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  • City Politics in Canada

    Forty Years of Continuity and Change

    Edited by Martin Horak, Jack Lucas, Zack Taylor ...
    Canada’s big cities are at the forefront of social and economic change. They account for most of Canada’s population growth, they are magnets for immigrants from all parts of the world, and they have led Canada’s shift from an industrial to a post-industrial economy. Today, perhaps more than ever, Canada’s cities are the places where new policy problems, new political movements, and new demands ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Shaping the Metropolis

    Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada

    by Zack Taylor ...
    Series Book 11 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities. Suburban growth endangers sensitive ecosystems, water supplies, and food security. Existing urban infrastructure is crumbling while governments struggle to pay for new and expanded services. Can our inherited urban governance institutions and policies effectively respond to these problems ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Shaping the Metropolis

    Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada

    by Zack Taylor ...
    Series Book 11 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities. Suburban growth endangers sensitive ecosystems, water supplies, and food security. Existing urban infrastructure is crumbling while governments struggle to pay for new and expanded services. Can our inherited urban governance institutions and policies effectively respond to these problems ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • The Social Safety Net

    Canada in Decline Book One

    by Nora Loreto ...
    Series Book 1 - Canada in Decline
    **THE HILL TIMES TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2024Canada’s social safety net is fraying. Why does it feel like everything is collapsing?**Canada is at a crossroads. Social services and politics have been transformed to serve market economies, while Canadians struggle to pay rent, buy food, and find a stable job that pays well enough to cover daily costs. Everywhere we look, things are falling apart, but there ... Read more

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  • The Canadian Federal Election of 2011

    by Jon H. Pammett, Christopher Dornan ...
    The Canadian Federal Election of 2011 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters, written by leading academics, examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties the Conservatives (Faron Ellis and Peter Woolstencroft), the Liberals (Brooke Jeffrey), the New Democrats (David McGrane), the Bloc Qubcois (Eric Belanger and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Nation

    Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong

    by Alan Broadbent ...
    Canada’s cities are crippled by a lack of financial and governing clout. Their infrastructures are crumbling and their citizens are disaffected by the inability of municipal government—or any government, for that matter—to act on the issues that influence their constituents’ lives. Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada

    Beyond Grudges, Grievances, and Disunity

    by Donald Savoie ...
    Canada’s political structure runs contrary to North America’s economic geography and the north-south economic pull. Canada imported political and administrative institutions designed for a unitary state, and its political leaders have struggled to make them work since the country was founded. Because of this, many Canadians, their communities, and their regions view themselves as victims, to a ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada

    by Ricardo Acuna, Bob Barnetson, Sara Dorow, Josh Evans, Jason Foster, Joy Fraser, Trevor Harrison, Paul Kellogg, Manijeh Mannani, Gabrielle Slowey, Peter (Jay) Smith, Karen Wall ...
    Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged, with critiques of government policy falling on deaf ears and Alberta ranking behind other provinces in voter turnout. Given the province’s economic reliance on oil revenues, a symbiotic relationship ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Backwater:: Nova Scotia's Economic Decline

    by Peter Moreira ...
    This hard-hitting but fair assessment of Nova Scotia and the Maritimes will shock and surprise many Maritimers who have been conditioned to think that the east coast of Canada is one of the most livable regions in the country. Author Peter Moreira, a native Maritimer who returned home after working overseas for more than a decade, offers a straightforward analysis of why the region has fallen so ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Blue Storm

    The Rise and Fall of Jason Kenney

    Edited by Duane Bratt, Richard Sutherland, David Taras ...
    Series series Arts in Action
    In 2019, the United Conservative Party, under the leadership of Jason Kenney, unseated the New Democratic Party to form the provincial government of Alberta. A restoration of conservative power in a province that had seen the Progressive Conservatives win every election from 1971-2015, UCP quickly began to make political waves.This is the first scholarly analysis of the 2019 election and the first ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Foundations of Governance

    Municipal Government in Canada's Provinces

    Edited by Andrew Sancton, Robert A. Young ...
    Municipalities are responsible for many essential services and have become vital agents for implementing provincial policies, including those dealing with the environment, emergency planning, economic development, and land use. In Foundations of Governance, experts from each of Canada's provinces come together to assess the extent to which municipal governments have the capacity to act ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Stalled

    The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments

    Edited by Linda Trimble, Jane Arscott, Manon Tremblay ...
    Following significant increases in women’s electoral representation in the 1980s and '90s, progress has stalled. Today, there are only a few more women in Canada’s parliament and legislatures than a decade ago. What has happened to the representational gains for women and why does gender parity remain so elusive? To answer these questions, Stalled provides a detailed roadmap of women’s political ... Read more

    $31.99 USD