Chapter 2: Media and Public Discourse: Their Roles in Policy-Making 

Books and Articles

Bouvier, G. (2015). What is a discourse approach to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media: connecting with other academic fields? Journal of Multicultural Discourse, 10(2), 145–162.

Fleras, A. (2012). The media gaze: Representations of diversities in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Wilson B., & VanLuijk, N. (2018, November). Covering protest at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics: A ‘peace journalism’ inspired analysis. Sociology of Sport Journal, 1-55.

Videos

Herman, E.S. (Producer) & Chomsky, N. (Director) (1988). Manufacturing consent: The political economy of the mass media. London: Vintage.

Hans, B, Moritz, R. (Producers) & Beetz, C. (Director) (2018). The cleaners [Documentary]. Cologne: Beetz Filmproduktion.

Fitzgerald, L. (Producer) & Clydon, S. (Director) (2019). Shattered [Documentary]. Toronto: Ryerson Journalism Research Centre.

Peabody, F., Raymont, P., & Munger, A. (Producers) & Ord, S. (Director) (2016). All governments lie: Truth, deception, and the spirit of I. F. Stone [Documentary]. Toronto: White Pine Pictures.

Walker, K. (Producer) & Stevens, S. (Director) (2015). Sexual violence, social media, and society: Is Canada facing a crisis? [Documentary]. Ottawa: CPAC.

Websites

Journal devoted to research and scholarship in the field of communication studies 

Alternative News

Canadian Dimension: www.canadiandimension.com/

Rabble.ca www.rabble.ca

Chapter 3: Ideas and Social Policy 

Book

Finkel, A. (2018). Compassion: A global history of social policy. Red Globe Press.

Journal

Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale https://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/index

Websites

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives https://www.policyalternatives.ca/

Status of Women Canada (Department for Women and Gender Equality) https://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca

Department of Human Resources and Social Development Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development.html

Chapter 4: The Ideals and Realities of Policy-Making Processes and Structures in Canada 

Federal Party Websites

Bloc Québécois www.blocquebecois.org/

Green Party of Canada https://www.greenparty.ca/en

People’s Party of Canada https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/

Books and Articles

Chretien, J. (2018). My stories, my times. Translated by S. Fischman & D. Winkler. Toronto ON: Penguin Random House Canada.

Harper, S. (2018). Right here, right now: Politics and leadership in the age of destruction. Toronto ON: Signal Books.

Lavigne, B. (2013). Building the orange wave: The inside story behind the historic rise of Jack Layton and the NDP. Toronto ON: Douglas & McIntyre.

Website

Federal Election Debate – Munk Debates, September 28, 2015 https://www.munkdebates.com/The-Debates/Federal-Election-Debate

Chapter 5: Making Canadians Richer and Poorer: Taxation, Spending, and Budgeting 

Book and Articles

Graham, K.A. and Maslove, A.M., (2018). How Ottawa spends, 2018–2019: Next?

Foster, K. and Krawchenko, T. (2016), How policy can support intergenerational equity, Policy Options, http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2016/how-policy-can-support-intergenerational-equity/

Stanford, J. (2015). Economics for everyone: A short guide to the economics of capitalism (2nd ed). Halifax: Fernwood.

Video

RSA Animate (2010), The Crisis of Capitalism by David Harvey.

Database

OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX), http://www.oecd.org/els/soc/expenditure.htm

Podcast

Faiza Shaheen and Lauren Greenfield. Inequality and Generation Wealth, RSA Animate, https://polarised.simplecast.fm/inequality-and-generation-wealth

Chapter 6: Social Policy and Indigeneity: Internal Colonization and the Canadian State 

Books

Anderson, M. C., & Robertson, C. L. (2011). Seeing red: A history of Natives in Canadian newspapers. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.

Milloy, J. S. (1999). A national crime: The Canadian government and the residential school system. University of Manitoba Press.

Miller, J. R. (2018). Skyscrapers hide the heavens: A history of Native-newcomer relations in Canada, 4th ed. University of Toronto Press.

Websites

Assembly of First Nations http://www.afn.ca/Home/

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs https://www.canada.ca/en/crown-indigenous-relations-northern-affairs.html

First Nations Child and Family Caring Society http://www.fncfcs.com/

Indigenous Services Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/indigenous-services-canada.html

National Association of Friendship Centres https://nafc.ca/en/friendship-centres/

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls http://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/

Reporting in Indigenous Communities http://riic.ca/

Videos

Low, C. (1960). Circle of the sun. National Film Board of Canada. 29 minutes.

