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2021., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 363.72 H668c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis. Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that waste is an acute environmental and human health issue--and a complex one, the solutions to which are often contradictory. Canada's Waste Flows is an honest look at the production and movement of Canadian waste, from region to region and across the globe, and its consequences. Through a series of timely empirical case studies, the book reveals waste as less of a technological problem and more of a material, economic, political, historical, and cultural concern. Canada's Waste Flows demonstrates that Canadians are misdirecting their attention to post-consumer waste and their responsibility for minimizing it through recycling; waste must be understood as a social justice issue, and in particular as a symptom of ongoing settler colonialism. A critical and compelling book that will generate conversation and incite change, Canada's Waste Flows uncovers how Canada's role as a global leader in waste production and export is key to changing Canada's waste future."--
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1998., Viking Call No: 336.71 M173c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the past four years, the Chretien government has slashed our cherished social programs more deeply than Brian Mulroney's Tories ever dared. We were told that Canada's deficit problems left no alternative; international financial markets would cut us off if we didn't start slashing. We did as we were told, and the deficit has all but disappeared. Yet now that we've reached this deficit-free nirvana -- the point at where we were told the world would once again be our oyster -- there are certain things we apparently still can't have, such as jobs and social programs.The popular belief is that we can't have these things because of factors beyond our control --because globalization and technology have left us powerless to acheive them. But in this provocative book, Linda McQuaig argues that we are not really powerless. She shows that the international community in fact has the tools to regulate the world financial system in a way that would harness its enormous energy to our collective advantage. This was done before -- for three prosperous decades after the Second World War -- and can be done again. If anything, advances in computer technology would actually make the regulation of capital easier now.This book challenges one of the most widely held beliefs of our time. And it shows how, if we stopped buying into the cult of impotence, we could create a new order that would put the rights of people before the rights of capital.
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-- Rebuilding democracy from the ground up.By Meslin, Dave2019., Adult, Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada Call No: 323.0420971 M578t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Something is wrong with democracy. We can all see it's not working. From the recent American election to Brexit, around the word and close to home, the headlines are full of examples of governments misleading their people, parties misleading their delegates, and policy drifting further and further away from what polls keep showing people want. We always vote for change, and yet we always end up with the same old lies. If this just the way democracy works, we should just give up. If the game is rigged, why play it? But as Dave Meslin's career has shown, we can un-rig it. We can get rid of the corrupting influence of money on policy. We can get rid of governments that ignore their constituents. We can take away the blank cheques we write to our leaders each election. But a huge part of that is overcoming our own apathy. And that comes from knowing how to get things done. It's hard to change the world if you can't change a municipal by-law. Unrigged will show readers how to do both. And it will show us that these two challenges are not fundamentally different. Once we know that we can do it, and we know how to do it, we can get democracy working for us rather than against us. From throwing back the curtain of secrecy surrounding City Hall to the ongoing campaign for electoral reform, Dave Meslin has been both out on the street in marches and in the back rooms drawing up policy. With Unrigged he shows us how it's done."--.
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2014., Adult, Greystone Books Call No: Bio M466w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Elizabeth May reflects on her life and the people and experiences that have formed her and informed her beliefs. From daughter of activist parents, to waitress and cook on Cape Breton Island, to Dalhousie University law student, lawyer, and environmentalist, and finally to leader of the Green Party and first elected Canadian Green Member of Parliament. May believes that Canadians must rescue our threatened democracy, return to our traditional role as a world leader, develop a sustainable economy, and take immediate and decisive action to address the climate crisis. A portrait of a remarkable woman and an urgent call to action. Elizabeth May is leader of the Green Party of Canada, and the Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands. She lives in Sydney-by-the-Sea on Vancouver Island. Her previous books include: Losing Confidence: Power, Politics, and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy; How to Save the World in Your Spare Time; Global Warming for Dummies; and Budworm Battles."--Provided by publisher.
