Deyohaha´:ge:

Edited by Daniel Coleman, Ki'en Debicki, and Bonnie M. Freeman
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Law, History, Canadian History
Series: Indigenous Imaginings

Deyohahá:ge:, “two roads or paths” in Cayuga language, evokes the Covenant Chain-Two Row Wampum, known as the “grandfather of the treaties.” Famously, this Haudenosaunee wampum agreement showed how Indigenous people a ...

Quiet Rebels

By Mary Jane Mossman
Subjects: History, Law, Social Science, Women’s Studies

“It’s a girl!” the Ontario press announced, as Canada’s first woman lawyer was called to the Ontario bar in February 1897. Quiet Rebels explores experiences of exclusion among the few women lawyers for t ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by R. Brian Howe & Katherine Covell
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Child Studies, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” t ...

Debating Rights Inflation in Canada

By Dominique Clément
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Law, Political Science, Social Policy
Series: Canadian Commentaries

Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that whereas ...

The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition

By Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, and J.C. Blokhuis
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention ...

After Prison

Edited by Rose Ricciardelli & Adrienne M.F. Peters
Subjects: Law, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Services, Social Science, Sociology

Employment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries ...

Blocking Public Participation

By Byron Sheldrick
Subjects: Political Science, Law

Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasingly ...

Youth, Education, and Marginality

Edited by Kate Tilleczek & H. Bruce Ferguson
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Education
Series: SickKids Community and Mental Health

Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators are complemented by youth poetry, ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by R. Brian Howe & Katherine Covell
Subjects: Political Science, Social Science, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights ...

Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Edited by Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, and Gerald R. Adams
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy, Political Science, Social Policy

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book ...