In Neoliberal Parliamentarism, Tom McDowell provides an alternative approach to understanding the decline of parliament at the Ontario legislature, an approach that highlights the politics of neoliberalism and the significant impact it has had over the last four decades.McDowell offers a structural critique of parliament, claiming that restrictions on the legislature cannot be separated from the ascendance of neoliberalism as the dominant social and policy paradigm in the ...

Canada has one of the highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies. In a labour market characterized by the ongoing fallout from COVID-19, deepening income inequality, job instability, and diluted union representation, the living wage movement offers a response. Rising Up traces the history and international context of living wage movements across Canada. In the 1970s, the balance of political and economic power began to shift in favour of business, as trade ...

"BLAZING SADDLES' meets 'THE PRODUCERS"German Film Director HEINZ FANE wants to bring old JOSHUA JOHNSON out of retirement to star in a Western. Josh, was once a man who walked tall through Tombstone, now he walks with a slight stoop through the corridors of an actor's retirement home. Physically he's fine; it's just his soul that's heading for the last round up.On location, a hundred miles from the nearest town. The unit has set up in an ecological disaster area. The colle...

Highways provide the arteries of modern society. The interaction of road, rail and other transport infrastructure with the ground is unusually intimate, and thus needs to be well-understood to provide economic and reliable infrastructure for society. Challenges include not only the design of new infrastructure (often on problematic ground), but inc