Governing from the Bench
The Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Role
Governing from the Bench is a comprehensive and illuminating examination of the Supreme Court of Canada that draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the inner workings of this often-misunderstood institution at the heart of Canada’s justice system.
Canadian Liberalism and the Politics of Border Control, 1867-1967
This book chronicles the first century of Canadian border control, revealing how policies have been influenced by changing perceptions of the rights of non-citizens.
Boundless Optimism
Richard McBride's British Columbia
Boundless Optimism is the definitive biography of Premier Richard McBride and a revealing portrait of British Columbia during a time of great volatility and great expectations.
Still Dying for a Living
Corporate Criminal Liability after the Westray Mine Disaster
Still Dying for a Living investigates the state’s (in)ability to develop effective legal strategies for holding corporations accountable for serious injury and death in the workplace.
Imperfect Democracies
The Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States
This timely book evaluates and compares alleged democratic deficits in Canada and the United States and proposes solutions to remedy them.
The Right to a Healthy Environment
Revitalizing Canada's Constitution
Renowned environmental lawyer David R. Boyd argues that Canada must constitutionalize environmental rights and responsibilities if it hopes to improve its environmental record.
Reasonable Accommodation
Managing Religious Diversity
Reasonable Accommodation is a collection of essays examining the meaning of reasonable accommodation of religious diversity through law and public discourse in Canada and abroad.
Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives
Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization
Documents the experience of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and intervention, and their effects on young people’s lives and social networks.
Brokering Access
Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada
Drawing together the perspectives of social scientists, journalists, and ATI advocates, Brokering Access explores the policies and practices surrounding access to information in Canada, highlighting the struggle between the public’s desire for transparency and the government’s culture of secrecy.
Social Democracy After the Cold War
The end of the Cold War was widely seen as a victory for free market capitalism. Drawing on evidence from different countries, Social Democracy After the Cold War explains the rise and fall of social democrattic governments under the reign of global finance capital.
So Near Yet So Far
The Public and Hidden Worlds of Canada–US Relations
This book provides an in-depth look at the multiple dimensions of Canada–US relations in the areas of politics, security, trade, and energy, with a particular emphasis on the period since 9/11.
The Canadian Election Studies
Assessing Four Decades of Influence
A comprehensive review of the first four decades of the Canadian Election Studies, showing how this series of surveys is important in the study not only of Canadian politics but also of comparative electoral behavior.
With Friends Like These
Entangled Nationalisms and the Canada-Quebec-France Triangle, 1944-1970
Reveals the underlying forces that shaped postwar conflict and cooperation in the Canada-Quebec-France triangle.
Union Power
Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Charts the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present.
How Canadians Communicate IV
Media and Politics
A comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing examination of media and politics in Canada.
Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Canada and the World
Can national loyalties be reconciled with larger commitments to global well-being?
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.
Alternative Media in Canada
Examines the limitations and promise of alternative media in the context of Canada’s complex media and policy environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Political Marketing in Canada
The first book-length exploration of how marketing tools and concepts are transforming elections and politics in Canada.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Offshore Petroleum Politics
Regulation and Risk in the Scotian Basin
This comprehensive study of petroleum politics in the Scotian Basin reveals the complex interplay of regulation and risk as industry, federal, and provincial authorities struggle to develop Canada's Atlantic offshore oil and gas resources.
Feminist Ethics and Social Policy
Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care
This volume addresses the theoretical and practical relationships among the feminization of migrant labour, the ethics of care, and social policy in the new global economy.
Age, Gender, and Work
Small Information Technology Firms in the New Economy
A unique examination of how age and gender inform the workplace and its culture in the new knowledge-based economy.
Orienting Canada
Race, Empire, and the Transpacific
A hard-hitting reconsideration of Canadian foreign policy, Orienting Canada meticulously documents the dynamics of race and empire in the Transpacific from the 1907 race riots to Canada’s early involvement in Vietnam.
Corporate Social Responsibility and the State
International Approaches to Forest Co-Regulation
This book provides a clear theoretical lens and practical guidance on the prospects and limits of leveraging private corporate social responsibility standards, such as forest certification, alongside government regulatory efforts to achieve more effective and adaptive sustainability solutions.
Labour at the Lakehead
Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35
This book explores the early years of leftism in Canada through the prism of ethnicity and a dynamic yet divided community in northern Ontario.