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Contemporary Canadian agricultural and food policies are contributing to the current global food crisis: the industrialized, high-input, export-driven agricultural production sector, coupled with concentrated corporate processing and retailing, are ecologically unsustainable, increasingly unaffordable, unhealthy and socially unjust. Employing an interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral approach, Food Sovereignty in Canada explores how communities all over the country are actively engaged in implementing alternative agricultural and food models within the framework of food sovereignty taking control over food-producing resources, markets and agricultural policy. This framework offers Canadian citizens, researchers and policymakers the opportunity to build alternative agricultural and food models that are less environmentally damaging and that keep farmers on the land while ensuring that those living in cities have access to healthy and safe food. Achieving food sovereignty requires conceptual and practical changes, reshaping menus, farming, communities, relationships, values and policy, but, as the authors clearly demonstrate, the urgent work of building food sovereignty in Canada is well under way."

Climate change is having an increasingly significant impact on work in Canada, and the effect climate change has, and will continue to have, on work concerns many Canadians. However, this fact has not been seriously considered either in academic circles, in the labour movement nor especially by the Canadian government. Climate@Work addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada's conservative silence towards climate change and the Canadian government's refusal to take it seriously.

The author does not divine a purpose in the accidental opportunities he has encountered. Rather he accepts the mystery of their almost haphazardness and stresses the importance of seizing the opportunities that the opening doors present.

In this comprehensive glossary, the reader finds necessary definitions needed to navigate the labyrinth of terms and phrases used in development literature. It explains the origin of terms and places definitions within the historical context of the literature.

Contributors from a variety of academic disciplines, write about the extent to which multicultural policies and programs facilitate cultural freedom and equality of opportunities, for ethnic and racial minority group Canadians.

As well as Jean-Claude Parrot's story, this is also the story of the formation of a union. In this book, you will follow the life of one of Canada's greatest union leaders as he fought to give the workers a voice. You also learn about how the struggle was waged and how a union leadership worked tirelessly in the service of the union membership.