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Searching for Justice

An Autobiography

By: Fred Kaufman,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

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Searching for Justice

An Autobiography

By: Fred Kaufman,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

The Honourable Fred Kaufman has been a distinguished figure in Canadian law for a half century. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in mid-1920s Vienna, Kaufman escaped to England on the eve of the Second World War. In 1940, he was interned as an 'enemy alien' and sent to Canada. Released in 1942, Kaufman stayed in Canada where he went on to university and law school in Montreal. Kaufman was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1955 and practiced criminal law for eighteen years, taking part in many of the famous cases of that period. In 1960, he secured the release of a young Pierre Elliott Trudeau from prison, and in 1973, Trudeau returned the favour by personally informing Kaufman of his appointment to the Quebec Court of Appeal, where he served for eighteen years, including one as Acting Chief Justice of Quebec. Since his retirement in 1991, Kaufman has led numerous commissions and inquiries, most notably the investigation into the wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin and the two-year reassessment of the Steven Truscott case. Searching for Justice is Kaufman's remarkable story in his own words. It is the tale of adversity overcome in a crucial period of Canadian legal history.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802090516

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Saskatchewan Politicians

Lives Past and Present

By: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

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Saskatchewan Politicians

Lives Past and Present

By: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

The more than 275 biographies of Saskatchewan politicians from the past 100 years that are included in this volume represent but a fraction of those who have been elected to public office in the province. These are only the longer-serving, the most distinguished, the most famous...the most infamous. Together, their individual stories tell our collective political story in Saskatchewan, the birthplace of Medicare and socialism in North America.

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University of Regina Press

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0889771650

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Ressources, problèmes et défis de l'Asie du Sud-Est

By: Rodolphe de Koninck,Jean Nadeau,Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies. Conference

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Ressources, problèmes et défis de l'Asie du Sud-Est

By: Rodolphe de Koninck,Jean Nadeau,Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies. Conference

Culture, religion, rural development, international relations, politics, South East Asia - institutional framework, ASEAN, wealth, Islam, Buddhism, traditions, political leadership, rural area labour relations, fishery, refugee camps, role of Canada development aid through sports, political problems stemming from multinational enterprises. Graphs, maps, references, statistical tables.

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Presses Université Laval

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2763771114

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9782763771113

The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996

By: Dana Sawchuk,Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion

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The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996

By: Dana Sawchuk,Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion

Provides a new understanding of the relationship between Church and State in 20th-century Costa Rica. Understanding the relationship between religion and social justice in Costa Rica involves piecing together the complex interrelationships between Church and State — between priests, popes, politics, and the people. This book does just that. Dana Sawchuk chronicles the fortunes of the country’s two competing forms of labour organizations during the 1980s and demonstrates how different factions within the Church came to support either the union movement or Costa Rica’s home-grown Solidarity movement. Challenging the conventional understanding of Costa Rica as a wholly peaceful and prosperous nation, and traditional interpretations of Catholic Social Teaching, this book introduces readers to a Church largely unknown outside Costa Rica. Sawchuk has carefully analyzed material from a multitude of sources — interviews, newspapers, books, and articles, as well as official Church documents, editorials, and statements by Church representativesto provide a firmly rooted socio-economic history of the experiences of workers, and the Catholic Church’s responses to workers in Costa Rica.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889204454

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Prendre la Mesure Du Droit International

By: Canadian Council on International Law. Conference,Canadian Council on International Law

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Prendre la Mesure Du Droit International

By: Canadian Council on International Law. Conference,Canadian Council on International Law

The Canadian Council on International law was founded in 1972 by a group of Canada's leading and most distinguished scholars and practitioners in international law. The Council supports the development and exchange of ideas amongst a community of persons interested in international law with particular focus on the Canadian perspective on international matters. To this end, one of the major activities of the Council is to hold an annual conference. This years conference proceedings comprise a collection of essays written by leading academics and practitioners on the theme of the effectiveness of international law. A wide range of subject areas are addressed, including international trade law, intervention, private international law, international human rights law, compliance methodology, women and international law, international criminal law, international environmental law, and terrorism. This work will be of value to international lawyers in both the public and private sphere, legal scholars, and those interested in international relations.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041122346

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9789041122346

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Searching for Justice

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Ressources, problèmes et défis de l'Asie du Sud-Est

Ressources, problèmes et défis de l'Asie du Sud-Est

The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996

The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996

Prendre la Mesure Du Droit International

Prendre la Mesure Du Droit International

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