenous peoples represent the first example of foreign policy, and demonstrates how these relations became a foundational and existential element of the new state. Colonialism--the project to establish settler capitalism in North America and the ideological assumption that Europeans were more advanced and thus deserved to conquer the Indigenous people--says Shipley, lives at the very heart of Canada. Through a close examination of Canadian foreign policy, from crushing an Indigenous rebellion in El Salvador, "peacekeeping" missions in the Congo and Somalia, and Cold War interventions in Vietnam and Indonesia, to Canadian participation in the War on Terror, Canada in the World finds that this colonial heart has dictated Canada's actions in the world since the beginning. Highlighting the continuities across more than 150 years of history, Shipley demonstrates that Canadian policy and behaviour in the world is deep-rooted, and argues that changing this requires rethinking the fundamental nature of Canada itself.