Author: Co-operative Commonwealth FederationPublisher: National Council of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, [1938] (Toronto : Stafford Printers Limited)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Federal Election Program Adopted by the National Convention of the C.C.F. Held in Edmonton, Alberta, July 28 and 29, 1938
Author: Co-operative Commonwealth FederationPublisher: National Council of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, [1938] (Toronto : Stafford Printers Limited)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Federal Election Program
Author: Social Protest from the Left in Canada, 1870-1970
Author: Peter WeinrichPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Working People in Alberta
Author: Alvin FinkelPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1926836588
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
Our Canada
Author: Leo HeapsPublisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9781550283532
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Preface Acknowledgements PART 1: The Pioneers A Note on the Biographies J.S. Woodsworth Leo Heaps A.A. Heaps Leo Heaps M.J. Coldwell David Heaps Tommy Douglas Pierre Berton
The Beaver Hills Country
Author: Graham MacDonaldPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1897425376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. Ecological themes, such as climatic cycles, ground water availability, vegetation succession and the response of wildlife, and the impact of fires, shape the possibilities and provide the challenges to those who have called the region home or used its varied resources: Indians, Metis, and European immigrants.
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
Author: Meenal ShrivastavaPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1771990295
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.
Provincial Solidarities
Author: David FrankPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1927356237
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Provincial Solidarities tells the story of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour--part of the history of working class struggles in Canada.
Fixing Canadian Democracy
Author: Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 088975201X
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Perogies and Politics
Author: Rhonda L. HintherPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487511167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it. For twentieth-century leftist Ukrainians, culture and politics were inextricably linked. The interaction of Ukrainian socio-cultural identity with Marxist-Leninism resulted in one of the most dynamic national working-class movements Canada has ever known. The Ukrainian left’s success lay in its ability to meet the needs of and speak in meaningful, respectful, and empowering ways to its supporters’ experiences and interests as individuals and as members of a distinct immigrant working-class community. This offered to Ukrainians a radical social, cultural, and political alternative to the fledgling Ukrainian churches and right-wing Ukrainian nationalist movements. Hinther’s colourful and in-depth work reveals how left-wing Ukrainians were affected by changing social, economic, and political forces and how they in turn responded to and challenged these forces.