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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, ...

Feminists and Party Politics

By (author) Lisa Young
Categories: Politics and government

In Feminists and Party Politics, the author examines the
effort to bring feminism into the formal political arena through
established political parties in Canada and the United States.

Two major sets ...

A Sense of Their Duty

Industrial change, the expansion of government at all levels, and population growth all contributed to profound alterations in Ontario’s social structure between the 1850s and the 1890s. The changing ...

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 ...

Invisible and Inaudible in Washington

Edelgard Mahant and Graeme Mount examine details of White House policy
from 1945 to the 1980s to assess the extent to which the United States
could be said to have had a Canada policy. They challenge ...

Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way

Focusing on four individuals, Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way describes the lives and ideas of Ernest Winch, Bill Pritchard, Bob Russell, and Arthur Mould and examines their efforts to ...