Roy Rempel, senior policy advisor, Breakout Educational Network, is the author of Counterweights: The Failure of Canada’s German and European Policy, 1955-1995 and Chatter Box: An Insider’s Account ...

No other Canadian book provides such an accessible yet thorough and objective account of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The text has been thoroughly updated to reflect Charter jurisprudence ...

Australia and Canada have each sought international reputations as humanitarian do-gooders, especially in the area of refugee admissions. This book traces the connections between the nation-building tradition ...

The last fifty years have witnessed the development of a global system of human rights promotion and protection. Canada has played a significant role in its growth and will likely continue to do so. Yet ...

Are the world’s oldest democracies failing? For most of the past fifty years democratic governments made determined and successful efforts at overcoming the significant inequalities that are the by-product ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

In this first-ever insider account of the American Embassy takeover in 1979, Massoumeh Ebtekar sets out to correct 20 years of misrepresentation by the Western media of what the aims of the Iranian students ...