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Learning Outcomes, Academic Credit, And Student Mobility

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 There is increasing interest in the use of learning outcomes in postsecondary education, and deliberations have surfaced with regard to their potential to serve as a tool for advancing credit transfer. This book assesses the conceptual foundations and implications of using learning outcomes.
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Man Of Parliament - Selected Speeches From Joe Clark

43,73€ + 10% CARD

 An anthology of poignant and important speeches from Canadaâ€™s sixteenth prime minister.
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Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management - Third Edition

by Andrew Graham

76,85€ + 10% CARD

 A primer on managing public funds and a sophisticated presentation of how governments actually work.
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Federalism And The Welfare State In A Multicultural World

41,08€ + 10% CARD

 A timely evaluation of Canadian social welfare policy.
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Identities, Trust, And Cohesion In Federal Systems - Public Perspectives

41,08€ + 10% CARD

 A detailed examination of federalism and public opinion in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
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Assessing Quality In Postsecondary Education - International Perspectives

by Amy Kaufman, Harvey P. Weingarten e Martin Hicks

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 For many years the benefits conferred by a higher education went undisputed. But students, employers, governments, and taxpayers are now demanding evidence of educational quality and value. At the same time, fiscally strapped governments are raising questions about how institutions are funded and the role quality should play in setting funding levels. In the face of these mounting pressures, jurisdictions around the world are working toward designing meaningful indicators to measure the performance of postsecondary institutions that go beyond enrolment numbers, graduation rates, and ever-popular reputational rankings. Assessing Quality in Postsecondary Education: International Perspectives presents a collection of thought-provoking essays by world-renowned higher-education thinkers and policy experts that discuss ways of defining and measuring academic quality. The papers were presented at a conference convened by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario in May 2017 and provide valuable insight into this pressing issue and underscore the need for reform.
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Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda - Policy, Governance, And Strategy

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 This collection is the result of a 2016 national leaders conference sponsored by Queen’s University to explore the prospects for a pan-Canadian healthcare innovation strategy. The conference themes were inspired by the 2015 report of the federally commissioned Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, led by David Naylor, which examined how the federal government could support innovation. A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda features original commissioned chapters from academics and healthcare leaders addressing a range of issues such as the meaning of healthcare innovation, how a national healthcare agency and investment fund could be governed, the need for big data and evidence, adding value through Canadian supply-chain management, overcoming regulatory barriers to innovation, policy innovations for indigenous, military and elderly populations, the role of medical professions in promoting innovation, education, and the development of medical innovators. The Canadian healthcare system is so fragmented that any thought of a system-wide strategy for healthcare innovation is considered a far-distant ideal at best. This book presents a contrary view, outlining an agenda for Canadian healthcare innovation. It shows that Canada does indeed have the building blocks for innovation, and concludes that the time to act is now.
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Without Walls Or Barriers - The Speeches Of Premier David Peterson

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 In June 1985, David Peterson was sworn in as the leader of Ontario’s first Liberal government in forty-two years. This collection of speeches explores the activist agenda the London, Ontario, lawyer pursued through his premiership, which sought to ensure all Ontarians were able to participate fully in provincial society. When Peterson was asked what he viewed as his most important accomplishment, he thought for a brief moment and then whispered with obvious emotion, "breaking down walls and barriers." Through his speeches, readers can see Premier Peterson on the wider Canadian stage by addressing the economic challenges faced by the federation - most notably free trade - and by supporting the Meech Lake Accord, which was designed to bring Quebec into the constitutional family. His speeches also show him on the global stage, engaged in the challenges of the transformation of world politics and Canada’s trading relationship with the United States. By the time Peterson’s premiership had come to an end in 1990, the Berlin Wall had fallen, Europe was increasingly integrated, a fragmented Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement was in full force and effect, and the age of globalization had begun. Through this selection of speeches, the editors also present insights into a range of other figures, from former premiers and Peterson’s political contemporaries to the British royal family. Particularly powerful tributes include Nelson Mandela’s first visit to Canada and Peterson’s eulogy for MPP Dalton McGuinty, Sr, the father of Ontario’s 24th premier. TVOntario’s Steve Paikin provides an in-depth introduction that puts the life and political times of Premier Peterson and his government in broader perspective.
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Managing A Canadian Healthcare Strategy

by A. Scott Carson

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 Canada’s fragmented healthcare system is one of the most expensive among the OECD countries, yet the quality of its performance is mediocre at best. Canada lacks a system-wide healthcare strategy that brings together many individual federal, provincial, and territorial strategies into a comprehensive and coherent whole. Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy is a collection of ten policy research essays by leading Canadian and international scholars who address three important questions. First, if Canada had a unifying strategy, how would the country measure its success and monitor its performance? Second, who are the agents of change to bring about a Canadian system-wide strategy? Third, how can the jurisdictional realities of Canada’s political system be managed to bring about strategic reform? The final section in the volume explores ways to overcome the barriers and impediments that preoccupy Canadians’ concerns about healthcare. A companion volume to Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians, the contributors to Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy turn to the critical importance of how necessary healthcare changes can be best implemented.
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Indigenous Nationals, Canadian Citizens - From First Contact To Canada 150 And Beyond

