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Canada’s Labour Market Training System
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and ...
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K9 Teams
Beyond the Basics of Search and Rescue and Recovery
A professional development masterclass for K9 detection teams and people who work with them. It has been said that about the only thing two K9 handlers agree about is what a third handler is doing ...
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Small Cities, Big Issues
Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era
Small Canadian cities confront serious social issues as a result of the neoliberal economic restructuring practiced by both federal and provincial governments since the 1980s. Drastic spending redu...
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No Straight Lines
Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities
Small cities face intricate challenges. No Straight Lines provides the basis for a refined model of community engaged leadership and research designed to realize equality of quality of life. With...
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25 mythes à déboulonner en politique québécoise
Si les États-Unis ont leur "fake news", signe d'un pays divisé où on a du mal à trouver le sens du compromis et le centre politique, au Québec, ce sont plutôt nos "mythes" dans les domaines identit...
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Defying Expectations
The Case of UFCW Local 401
In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a...
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Public Deliberation on Climate Change
Lessons from Alberta Climate Dialogue
There exists in both academic and political circles a growing interest in public deliberation as an alternative to the sometimes adversarial and polarizing public engagement activities that result ...
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China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada
China’s Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is an in-depth studies of China’s increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and th...
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Under Siege
The Independent Labour Party in Interwar Britain
During the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) was the main voice of radical democratic socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had, since 1906, opera...
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Trop tard
La fin d'un monde et le début d'un nouveau
Il est trop tard pour préserver la vie telle que nous la connaissons. Trop tard aussi pour le développement durable. C’est le constat implacable que dresse Harvey L. Mead, vétéran de la scène envir...
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Children of the Broken Treaty
Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream (New Edition)
In this new edition of Charlie Angus's award-winning and bestselling book, he brings us up-to-date on the unrelenting epidemic of youth suicides in Indigenous communities, the Thunder Bay inquiry i...
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Dire non ne suffit plus
Contre la stratégie du choc de Trump
« Le “non” le plus ferme doit s’accompagner d’un “oui” courageux. » Aussi insensé et dangereux soit-il, Donald Trump, 45e président des États-Unis, n’est pas un extraterrestre débarqué tout droit ...
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The Hard Work of Hope
Climate Change in the Age of Trump
The Climate Nexus (RMB, 2015) analyzed and explored the economic and social realities facing water, food, energy and biodiversity. The Hard Work of Hope continues this narrative and seeks to develo...
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Carbon Play
The Candid Observations of a Carbon Pioneer
An insider’s look at the complex, inspiring and surprisingly entertaining world of international negotiations, technology and diplomacy relating to the carbon industry, environmental management and...
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L'optimisme contre le désespoir
Entretiens avec C.J. Polychroniou
Dans cette série d’entretiens menés avec celui que l'on associe volontiers à la «conscience morale» des Américains, celui-ci s’exprime sur des sujets qui sont emblématiques de l’inquiétante époque ...
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Beyond "Understanding Canada"
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers...
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À nous la ville!
Traité de municipalisme
Les villes peuvent-elles changer le monde ? Considérées comme les espaces où se joueront en grande partie les luttes politiques du XXIe siècle, les villes tardent pourtant à susciter l’attention qu...
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De quoi Total est-elle la somme?
Multinationales et perversion du droit
COMPLOTER, COLONISER, COLLABORER, CORROMPRE, CONQUERIR, DÉLOCALISER, PRESSURER, POLLUER, VASSALISER, NIER, ASSERVIR, RÉGIR: autant de moyens employés par les multinationales pour faire et défaire l...
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A River Captured
A River Captured explores the controversial history of the Columbia River Treaty and its impact on the ecosystems, indigenous peoples, contemporary culture, provincial politics and recent history o...
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North America in the Anthropocene
Robert William Sandford’s latest RMB manifesto invites the reader to separate the hype from the hope with respect to the outcomes of the 2015 Paris climate conference and in relation to humanity’s ...
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Border Flows
Declining access to fresh water is one of the twenty-first century’s most pressing environmental and human rights challenges, yet the struggle for water is not a new cause. The 8,800-kilometer bord...
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Border Flows
Declining access to fresh water is one of the twenty-first century’s most pressing environmental and human rights challenges, yet the struggle for water is not a new cause. The 8,800-kilometer bord...
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Seeking Order in Anarchy
"The idea of multilateralism is not something that can be forced on states, nor does it come naturally to them." —Tom Keating Seeking Order in Anarchy offers insights into both the theoretical fou...
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Seeking Order in Anarchy
"The idea of multilateralism is not something that can be forced on states, nor does it come naturally to them." —Tom Keating Seeking Order in Anarchy offers insights into both the theoretical fou...
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Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada's Northern Social Economy
People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a rel...
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Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada's Northern Social Economy
People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a rel...
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K9 Behavior Basics
A Manual for Proven Success in Operational Service Dog Training
Understand dog behavior to work with, not against, your K9’s instincts. The art and science of training police, military and other service dogs continue to evolve as we learn more about dog behavi...
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Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduct...
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Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduct...
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K9 Investigation Errors
Make sure your K9 investigation work holds up in court. Faulty K9 investigations often have serious consequences: the guilty might walk free, and the innocent might suffer. Internationally recogniz...
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From Kinshasa to Kandahar
Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective
Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crim...
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How Canadians Communicate VI
Food nourishes the body, but our relationship with food extends far beyond our need for survival. Food choices not only express our personal tastes but also communicate a range of beliefs, values, ...
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Scaling Up
When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organiza...
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Storm Warning
Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the composition of our planet’s atmosphere and causing it to warm at an unnatural and oftentimes astonishingly rapid rate. Much of that warmth...
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Whose Man in Havana?
In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Pale...
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Whose Man in Havana?
In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Pale...
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The Climate Nexus
Secure supplies of water, food and energy are essential to human dignity and well-being around the globe. In turn, the vitality of these three depends on a thriving biodiversity supported by health...
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K9 Decoys and Aggression
A good decoy is a K9 trainer's most valuable tool. A good decoy can make a poor dog better, a mediocre dog good, and a good dog excellent. A poor decoy, on the other hand, can have devastating effe...
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Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged...
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Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium
Politics and Literature shows how important insights about genocide, poverty, state violence, world terrorism, the clash of civilizations, and other phenomena haunting the world at the turn of the ...
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