Canadian Maverick
Title | Canadian Maverick PDF eBook |
Author | William Kaplan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2009-10-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Rand's 1943 appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada invigorated what was then a pedestrian institution. His work in labour law, including his development of the Rand Formula, and his key judgments in civil liberties cases inspired a generation of Canadian judges, lawyers, and law students.
Power, Politics, and Principles
Title | Power, Politics, and Principles PDF eBook |
Author | Taylor Hollander |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2018-06-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1487515146 |
Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of the policy-making process, revealing how the making of P.C. 1003 in 1944, a wartime order that forced employers to the collective bargaining table, involved real people with conflicting personalities and competing agendas. Each chapter of Power, Politics, and Principles begins with a quasi-fictional vignette to help the reader visualize historical context. Hollander pays particular attention to the central role that Mackenzie King played in the creation of P.C. 1003. Although most scholars describe the Prime Minister’s approach to policy decisions as calculating and opportunistic, Power, Politics, and Principles argues that Mackenzie King’s adherence to moderate principles resulted in a less hostile legal environment in Canada for workers and their unions in the long run, than a more far-reaching collective bargaining law in the United States.
The Canadian Home
Title | The Canadian Home PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Denhez |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1994-09 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1550022024 |
This book details how housing developed in Canada and includes revealing Canadian Home Builders Association records.
Canada's Best Features
Title | Canada's Best Features PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene P. Walz |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9789042012097 |
Long recognized for outstanding National Film Board documentaries and innovative animated movies, Canada has recently emerged from the considerable shadow of the Hollywood elephant with a series of feature films that have captured the attention of audiences around the world. This is the first anthology to focus on Canada's feature films - those acknowledged as its very best. With essays by senior academics and leading scholars from across the country as well as some fresh new voices, Canada's Best Features offers penetrating analyses of fifteen award-winning films. Internationally acclaimed directors David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Denys Arcand, and Claude Jutra are represented here. Noteworthy films include Mon oncle Antoine, often cited as Canada's number one film of all time, such Cannes Festival favourites as Le déclin de l'empire américain and Exotica, and cult films Careful by Guy Maddin and Masala by Srinivas Krishna. The essays offer the latest word on these films and filmmakers, done from a variety of perspectives. Some of the films have never been examined in-depth before. Complete filmographies and bibliographies accompany each essay. A contextualizing introduction by Professor Gene Walz provides the necessary overview. An annotated bibliography of books on the Canadian film industry completes this impressive package.
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey
Title | The African Canadian Legal Odyssey PDF eBook |
Author | Barrington Walker |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 639 |
Release | 2012-11-13 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1442666811 |
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century. ;This collection demonstrates that the social history of Blacks in Canada has always been inextricably bound to questi52.99ons of law, and that the role of the law in shaping Black life was often ambiguous and shifted over time. Comprised of eleven engaging chapters, organized both thematically and chronologically, it includes a substantive introduction that provides a synthesis and overview of this complex history. This outstanding collection will appeal to both advanced specialists and undergraduate students and makes an important contribution to an emerging field of scholarly inquiry.
The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent
Title | The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent PDF eBook |
Author | Patrice Dutil |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 541 |
Release | 2020-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0774864052 |
Much of Canada’s modern identity emerged from the innovative social policies and ambitious foreign policy of Louis St-Laurent’s Liberal government. His extraordinarily creative administration made decisions that still resonate today: on health care, pensions, and housing; on infrastructure and intergovernmental issues; and, further afield, in developing Canada’s global middle-power role in global affairs and resolving the Suez Crisis. Yet St-Laurent remains an enigmatic figure. The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent fills a great void in Canadian political history, bringing together well-established and new scholars to investigate the far-reaching influence of a politician whose astute policies and bold resolve moved Canada into the modern era.
Ruin and Redemption
Title | Ruin and Redemption PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas G. W. Telfer |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0802093434 |