By Patricia M. Danzon

Drug assurance for seniors is healthier addressed by means of private-sector plans than by way of forcing brands to supply Federal offer agenda rate reductions to the retail area.

By A.K. Dewdney

Sunlight within the Swamp is the bush memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney, a famous Canadian artist and recorder of local rock artwork. His nice loves, paintings and the Canadian north, come jointly during this publication. His admire for local tradition and artwork is mirrored in his personal paintings, his perception into local rock artwork, and his ardour for canoeing and the northern experience.The 3rd subject matter of the booklet is historical past spanning the interval from 1910 via to the Seventies within which the outdated north principally vanished. Dewdney was once there to checklist the pictures of forgotten goals painted on rocks and cliffs in the course of the Canadian protect. because of those memoirs we're all there to witness this stuff with Dewdney.

By Tuula Heinonen, Anna Metteri

Wellbeing and fitness and psychological well-being are conceptualized greatly right here. The health and wellbeing and future health of physique and brain are visible as integrally attached, formed by way of organic, actual, mental, fabric, social and structural good points and determinants. consumers are seen as lively, engaged brokers with strengths and assets from which to attract in assembly each day demanding situations and significant lifestyles crises. Contributions from around the globe let the social paintings pupil to profit approximately present perform in locations as assorted as Australia, Finland, China, South Africa, Wales, Canada and the USA. each one perform bankruptcy is observed through either reflective questions and a case research derived from perform, written either to stimulate dialogue and increase review and remedy making plans talents.

By Rudy Wiebe

A Discovery of Strangers tells of the assembly of 2 civilizations – the 1st come upon of the nomadic Dene individuals with Europeans – in an innovative reconstruction of John Franklin’s first map-making excursion in 1819—21 in what's now the Northwest Territories. on the middle of the radical is a love tale among twenty-two-year-old midshipman Robert Hood, the Franklin expedition’s artist, and a fifteen-year-old Yellowknife woman recognized to the British as Greenstockings. a countrywide bestseller, released additionally in Germany and China, Wiebe’s first novel in 11 years and his 12th paintings of fiction received him his moment Governor General’s Award for Fiction on the age of sixty, over robust festival from Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.

By David I. Levine, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The nice previous days...a time while employers rewarded staff' loyalty to the corporate with activity defense and good wages. sadly, in accordance with many pundits, these days are long gone purely to get replaced through the early Nineties by way of a "new employment agreement" lower than which employers gift each one employee's talents according to a cost made up our minds via the present hard work industry. This new paradigm is defined as being extra "flexible" by way of employment attachment and wages paid.

This publication explores this obvious swap within the employment agreement from a brand new point of view. while previous stories during this zone fascinated about the rigidities within the volume aspect of the employment dating, e.g., adjustments in task tenure and charges of displacement, the authors specialize in the cost aspect of the agreement -- even if salary constructions became extra versatile.

In 1971, Doeringer and Piore released a extraordinary account of the way wages have been set at huge employers within the U.S. They defined inner hard work markets that contained a few salary rigidities, specifically that giant employers paid better wages, they paid related employees related wages even if the staff have been in several areas and hard work markets, and relative pay among occupations confirmed little version over the years.

Levine, et al. see such elements of the previous employment agreement as hypotheses that may be validated to determine if adjustments have certainly happened below the recent employment agreement. for example, they probe even if the volume of variance in pay between employers has lowered and even if edition in pay inside of a task name elevated (presumably as a result of a heavier reliance on benefit pay and bonuses). those and different hypotheses on inner hard work markets are studied by using 5 facts units, together with a survey on equity in employment relatives gathered in particular for this research.

Readers should be shocked to benefit that the authors' survey effects convey that the rigidities of the previous employment agreement stay. staff' norms towards pay cuts and layoffs stay in keeping with the outdated employment agreement. equally, businesses' pay guidelines -- most probably relating to this balance in norms -- don't look considerably extra versatile and market-oriented now than they did in years prior.

A variety of remarkable contributions in relation to wages paid additionally outcome. Levine, et al. rfile the emerging total inequality inside person employers and decompose that into inequality inside of an corporation and emerging inequality for comparable staff at diverse employers. They determine the emerging returns to ability stumbled on through different researchers, and attempt no matter if product markets or exertions markets have an effect on the extent of wages paid via huge employers or the rigidities through the years and house at huge employers. The authors additionally give a contribution an outline of adjusting salary constructions over 4 many years, and so they increase our knowing of human capital concept and different reasons of inner exertions markets.

Overall, readers of this ebook will achieve a greater figuring out of ways inner hard work markets have operated and the level to which they exist or were outdated via the recent employment contract.

By Ruth Panofsky

By Julie Rak

Auto/biography in Canada: serious instructions widens the sector of auto/biography stories with its subtle multidisciplinary views at the idea, feedback, and perform of self, neighborhood, and illustration. instead of contemplating autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable houses, and instead of concentrating on serious ways, the essays discover auto/biography as a discourse approximately id and illustration within the context of various disciplinary shifts. Auto/biography in Canada seems to be at how existence narratives are made in Canada . Originating from literary reports, heritage, and social paintings, the essays during this assortment disguise issues that diversity from queer Canadian autobiography, autobiography and autism, and newspaper dying notices as biography, to Canadian autobiography and the Holocaust, gray Owl and authenticity, France Th?oret and autofiction, and a brand new analyzing of Stolen existence, the collaborative textual content by way of Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe. Julie Rak’s important “big photo” advent strains the historical past of auto/biography experiences in Canada. whereas the individuals chart disciplinary shifts occurring in auto/biography stories, their essays also are a part of the continuing scholarship that's remaking how one can comprehend Canada.

By Steven Sakiyama, Randolph P. Angle (auth.), Eric Taylor, Ann McMillan (eds.)

This ebook offers a large review of the problems with regards to handling of air caliber in Canada. know about the air concerns that experience brought on affects to ecosystems or human wellbeing and fitness and for this reason been specified to be controlled. realize how Canada’s nationwide governance related to a federal executive in addition to provincial and territorial governments affects the air caliber administration strategy. know how Canadians deal with their air caliber in context with the united states, their greatest and closest neighbour. enjoy the event of forty three of Canada’s such a lot skilled air caliber administration pros who proportion their insights into the country of air caliber in Canada at the present time, the way it is controlled, in addition to giving a glimpse into the future.​

By Janet Ajzenstat, Michael Sean Smith

Ajzenstat and Smith problem the belief of Canada as a rustic whose liberal individualism, in contrast to that of the USA, is redeemed by means of a practice of presidency intervention in financial and social lifestyles: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking ebook starts with the now vintage article within which the purple tory view used to be formulated. It then provides a brand new and illuminating photo of Canadian political existence, within which liberal individualism confronts no longer toryism however the participatory culture of civic republicanism. within the ultimate part the 2 editors, one a liberal, the opposite a civic republican, debate the the most important questions dominating Canadian politics today-including Quebec's look for recognition-from the viewpoint in their shared knowing of Canada's founding.

By Stephen Azzi