Bücher der Reihe Politics and Public Policy

In 1969, Canada officially embraced and wrote into law the equality of English and French, and in 1988, both were legislated as working languages in its federal institutions. With the half-century mark fast approaching, this book takes an unflinching look at the divergence between policy and practice.

Provincial and Territorial Cultural Policy in Canada: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation offers a comprehensive synthesis of the history of subnational cultural policies, including governments' institutionalization and instrumentalization of culture, and the development, dissemination, and impact of cultural policy interventions.

This book presents a theory of community development that attends to multiple aspects of diversity and marginalization in contemporary Canadian society. It will be of particular value to graduate students in the field.

Language is the Key offers an examination of the widely recognized system of official language training for adult immigrants to Canada-the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) and their French equivalent, Niveaux de competence linguistique canadiens (NCLC).

This collective workaims to establish a framework for higher education institutions hoping to putin place a French immersion program.

Canada's borders in globalization illustrate the power and richness of culture through the intersection and engagement of imagination, affinity and identity. Border culture is the vessel of engagement between countries and peoples-assuming many forms-yet, remaining a thread in globalization.

The ideology of parallelism distorts our understanding of Indigenous dependency. Restoring the "nation-to-nation" relationship only serves to inhibit Indigenous Peoples' participation in the Canadian labour force, with the undesirable and unintended effect of entrenching their isolation from the modern world.

With the new geological age known as the Anthropocene heralding dramaticdisruptions in the earth system, geopolitics needs to be fundamentallyreconsidered to deal with these new circumstances. Planetary boundaries andecological change are now the key contextualization for considering future globalpolitical arrangements.

Border culture emerges through the intersection and engagement of imagination, affinity and identity. It is evident wherever boundaries separate or sort people and their goods, ideas or other belongings. It is the vessel of engagement between countries and peoples-assuming many forms, exuding a variety of expressions, changing shapes-but border culture does not disappear once it is developed, and it may be visualized as a thread that runs throughout the process of globalization.Border culture is conveyed in imaginaries and productions that are linked to borderland identities constructed in the borderlands. These identities underlie the enforcement of control and resistance to power that also comprise border cultures.Canada's borders in globalization offer an opportunity to explore the interplay of borders and culture, identify the fundamental currents of border culture in motion, and establish an approach to understanding how border culture is placed and replaced in globalization.Published in English.

What motivates "ordinary people" to support refugees emotionally and financially?This is a timely question considering the number of displaced people in today's world is at an all-time high. To help counter this crisis, it is imperative for the Canadian government to determine which policies encourage volunteers to welcome asylum seekers, and which ones must be reviewed.Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions relates the story of the St. Joseph's Parish Refugee Outreach Committee over its thirty years in action, revealing how seemingly small decisions and actions have led to significant changes in policies and in people's lives-and how they can do so again in the future.By helping readers-young and old, secular and faith-oriented-understand what drives individuals and communities to welcome refugees with open hearts and open arms, the authors hope to inspire people across Canada and beyond its borders to strengthen our collective willingness and ability to offer refuge as a lifesaving protection for those who need it.