Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests
Tenure, Stumpage Fees, and Forest Practices
This book compares provincial forest policies on public land across Canada, and considers how they may hinder or enhance the pursuit of sustainable forest management objectives.
Voluntary Sector Organizations and the State
Building New Relations
This book traces developments in the voluntary sector in Canada since the early 1990s, offering an up-to-date portrait of the federal government’s evolving relationship with voluntary organizations.
Romancing the Revolution
The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left
This revealing history examines the impact of the myth of Soviet democracy: the belief that Russia was embarking on a brave experiment in a form of popular government more genuine and advanced than even the best forms of parliamentarism.
Identity Politics in the Public Realm
Bringing Institutions Back In
This volume furthers the multiculturalism debate by assessing whether public institutions are capable of evaluating minority group claims fairly.
The Perils of Identity
Group Rights and the Politics of Intragroup Difference
Caroline Dick asks how group identity claims, especially in the courts, obscure significant intragroup differences.
Chasing the Dragon in Shanghai
Canada’s Early Relations with China, 1858-1952
Focusing on a century of Canadian initiatives in Shanghai, this book offers unprecedented insight into early Sino-Canadian relations.
Elusive Destiny
The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner
This definitive biography of a major Canadian political figure provides a new perspective on federal politics from the 1960s through the 1980s and gives John Turner his rightful place in Canadian history.
Ghost Dancing with Colonialism
Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada
Drawing on history, international law, and recent decision-making in the Supreme Court, this book seeks the truth behind allegations that Canadian law continues to colonize Indigenous peoples.
Principles of Tsawalk
An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis
Hereditary chief Umeek weaves together Nuu-chah-nulth and Western worldviews to revitalize contemporary approaches to the environment and the plight of indigenous peoples.
Conflict in Caledonia
Aboriginal Land Rights and the Rule of Law
A powerful account of how land disputes reflect complex and often competing understandings of law, landscape, and identity among First Nations and non-Aboriginal people in Canada.
City Rules
How Regulations Affect Urban Form
City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities.
Blue-Green Province
The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario
Blue-Green Province provides the first comprehensive study of environmental policy in Ontario and explores what lessons on the future of environmental and economic policy in Canada might be learned from this province’s experience.
Political Marketing in Canada
The first book-length exploration of how marketing tools and concepts are transforming elections and politics in Canada.
Working People in Alberta
A History
A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
Postcolonial Sovereignty?
The Nisga’a Final Agreement
An extensive examination of the significant Nisga’a Final Agreement and the effect on Aboriginal and government relations.
Give Me Shelter
The Failure of Canada’s Cold War Civil Defence
Give Me Shelter is a revealing examination of Canada’s efforts to prepare its citizens to face nuclear war, from 1945-63.
Two Mediterranean Worlds
Diverging Paths of Globalization and Autonomy
The Mediterranean, a region of uneven globalization, offers clues to understanding the future of democracy in North Africa and the Near East.
Vital Signs 2012
The Trends that are Shaping Our Future
From obesity to ecosystem services, from grain production to nuclear power, this book offers the sometimes-shocking facts that need to guide our stewardship of the Earth’s resources.
Making Meaning Out of Mountains
The Political Ecology of Skiing
Brings to the light the conflicting meanings attached to skiing by diverse groups in British Columbia.
Constituency Influence in Parliament
Countering the Centre
This book examines the rules and conduct of Private Members’ Business to assess the crucial role of MPs in representing citizens and affecting policy decisions.
A Healthy Society
How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy
A doctor’s eye view of the determinants of health and frontline stories of patient experiences.
Try to Control Yourself
The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927-44
A fascinating history that challenges common assumptions of how the Ontario government attempted to regulate licensed public drinking after the repeal of prohibition.
Islam in the Hinterlands
Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada
A collection of empirical studies and critical essays, Islam in the Hinterlands examines how politics, media, and education shape Muslim life in Canada.
Alternative Media in Canada
Examines the limitations and promise of alternative media in the context of Canada’s complex media and policy environment.
Becoming Multicultural
Immigration and the Politics of Membership in Canada and Germany
This book demonstrates how global human rights norms intersected with domestic political identities and institutions to transform Canada and Germany into diverse multicultural societies in the second half of the twentieth century.
Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Canada and the World
Can national loyalties be reconciled with larger commitments to global well-being?
How Canadians Communicate IV
Media and Politics
A comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing examination of media and politics in Canada.
Union Power
Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Charts the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Modern Warfare
Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law
A multifaceted exploration of how humanitarian organizations, private militaries, and non-state armed groups are shaking the foundations of international humanitarian law.