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 investigates the state’s (in)ability to develop effective legal strategies for holding corporations accountable for serious injury and death in the workplace.

This timely book evaluates and compares alleged democratic deficits in Canada and the United States and proposes solutions to remedy them.

The first book to examine the burgeoning trend of buying up huge swaths of farmland abroad in all its complexity, considering the implications for investors, host countries, and the world as a whole.

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 is a collection of essays examining the meaning of reasonable accommodation of religious diversity through law and public discourse in Canada and abroad.

This book goes beyond theory to give real-world examples of how better planning can level inequities.

Documents the experience of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and intervention, and their effects on young people’s lives and social networks.

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.

Stewardship of the Built Environment shows how rehabilitating and reusing existing structures holds untapped potential for achieving sustainable communities.

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.

In detailing the complexities of buying fighter aircrafts for the RCAF in the early years of the Cold War, Wakelam also sheds light on contemporary procurement issues.

This book examines the explosive growth of the CIO in Canada during the Second World War, showing how cultural as well as economic forces were at work in the gritty work of union organizing.

An innovative assessment of the extent to which international judicial bodies influence domestic law and policy arrangements.

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.

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.

Climate and Conservation offers readers tangible, place-based examples of projects designed to protect large landscapes as a means of conserving biodiversity in the face of the looming threat of global climate change.

Reveals the underlying forces that shaped postwar conflict and cooperation in the Canada-Quebec-France triangle.

A multifaceted exploration of how humanitarian organizations, private militaries, and non-state armed groups are shaking the foundations of international humanitarian law.

Charts the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present.

A comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing examination of media and politics in Canada.

Can national loyalties be reconciled with larger commitments to global well-being?

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.

Examines the limitations and promise of alternative media in the context of Canada’s complex media and policy environment.

A collection of empirical studies and critical essays, Islam in the Hinterlands examines how politics, media, and education shape Muslim life in Canada.

A fascinating history that challenges common assumptions of how the Ontario government attempted to regulate licensed public drinking after the repeal of prohibition.

A doctor’s eye view of the determinants of health and frontline stories of patient experiences.

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.

Brings to the light the conflicting meanings attached to skiing by diverse groups in British Columbia.

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.

The Mediterranean, a region of uneven globalization, offers clues to understanding the future of democracy in North Africa and the Near East.

Give Me Shelter is a revealing examination of Canada’s efforts to prepare its citizens to face nuclear war, from 1945-63.

An extensive examination of the significant Nisga’a Final Agreement and the effect on Aboriginal and government relations.

A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.

The first book-length exploration of how marketing tools and concepts are transforming elections and politics in Canada.

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.

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.

A history of one union local after World War II and its impact on the daily working-class experience.

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.

Hereditary chief Umeek weaves together Nuu-chah-nulth and Western worldviews to revitalize contemporary approaches to the environment and the plight of indigenous peoples.

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.

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.

Focusing on a century of Canadian initiatives in Shanghai, this book offers unprecedented insight into early Sino-Canadian relations.

Caroline Dick asks how group identity claims, especially in the courts, obscure significant intragroup differences.

This volume furthers the multiculturalism debate by assessing whether public institutions are capable of evaluating minority group claims fairly.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This volume challenges conventional approaches to the study of nationalism in the context of its violent resurgence.