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Posts Tagged ‘policy’


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



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 (view abstract) Michael A. Lithgow, Mass Communication Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada (view abstract) 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, …



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 …



IP Rights and New Technologies: Pills, Pirates & Sex Dolls

By Cultural Shifts and Eliot Che — March 18th, 2008
Comments on the first panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.



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 …



From Guerillas to Gangsters: Neoliberalism, Transnationalism, and the Rise of Mara Salvatrucha

By Matthew Lymburner — February 27th, 2008
Contemporary security discourse emphasizing “terrorism” has displaced the focus on the “gang epidemic” that prevailed in the latter decades of the twentieth century. However, since 2005, law enforcement agencies and media organizations have sparked a renewed interest in gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), dubbed …