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The Marshall Decision and Native Rights

In The Marshall Decision and Native Rights Ken Coates explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the recent Supreme Court decision on the Donald Marshall case. He describes the ...

Negotiating NAFTA

International negotiations have become an important feature of the world trading system, but very few scholars have attempted to analyse this process. Using case studies in four areas - culture, textiles ...

A Polity on the Edge

Winner: 2001 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award

This is a book about forces challenging the continued integrity of Canada, one of the world’s oldest and most admired democracies. It focuses on six ...

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, ...

Canadian Communication Thought

By (author) Robert Babe
Categories: Political science and theory

Canada has a rich heritage of English-language communication thought. For the first time "Canadian Communication Thought" assembles much of this erudition by introducing and examining the writings of ...

Citizens and Nation

Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today’s families rely on television ...

Dark Side of the Nation

By (author) Himani Bannerji
Categories: Sociology

These feminist Marxist and anti-racist essays speak to important current political issues. Though they begin from experiences of non-white people living in Canada, they provide a critical theoretical ...

Pepper in Our Eyes

In November 1997, the world media converged on Vancouver to cover the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The major news story that
emerged, however, had little to do with the crisis unfolding in ...

The Charter Revolution and the Court Party

The Charter of Rights has transformed Canadian politics. The Supreme Court has used the Charter to change government policy on an ever-expanding list of controversial issues—abortion, aboriginal rights, ...