Continentalizing Canadian telecommunications

the politics of regulatory reform

In Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications Vanda Rideout examines active political resistance to the radical, neo-liberal transformation of Canadian telecommunications that has been orchestrated by the federal government, big business, and their powerful lobbyists over the last two decades. Rideout focuses on the protection of the public ...

The 2003 Federal Budget

Conflicting tensions

Making public transport work

People have always traveled, but over the last century there has been an unprecedented increase in mobility. Hundreds of millions commute daily between home and work, relying more and more on cars and less on urban and intercity public transport. Faced with environmental concerns and ...

Federalism and labour market policy

comparing different governance and employment strategies

The fate of the nation state

Are Nation-states obsolete? Are multination states viable? Can we really create powerful supranational institutions? These are the questions that celebrated authors and specialists attempt to answer in this important collection of articles. The work contains theoretical essays and case studies by philosophers, sociologists, political scientists ...

With skilful hand

the story of King David

Hot money and the politics of debt

Explains the origins of a pool of hot and homeless money, its uses and abuses and how the world of high finance, corporate and governmental, became hostage to it A ball of hot money rolls around the world. It seeks anonymity and political refuge. It ...

Entrepreneurship and community economic developement

Reforming Parlamentary Democracy

Protéger la Démocratie Canadienne

Le Senat en vérité...

Le Sénat du Canada a souvent fait l'objet de controverse et de projets de réforme ces dernieres années. Protéger la démocratie canadienne : le Sénat, en vérité ... jette un nouveau regard sur l'histoire, le rale et l'évolution du Sénat, le situe dans le ...

The lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII

the Roman Catholic Church and the division of Europe, 1943-1950

Charter conflicts

What is Parliament's Role?

The first comprehensive examination of how the Charter influences political choices on social policy. Although the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is twenty years old, little is known about how it affects those who wield power, what influence it has on legislative decisions, or ...

Handbook of Federal Countries, 2002

Determining boundaries in a conflicted world

the role of Uti Possidetis

Handbook of Federal Countries 2002

Forum of Federations.

The myth of the sacred

the charter, the courts, and the politics of the Constitution in Canada

Framing financial structure in an information environment

A social history of the cloister

daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime

In The Social History of the Cloister Elizabeth Rapley goes beyond the monastic rulebooks, legal and notarial records, and memoirs of famous women who passed through monastery doors to the chronicles, letters, and other little-known writings produced by nuns for and about themselves. Working from ...

God's assassins

State terrorism in Argentina in the 1970s

In the words of both the perpetrators of terrorism and their victims, God's Assassins explores what happens when a state turns on its citizens. Between 1976 and 1983 an estimated 30,000 Argentines "disappeared" under the military junta. Most were imprisoned and tortured before ...