Barbara Hager (2017) 1491: The untold story of the Americas before Columbus.

  • Television Series based on the book by Charles C. Mann 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus (Knopf, 2005). The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN).

Chapter 7: Race, Racialization, and Racism: Social Policy and the Making of a White Settler Society 

Videos

Cameron, F. (2006). (Producer/Director) Internment camp [Documentary]. British Colombia: Canadian Motion Pictures

Cole, D. (Producer) & Officer, C. (Director). (2019). The skin we’re in [Documentary]. Toronto: CBC Docs.

Fukushima, M. (Producer/Director) (1992). Minoru: Memory of exile [Feature Film]. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada

Harwood, A. (2004). True Canadians [Television Series Episode: Hot topics]. Toronto: CBC

King-Chigbo, K (Producer) & McTair, R (Director). (2000). Journey to justice. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada

MacKenzie, S. (Producer/Director) (1991). Remember Africville [Documentary]. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada.

Pounder, C. H., Adelman, L., Cheng, J., Herbes-Sommers, C., Strain, T. H. (2003). Race: The power of an illusion. California Newsreel.

St. John, M. (Producer/Director). Colonization road [Documentary]. Toronto: Canadian Council for the Arts.

Chapter 8: Women, Intersecting Oppressions, and Social Policy in Canada 

Article

Morton, K. A. (2016). Hitchhiking and missing and murdered Indigenous women: A critical discourse analysis of billboards on the Highway of Tears. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 41(3), 299–326.

Videos

Cho, K. (Producer/Director) (2012). Status Quo? The unfinished business of feminism in Canada [Documentary]. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada.

Jacoba, A. Congdon, J. Dietrich, C. Raskin, J (Producers) & Newsome, J. (Director) (2011). Miss Representation [Documentary]. California: The Representation Project.

Smiley, M. (Producer/Director) (2014). Highway of Tears. Montreal: Finesse Films.

McGuire, P. Ratchford, S. (Producers/Directors) Abortion access in the Maritimes. Toronto: Vice Canada Reports.

Showker, K. (Producer/Director) (2017). Slut or nut: Diary of a rape trial [Documentary]. Florida: ADJ Films.

Chapter 9: Sexual and Gender Diversity 

Books and Articles

Hillock, S. & Mulé, N.J. (Eds.) (2016). Queering social work education. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

O’Neill, B.J., Swan, T.A. & Mulé, N.J. (Eds.) (2015). LGBTQ people and social work: Intersectional perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

Mulé, N.J. (2010). Same-sex marriage and Canadian relationship recognition – One step forward, two steps back: A critical liberationist perspective, The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services (special issue), 22(1–2), 74–90.

Websites

ILGA - The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association https://ilga.org/

OutRight Action International https://www.outrightinternational.org/

EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust https://egale.ca/

Queer Ontario http://queerontario.org/

Chapter 10: (dis)Ability Policy: A Tangled Web of Complexity 

Articles

Bond, R. & McColl, M. (2013). A review of disability policy in Canada (2nd ed.). Canadian Disability Policy Alliance. Retrieved from http://www.disabilitypolicyalliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Disability-Policy-Scan-2013.pdf

Myers, M., MacDonald, J., Jacquard, S., and Macneil, M. (2014). (dis)Ability and postsecondary education: One woman’s experiences. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 27(1), 73–87.

Carter, I, Hanes, R., and MacDonald, J. (2012). Trials and tribulations of the Persons with Disability Caucus of the Canadian Association for Social Work Education. Canadian Disability Studies Journal, 1(1), 109–142.

Web Sites

British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS) http://www.bcands.bc.ca

Council of Canadians with Disabilities. http://www.ccdonline.ca/en/

Disability-Related Policy Web Site, designed by the Disability and Information Technologies (Dis-IT) Research Alliance. http://www.disabilitypolicy.ca/index_english.php

Video

Pro Infirmis. (2013, December 2). Because who is perfect. Running time: 4.28 minutes. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8umFV69fNg

Chapter 11: Child and Youth Policy: Building Equality or Buttressing Inequities? 

Books and Articles

Raby, R. (2014). Children's participation as neo-liberal governance? Discourse, 35(1), 77.

