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Canadian Water Politics

Conflicts and Institutions

By: Mark Sproule-Jones,Carolyn Johns,B. Timothy Heinmiller

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Canadian Water Politics

Conflicts and Institutions

By: Mark Sproule-Jones,Carolyn Johns,B. Timothy Heinmiller

Canadian Water Politics explores the nature of water use conflicts and the need for institutional designs and reforms to meet the governance challenges now and in the future. The editors present an overview of the properties of water, the nature of water uses, and the institutions that underpin water politics. Contributors highlight specific water policy concerns and conflicts in various parts of Canada and cover issues ranging from the Walkerton drinking water tragedy, water export policy, Great Lakes pollution, St Lawrence River shipping, Alberta irrigation and oil production, and fisheries management on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773575952

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9780773575950

Some of the Whole Truth

By: Mark Sproule-Jones

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Some of the Whole Truth

By: Mark Sproule-Jones

If you always thought that U.S.–Canadian relations seemed too good to be true, you’ll enjoy the political intrigue and tit for tat in the thrilling novel Some of the Whole Truth. From a surprise beginning to a surprising end, this tale of revenge, duplicity, and lust takes readers into the highest level of politics in Ottawa and Washington. In present day politics, the Canadian prime minister seeks revenge for U.S. hacking into Canada’s secret computer files. The revenge is designed to provoke and tease the president, a smooth-talking womanizer from Indiana. The PM’s wife wants a fast, peaceful retirement to her husband’s British Columbia hometown, and she threatens blackmail to succeed. The PM falls prey to an ambitious MP who wants both lust and power. Though security services of both the U.S. and Canada are collegial in strategy, they are ruthless in operations. Assassination and kidnapping become part of the agenda. The central character is Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Jones, who exacts revenge for the blundered U.S. hacking. Soon payback leads to payback, with push coming to shove from the PM’s wife as well as the president’s mistress, who is also the U.S. Secretary of State. The game envelopes the powerful, their families, and their lovers. You might even learn Some of the Whole Truth.

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125

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1631355473

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9781631355479

The Last Plague

Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada

By: Mark Osborne Humphries

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The Last Plague

Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada

By: Mark Osborne Humphries

The 'Spanish' influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since the cholera epidemics of 1832. But the 1918 flu was a different type of disease. In spite of the best efforts of both federal and local officials, up to fifty thousand Canadians died. In The Last Plague, Mark Osborne Humphries examines how federal epidemic disease management strategies developed before the First World War, arguing that the deadliest epidemic in Canadian history ultimately challenged traditional ideas about disease and public health governance. Using federal, provincial, and municipal archival sources, newspapers, and newly discovered military records as well as original epidemiological studies Humphries' sweeping national study situates the flu within a larger social, political, and military context for the first time. His provocative conclusion is that the 1918 flu crisis had important long-term consequences at the national level, ushering in the 'modern' era of public health in Canada.

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349

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University of Toronto Press

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1442610441

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9781442610446

Governments at Work

Canadian Parliamentary Federalism and Its Public Policy Effects

By: Mark Sproule-Jones

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Governments at Work

Canadian Parliamentary Federalism and Its Public Policy Effects

By: Mark Sproule-Jones

In this innovative analysis of how government works, Mark Sproule-Jones examines the underlying arrangements, or 'rules', that operate between levels of government and the execution of public policy. He begins by identifying three levels of rules. Rules at the lowest or operational level determine how policies are delivered. Next, at the institutional level, are the rules that determine which institutions operate at the lowest level. Finally, rules at the constitutional level define which institutions can make the determinations. These layers are reproduced in multiple hierarchies throughout the national and international structures in which Canadian public policy operates. The author then explores three public policies as they converge in one location: commercial shipping, pleasure boating, and a water-quality management in the harbour at Hamilton, Ontario. In the context of rule configurations, Sproule-Jones evaluates these public policies with reference to legal doctrine, technical matters, the operation of political institutions, and constitutional constraints.

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1487574363

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Canadian Water Politics

Canadian Water Politics

Some of the Whole Truth

Some of the Whole Truth

The Last Plague

The Last Plague

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Governments at Work

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