National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation
By Rachel Ariey-Jouglard — October 7th, 2008
What is a nation exactly? A theoretical look at the concept of nation in Quebec.
Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
From Nelson to Castlegar on Steel
By Scott — April 21st, 2008
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Left Side of the Story: Labour, Welfare, and Workplace
By Cultural Shifts and Berrak Kabasakal — April 10th, 2008
The fourth panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
From Disabled to Dispossessed: CPP Disability Benefits and the Decline of Social Citizenship
By Mary Rita Holland — April 10th, 2008
What were formerly considered ‘entitlements’ of highly vulnerable citizens are increasingly viewed as charity
Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’
By Matthew Nelson — April 10th, 2008
Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’: Labour’s Contradictory Role in the Upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
As Vancouver prepares for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2010, the bid process has dominated urban discourse with its aim to transform Vancouver into a ‘world-class,’ competitive global-city. This …
From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy
By Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen — April 1st, 2008
Panel 3: From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy
Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
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Michael A. Lithgow, Mass Communication
Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada
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Michelle Barrett, Political Economy
National Identity Examined: …
Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada
By Michelle Barrett — April 1st, 2008
My thesis research looks at how ‘animal welfare’ as an idea or a goal is framed through the process of developing public policy and regulation in Canada. As a case study, I am looking at the current proposed amendments to the Health of Animals Regulations, …
Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
By Michael Lithgow — April 1st, 2008
The over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of …
National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation
By Rachel Ariey-Jouglard — April 1st, 2008
In today’s political life, nations are unquestionably legitimate. The nation is immutable, it has always existed and its members must impede its violation and ensure its future existence by putting it at the top of their priorities. Using critical geography theories, this paper questions the …
A Prosperous Uncertainty: The Canada Border Services Agency, risk management, and the not-so-new political imagination of spatially-bound identity
By Christopher Alderson — April 1st, 2008
The creation of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in 2003 marks an attempt to integrate all of Canada’s various border-controlling agencies and acts under one enforcement organization; it’s function is to provide “integrated border services that support national security and public safety priorities and …
North American Integration and Copyright Policy: The Case of Canada
By Blayne Haggart — March 18th, 2008
Regional integration is a political process, embedded in a network of domestic, global and regional treaties, institutions, organizations and politics. Copyright policy provides an ideal lens through which to examine the distinctive development of North American integration. Like regional integration, copyright policy, which is moving …
An inquiry into factors influencing Canadian policies related to pharmaceutical patents
By Jason Wenczler — March 18th, 2008
My current research studies the primary factors influencing the federal government’s decision-making with respect to pharmaceutical policy during the past decade. I am particularly interested in learning about how the nature of the state-its role and structure-and the state’s relationship with big business has shaped …
Canada adds U.S. to torture watch list
By Lamont — January 18th, 2008
CTV is reporting that the Canadian government has added the United States to the list of countries that use torture as an interrogation technique. Canada added the US to the list, which also includes Iran and Syria, after the whole debacle with the extraordinary …
One World
By Peru — December 15th, 2007
One World
By Peru
I was invited to a group show in Vienna. My idea was against the theme, “Canada VS Spain”, by having a map of Pangea when they were both (and all others) the same place. There is too …
Bad News, Local to Global
By Lamont — December 10th, 2007
Well, I’m not sure if you’d call it bad news, but Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien was charged today with attempted bribery during his 2006 electoral campaign. O’Brien beat out Alex Munter during that election over the issue of tax freezing, though that …
