Hidden Agendas
How Journalists Influence the News
A controversial study showing how the political beliefs of journalists significantly affect the ideological slant of the news, skewing it further to the left than the political stance of the average Canadian.
Training the Excluded for Work
Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.
The Integrity Gap
Canada's Environmental Policy and Institutions
This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada’s response to environmental challenges.
Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada
One of the first empirical analyses of the interaction of the media, the public, and policymakers in Canada, this book makes an important contribution to the study of political communications and policymaking well beyond the Canadian context.
Gendering Government
Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada
This comparative study examines feminist engagement with a broad range of political institutions in Australia and Canada.
First Do No Harm
Making Sense of Canadian Health Reform
Is there a crisis in Canadian health care? This book provides a concise introduction to the fundamentals of health care in Canada and examine various ideas for reforming the system sensibly.
A Trading Nation
Canadian Trade Policy from Colonialism to Globalization
This brilliantly crafted overview and analysis of the historical foundations of modern Canadian trade policy is the first survey to address the history of Canadian commercial policy in over fifty years.
The Indian Association of Alberta
A History of Political Action
Best known for its role in spearheading the protest against the infamous 1969 White Paper produced by the Department of Indian Affairs, the Indian Association of Alberta played a critical role in mobilizing First Nations peoples to political action.
Planning Canadian Regions
The first book to consolidate the history, evolution, current practice, and future prospects for regional planning in Canada.
Canada and the Beijing Conference on Women
Governmental Politics and NGO Participation
An examination of how Canada’s policies for the Fourth World Conference on Women were formulated.
Diplomatic Departures
The Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984 - 93
The first major scholarly examination of the foreign policy of the Mulroney Conservative era, this collection analyzes free trade with the U.S., a continentalized energy policy, the transformation of peacekeeping into peacemaking, and other departures from traditional Canadian statecraft.
Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy
This collection brings together a wide range of authoritative, informed perspectives on issues of ethics and security facing Canadians, linking abstract analytical and philosophical questions to the critical and challenging questions of decision-making practice in Canadian foreign policy.
The Politics of Resentment
British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity
The first book to examine the role that British Columbia has played in the evolving Canadian unity debate.
Citizens Plus
Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State
Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state.