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Watching Quebec

Ramsay Cook is professor emeritus of history, York University, and general editor, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

The Laws of Government

The Laws of Government is a comprehensive legal treatise on the law of Canadian democracy. This book is a one-stop-shop for an area of law and policy that is emerging quickly. In the past year alone, Parliament ...

The Most Dangerous Branch

Robert Ivan Martin is professor of law, the University of Western Ontario and the co-author of A Sourcebook of Canadian Media Law.

Canada: The State of the Federation 2001

Arguably, political changes in Canada have been greater in the 1990s than in any other decade since Confederation, but do these changes signify a shift in Canadian political culture? Can we even speak ...

The Dream of Nation

Essential reading for an understanding of contemporary Quebec, The Dream of Nation traces the changing nature of various "dreams of nation," from the imperial dream of New France to the separatist dream ...

René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power

By (author) Graham Fraser
Categories: History of the Americas

Nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for Non-Fiction, René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power has been described as the classic work on one of the most important periods in recent Quebec ...

The Supreme Court on Trial

By (author) Kent Roach
Categories: Legal systems: judicial powers

The Supreme Court of Canada has been accused of allowing criminals to go free; of permitting tobacco companies to advertise; of being too sympathetic to Aboriginal people; and of usurping democracy on ...

The Politics of Resentment

Philip Resnick explores what makes B. C. stand apart as a region of
Canada. He looks at the views of politicians, opinion-makers, and
ordinary British Columbians on the challenges posed by Quebec
nationalism, ...

The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec

French settlers distanced the indigenous people and flora and fauna to create a landscape that by the mid-eighteenth century had become recognizably European. British industrialists and landowners attempted ...