by Thomas J. Courchene

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 Indigenous Nationals/Canadian Citizens begins with a detailed policy history from first contact to the Sesquicentennial with major emphasis on the evolution of Canadian policy initiatives relating to Indigenous peoples. This is followed by a focus on the
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Where To From Here? - Keeping Medicare Sustainable

by Stephen Duckett

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 The importance of universal healthcare in Canada and possible areas for improvement.
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International Perspectives - Integration And Inclusion

by John Biles

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 How the rising tide of international migration is impacting state policy across the globe.
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Measuring The Value Of A Postsecondary Education

by Ken Norrie e Mary Catharine Lennon

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 A comprehensive study of higher education practices and outcomes.
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Government-Nonprofit Relations In Times Of Recession

by Rachel Laforest

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 An exhaustive study of changing nonprofit policy issues in response to the economic recession.
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Democratic Dilemma - Reforming Canada''S Supreme Court

by Nadia Verrelli

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 An overview of the Supreme Court of Canada and the changes that need to be made.
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Politics Of Canadian Foreign Policy, Fourth Edition

by Kim Richard Nossal, Stephane Paquin e Stephane Roussel

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 The fourth edition of this widely used text includes updates about the many changes that have occurred in Canadian foreign policy under Stephen Harper and the Conservatives between 2006 and 2015. Subjects discussed include the fading emphasis on internationalism, the rise of a new foreign policy agenda that is increasingly shaped by domestic political imperatives, and the changing organization of Canada’s foreign policy bureaucracy. As in previous editions, this volume analyzes the deeply political context of how foreign policy is made in Canada. Taking a broad historical perspective, Kim Nossal, Stéphane Roussel, and Stéphane Paquin provide readers with the key foundations for the study of Canadian foreign policy. They argue that foreign policy is forged in the nexus of politics at three levels - the global, the domestic, and the governmental - and that to understand how and why Canadian foreign policy looks the way it does, one must look at the interplay of all three.
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Toward A Healthcare Strategy For Canadians

by A. Scott Carson, Jeffrey Dixon e Kim Richard Nossal

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 A comprehensive look at reforming Canada's mediocre public healthcare system from a system-wide strategic perspective.
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Water As A Social Opportunity

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 Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen’s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity. Water as a Social Opportunity conveys the idea that the ways in which society responds to water-related challenges has the potential to yield a variety of positive outcomes not just for water, or the economy, but for society more broadly. Contributors consider water issues across Canada from this original perspective, and suggest this concept as a basis for developing a long-overdue national water strategy in Canada.
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Work In A Warming World

by Carla Lipsig-Mumme e Stephen Mcbride

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts. The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change. Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy.
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Thinking Outside The Box - Innovation In Policy Ideas

by Keith G. Banting, Richard P. Chaykowski e Steven F. Lehrer

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 Building on the work presented in Styran and Taylor’s This Great National Object, which told the story of the first three Welland canals built in the nineteenth century, This Colossal Project chronicles an impressive milestone in the history of Canadian technological achievement and nation building.
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Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management - Second Edition

by Andrew Graham

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 "It''s not your money - it belongs to the people." Taking this simple axiom seriously creates unique challenges for the management of public funds. Andrew Graham outlines all aspects of public sector financial management, addressing how funds are obtained, what rules of accountability and accounting are applied, who controls public funds, what constitutes effective budget management at the operational level, and how accountability and oversight are dealt with. The skills demanded of public sector managers in financial management are becoming increasingly onerous and complex. Canadian Public Sector Financial Management will be of great help to practitioners in the public sector who wish to better understand their financial responsibilities as well as to students of public administration and the general reader concerned with public financial management issues. The secondedition of Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management updates the widely used text, reflecting on the developments in public financial management over the past six years. Developments in financial reporting and the widespread need for governments to constrain growth and manage their finances more closely are looked at. It remains focused on the practitioner and manager in the public sector.
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Multiculturalism Question - Debating Identity In 21st Century Canada

by Jack Jedwab

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 A detailed analysis of the meaning of multiculturalism in Canada.
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Paradigm Freeze - Why It Is So Hard To Reform Health Care In Canada

by Harvey Lazar, John Church, John N. Lavis e Pierre-Gerlier Forest

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 Thirty case studies of health care reform across the country.
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Intellectual Disabilities And Dual Diagnosis - An Interprofessional Clinical Guide For Healthcare Providers

by Bruce D. Mccreary e Jessica Jones

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 An indispensable survey of the definitions, assessments, and treatments of individuals with developmental disabilities.
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