Cycling into Saigon
The essence of democracy is the peaceful and legitimate transfer ofgovernment. In 1995 in Ontario, the omens for a successful transitionweren't promising. Almost no one had expected Mike Harris'sCommon Sense Revolution to catapult his Progressive Conservatives fromthird-party obscurity to victory in the June election. The Harrismanifesto declared i …
Language Matters
In the 1960s, a study for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism andBiculturalism Commission revealed that Canadian associations were oftenparalyzed by internal conflicts over language. LanguageMatters examines whether this remains the case.The contributorspresent case studies or life histories of diverse associations, frombusiness organizations to g …
Street Protests and Fantasy Parks
The speed and intensity of global integration in the last two decadeshave provoked serious debate about the human impact of globalizationand deep concern about the capacity of the state to provide socialjustice. Street Protests and Fantasy Parks focuses on twodimensions of globalization: the cultural and social realities ofglobal connection and the …