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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 …



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 …



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 …



Money, Debt and the Subprime Crisis

By Cultural Shifts — January 27th, 2008
There is a short animated documentary called Money as Debt worth checking out. The video, which goes through a brief history of monetary and banking systems, raises a number of questions that relate to the US subprime crisis, not to mention the global financial …



Making the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility

By David Cavett-Goodwin — December 3rd, 2007
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a major buzzword within academic circles, politics, activist groups, and the business community. There are many definitions of CSR which emphasize different areas, but the most contemporary and most applicable to the majority cases, is defined by the World Bank …



Fair Trade and Global Justice: The Case of Bananas in St. Vincent

By Anna Torgerson — November 30th, 2007
Fair trade is a response to the instability of international commodity markets and to problems of monocultural production.