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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
In The Handbook of Canadian Higher Education Law, experts examine key legal issues in postsecondary education. Establishing the current governance arrangements for Canadian postsecondary education within a historical context, the editors provide a detailed look at the legislative framework of postsecondary...
International Perspectives
Integration and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The international trend towards migration is growing rapidly and becoming increasingly complex. As the first-wave generation of migrants ages, their children and even grandchildren are reaching adulthood having spent their entire lives in the countries their families chose long ago. International...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
In recent decades, the conduct of international relations among and within states has been very considerably altered. Today, the content of these relations relies as much on international professional and civil society networks as it does on state-to-state transactions. The role of the Internet has...
Tug of War
Negotiating Security in Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Conflicts in Eurasia have been receiving significant attention in the last few years from political scientists and international relations scholars. The geographic area of Eurasia lies at the intersection of global and regional conflicts and coordination games. On the one hand, regional controversies...
Paradigm Freeze
Why It Is So Hard to Reform Health Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Why has health care reform proved a stumbling block for provincial governments across Canada? What efforts have been made to improve a struggling system, and how have they succeeded or failed? In Paradigm Freeze, experts in the field answer these fundamental questions by examining and comparing six essential...
Canada: The State of the Federation, 2012
Regions, Resources, and Resiliency
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Regional resource disparities and the tensions they generate are a perennial Canadian topic. This edition of Canada: The State of the Federation presents essays on regions, resources, and the resiliency of the Canadian federal system. Contributors consider questions such as: to what extent do Canada’s...
Without Walls or Barriers
The Speeches of Premier David Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In June 1985, David Peterson was sworn in as the leader of Ontario’s first Liberal government in forty-two years. This collection of speeches explores the activist agenda the London, Ontario, lawyer pursued through his premiership, which sought to ensure all Ontarians were able to participate fully...
Canada: The State of the Federation 2015
Canadian Federalism and Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Renewing and expanding national infrastructure is critical to the wellbeing and productivity of Canadians and is one of the foremost challenges confronting our federal, provincial and municipal governments. Not only are the required investments dauntingly large for all three levels of government,...
Elusive Pursuits
Lessons From Canada’s Interventions Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Canada has been almost continuously involved in major international peace and security enforcement operations since the early 1990s, as part of multilateral efforts to stop wars, monitor peace, avert genocide, promote development or, occasionally, to topple dictators and even win wars. It has deployed...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
Until the 1990s social policy played an integrative role in Canada, providing a counter-narrative to claims that federalism and diversity undermine the potential of social policy. Today, however, the Canadian model is under strain, reflecting changes in both the welfare state and the immigration-citizenship-multiculturalism...
Identities, Trust, and Cohesion in Federal Systems
Public Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
To what extent do federal systems promote multiple identities and attachments? How do their identities affect the trust that is assigned to various orders of government and contribute to cohesion in federalist systems? Do cohesive federations depend on public trust and strong attachment to the national...
Multiculturalism Question
Debating Identity in 21st Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Canada's policy of multiculturalism has been the object of ongoing debate since it was first introduced in 1971. Decades later, Canadians still seem uncertain about the meaning of multiculturalism. Detractors insist that government has not succeeded in discouraging immigrants and their descendants from...
Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
"It's not your money - it belongs to the people." Taking this simple axiom seriously creates unique challenges for the management of public funds. Andrew Graham outlines all aspects of public sector financial management, addressing how funds are obtained, what rules of accountability and...
Minding the Gap
African Conflict Management in a Time of Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The prevailing narrative on Africa is that it is awash with violent conflict. Indeed, it does suffer from a multitude of conflicts — from border skirmishes to civil wars to terrorist attacks. Conflicts in Africa are diverse and complex, but there have been a number of cases of successful conflict management...