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Postsecondary Education in British Columbia: Public Policy and Structural Development, 1960-2015
As distinct from previous historical accounts of postsecondary education in BC, Cowin makes it clear that he will cover the development of the “entire” postsecondary system in BC (3). For Cowin, this means the whole...
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Negotiating Buck Naked: Doukhobors, Public Policy, and Conflict Resolution
No one knows better than Gregory Cran the sometimes baffling intricacies of the relationship among the various groups of Doukhobors and between them and the mainstream community in British Columbia. Between 1979 and 1987, he...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 121-3
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Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective
This is a book that I will use in two of my university courses: one on Canadian political economy and the other on labour policy. It is well researched, deals with issues that have immediate...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 119-21
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The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
There are few issues in British Columbia more divisive than aquaculture. With their new book, Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews provide a timely, well-documented, and clearly articulated step back from the aquaculture fray. The impetus...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 148-152
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Working Mothers and the Childcare Dilemma
The history of twentieth century childcare has received scant attention from historians in Canada. Lisa Pasolli’s compact study of childcare debates in British Columbia from the 1900s through the Harper era reveals what a historian...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 224-225
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Investing in Place: Economic Renewal in Northern British Columbia
This book addresses the question of how to bring about sustainable economic and social development in northern British Columbia. It is written from a geographic perspective with influences from policy studies and economics. The authors...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 140-1
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Empowering Electricity: Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada
Empowering Electricity is a detailed examination of the political and social economy of electricity co-operatives and power sector reform in Canada. The co-operative movement is commonly, and rightfully, viewed as a model of grassroots organization...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 226-227
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Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell’s Canyon High Dam Controversy
This is a book about why something did not happen. It is not quite counter-factual history, but it is an approach that works to remind us that nothing is inevitable. In the postwar Northwest, nothing,...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 122-4
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Health and Aging in British Columbia: Vulnerability and Resilience
Health and Aging in British Columbia: Vulnerability and Resilience, edited by Denise Cloutier-Fisher, Leslie T. Foster and David Hultsch, is a collection of 17 chapters on health and aging in British Columbia prepared by 30...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 163-64
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Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917.
E.A Heaman has produced a decided masterpiece on a topic too often thought to be dry as a bone. Taxation, with its underlying legitimacy of consent, is the lifeblood of the state, supplying it with...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 177-8
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Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy
FOR SEVERAL DECADES now, Canada has presented itself to the world as a country in the forefront of environmental stewardship and responsibility. The sheer size of our country, its relatively low population density, and the...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 313-5
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Building a Collaborative Advantage: Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
With 235,000 people experiencing homelessness each year in Canada, the nature and quality of the state response are crucial to preventing and ultimately ending homelessness. Doberstein’s analysis of the role governance networks –groups of community...
BC Studies no. 203 Autumn 2019 | Page(s) 165-166
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Where the Pavement Ends
Marie Wadden is a non-Aboriginal investigative journalist/network producer for CBC Radio who is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1981, she shared her home with two Innu youth who came to the city from Sheshatshiu,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 135-136
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Too Small to See, Too Big to Ignore: Child Health and Well-being
AS THE MOST RECENT Statistics Canada reports tell us, poverty continues to stalk British Columbia’s youngest citizens. Their distress, with outcomes measured pitilessly in shortfalls in nutrition, education, and health, is directly associated with the...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 190-2
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Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade
Prostitution is a complex and politically charged issue that defies simple analysis. Daniel Francis’s new book documents attempts to regulate the sex industry in Vancouver, a city where the subject has occupied a central place...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 198-9
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The Campbell Revolution? Power, Politics and Policy in BC
This is one of those rare collections that focusses on a recent significant political transition. In doing so Jason Lacharite and Tracy Summerville have produced a needed and worthwhile book. For those not cognizant of recent...
BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 193-194
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Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring and Social-Ecological Health
Resilience. This is a word that, for me, conjures up a feeling of hard times met with bald-faced determination to get through whatever comes one’s way. Coasts under Stress brings this idea to life through...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 164-6
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The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage
In a small, unbuilt parcel of land in East Vancouver surrounded by houses, streets, and Tyee Elementary school, a grassy gulch takes the shape, on closer inspection, of a thin, winding creek bed. At the...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 149-50
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States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
The publication of Tina Loo’s States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century marks the coming of age of the field of Canadian environmental history. In some respects, this statement may seem over...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 131-4
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Private Grief, Public Mourning: The Rise of the Roadside Shrine in BC
Typically involving a cross and some flowers, the roadside memorials located along British Columbia’s highways catch the passing motorist’s attention and instantly raise a series of questions about death and mourning. Who died there? How...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 112-3
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Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion
In the spring of 2018, hundreds of people gathered between city hall and the public library in downtown Bellingham, Washington, to witness the dedication of a 10-ton granite “Arch of Reconciliation,” a monument to and...