Adult basic education transforms lives of pain and despair into lives of hope and pride. For people who are broken, defeated, and down on themselves, finishing a high school education can get them off social assistance and into work that pays a living wage. The benefits far outweigh the costs of adult basic education. It strengthens families and improves the lives of the children of adult learners, particularly those who are poor and marginalized, in ways that go beyond economics to the ve...

Poverty in Canada’s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past decade, Jim Silver argues that urban poverty today includes not only low incomes, but in all too many cases also poor housing, poor health, low educational achievement, high levels of neighbourhood violence, racism, colonialism and social exclusion. As a result many poor people experience low levels of self-esteem and self-confidence and may blame ...

Scoundrels and Shirkers examines the deep relationship between capitalism and poverty in England since the 12th century. It exposes the dynamics of capitalism, from its origins in the long transition from feudalism to its current crisis under neoliberal capitalism, in producing poverty.The book, unique in the historical breadth of its focus, shows conclusively that poverty is an inevitable consequence of capitalism. In the search for profits and control of society’s econom...

New Mexico...Facility #6…that’s the entire name…one of dozens of unknown facilities scattered across the White Sands desert. Just a solitary sign on an old telephone pole out on the highway, not enough to reveal anything about the place. 6,317 miles across the Atlantic; a near-identical facility, Proiect Balcescu, north and east of Bucharest, Romania, a few clicks from the shadows of the Fagaras Mountains. What’s going on inside both facilities is, simply put, life-changing, and classified...

✿GET HIGH NOW WITH THE BIGGEST AND SWEETEST OF BUDS and Eating The best Space-Cakes✿Marijuana is getting bad press because of its ability to negatively affect one’s behavior but, when used for the right reasons and dosage, it can have amazing benefits.According to studies, marijuana extracts can help cure over a hundred medical conditions including anxiety, pain, stress, insomnia, migraines, arthritis, ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, anorexia, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, he...

Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even appalling. The poor condition of housing for those below the poverty line adds to the weight of the complex poverty they already endure, which includes worsening health, adversely affected education and neighbourhoods that are more prone to crime and violence. Using Winnipeg, Manitoba, as an example, Poor Housing exa...

✿GET HIGH NOW WITH THE YUMMIEST AND SWEETEST OF MARIJUANA CAKES✿Marijuana is getting bad press because of its ability to negatively affect one’s behavior but, when used for the right reasons and dosage, it can have amazing benefits. According to studies, marijuana extracts can help cure over a hundred medical conditions including anxiety, pain, stress, insomnia, migraines, arthritis, ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, anorexia, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, hepatitis C,and loss of libid...

✿GET HIGH NOW WITH THE BIGGEST AND SWEETEST OF BUDS✿The basics of growing Cannabis can be easily grasped by remembering that it is a plant. Growing Marijuana outdoors is just like growing any other plant outdoors. You just plant a seed in soil and let nature take its course. Plants are not particularly designed to develop indoors. However, due to Marijuana being an extremely controlled substance, and growing it is deemed illegal in most states, growing it indoors away from prying...

Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, Aboriginal, gay and lesbian, environmental, and global justice movements reveal exactly how these g...

An unparalleled portrait of the Conservative Party and each of its nineteen leaders, Blue Thunder rollicks through 141 years of Canadian Conservative leadership.A sprawling, page-turning exposé, Blue Thunder draws upon a wealth of public and private material that Plamondon has enriched with fresh insights. Make no mistake. Blue Thunder is no hagiography. This is a warts-and-all portrait that examines in compelling and revealing detail the lows as well as the highs. Along the way m...

Renowned as a passionate Canadian, bestselling author Mel Hurtig has combed through world statistics to see how Canada really measures up — and the results are astonishing, and often shocking.This book is about how Canada has changed, very much for the worse, in the last twenty years. As a result of these profound (often hidden) changes, we are no longer the people we think we are. To take one example, the Canadian media usually leaves us with the impression that Canadians are real...

A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight of low-skilled black males, and the fragmentation of the African Ame...