Religious philosopher George Grant's angry 1965 book Lament for a Nation, which denounced Pearson's economically and culturally liberal policies and called for a return to Diefenbaker's closed and British Canada, became an unlikely ...
After a heated year of debate, Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty announced in September 2005 that “there will be no sharia law in Canada,” and drew a sharp line between church and state by stripping all faith-based arbitrations of their ...
24 Alan Gilbert, “On the Mystery of Capital and the Myths of Hernando de Soto: What Difference Does Legal Title Make? ... 27 R. Home and H. Lim, Demystifying the Mystery of Capital: Land Tenure and Poverty in Africa and the Caribbean ...
A social critique of current urban migrations traces a transition from agricultural focus to city life, profiling examples from various international cultures while covering such issues as poverty and religious fundamentalism.
"Award-winning author and Globe and Mail feature columnist Doug Saunders argues we need 100 million Canadians if we're to outgrow our colonial past and build a safer, greener, more prosperous future.
From villages in China, India, Bangladesh and Poland to the international cities of the world, Doug Saunders portrays a diverse group of people as they struggle to make the transition, and in telling the story of their journeys — and the ...
The arrival city is often barely urban, in form or culture, but it should not be mistaken for a rural place. Urbanites tend to see the arrival city as a simple reproduction, within the city, of the structures and folkways of the village ...
Rather than responding to our new religious-minority neighbours with fear and resentment, this book shows us how we can make this change work to our advantage.