Talaga, T. (2018). All our relations: Finding the path forward. CBC Massey Lectures: Anansi Press. Listen online at: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2018-cbc-massey-lectures-all-our-relations-finding-the-path-forward-1.4763007

Websites

Building a youth policy for Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/youth/programs/policy.html

Caring for kids new to Canada: A guide for health professionals working with immigrant and refugee children and youth. https://www.kidsnewtocanada.ca/health-promotion/youth-resources

The Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC) http://www.saravyc.ubc.ca/2018/05/06/trans-youth-health-survey/

Video

Obomsawin, A. (Writer, Director, Producer) & Clarke, A. (Executive Producer) (2016). We can’t make the same mistake twice. Canada: National Film Board. Running time: 2 hours 43 minutes https://www.nfb.ca/film/we_can_t_make_the_same_mistake_twice/

Chapter 12: Post-Secondary Education Policy in Canada: Merit, Right, or Social Investment? 

Books and Articles

Berg, M. & Seeber, B.K. (2016). The slow professor: Changing the culture of speed in the university. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Bruneau, W. & Savage, D. (2002). Counting out the scholars: The case against performance indicators in higher education. Toronto: Lorimer.

Hardin, J. (2017, March 16). The case for renewal in post-secondary education/Le bien-fondé du renouvellement de l’éducation postsecondaire. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/case-renewal-post-secondary-education

Videos

Deal, C., Lessin, T. & Moore, M. (Producers), & Moore, M. (Director). (2015). Where to invade next. (Motion Picture). United States: Dog Eat Dog Films. Running time: 2 hours Generation Jobless (2013). Doc Zone CBC. 43 minutes. https://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episodes/generation-jobless

Website

Canadian Federation of Students/Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants https://cfs-fcee.ca/

Chapter 13: Homelessness and Housing Insecurity: Government Inaction in the Creation of a Major Crisis 

Books and Articles

Gaetz, S. (2014). Coming of age: Reimagining the response to youth homelessness in Canada. Toronto: The Canadian Homelessness Research Network Press.

Gaetz, S., Dej. E., Richter, T. & Redman, M. (2016). The state of homelessness in Canada 2016. Toronto: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press.

Kading, T. & Walmsley, C. (2018). Homelessness in small cities: The abdication of federal responsibility in small cities, big issues: Reconceiving community in a neoliberal age. Athabasca, University of Athabasca Press. Available at http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120265

Murphy, B. (2000). On the street: How we created the Homeless. J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing.

Schwan, K. (2016). Why don’t we do something? The societal problematization of “homelessness” and the relationship between discursive framing and social change. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Available at https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/76837

Websites

The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness http://caeh.ca/

Canadian Housing and Renewal Association https://chra-achru.ca/en

The Homeless Hub http://www.homelesshub.ca

Videos

Beyond Housing https://www.storyhive.com/project/show/id/3601

National Film Board – Here at Home https://www.nfb.ca/interactive/here_at_home/

Raising the Roof “Humans for Humans” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN2HHfn-3zo

Red Button: Homeless Youth https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/red-button-homeless-youth

Chapter 14: Reaching beyond Hunger: The Right to Food and Food Sovereignty 

Books and Articles

Civil Society Report on the use and implementation of the Right to Food Guidelines, October, 2018. http://www.csm4cfs.org/civil-society-report-use-implementation-right-food-guidelines/

De Schutter, Olivier. (2014). Final report: The transformative potential of the right to food. Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to the 25th session of the Human Rights Council, UN doc. A/HRC/25/57 (24 January 2014)

Desmarais, A.A., Wiebe, N., and Wittman, H. (Eds.). (2011) Food sovereignty in Canada: Creating just and sustainable food systems. Halifax: Fernwood.

Websites

International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) http://www.ipes-food.org

Food Secure Canada https://foodsecurecanada.org/

Video

Dr. Valerie Tarasuk BIG (Basic Income Guarantee) Conference, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWypM9uHD30 Running time - 35:27 minutes

Chapter 15: Canadian Health-Care Policy: Gaps, Inequalities, and Solutions 

Books and Articles

Browne, A. J., Varcoe, C. M., Wong, S. T., Smye, V. L., Lavoie, J., Littlejohn, D., . . . Lennox, S. (2012). Closing the health equity gap: Evidence-based strategies for primary health care organizations. International Journal for Equity in Health, 11(59), 1–15.

Carr, T., Teucher, U. C., & Casson, A. G. (2014). Time while waiting: Patients’ experiences of scheduled surgery. Qualitative Health Research, 24(12), 1673–1685.

Guruge, S., Thomson, M. S., & Seifi, S. G. (2015). Mental health and service issues faced by older immigrants in canada: A scoping review. Canadian Journal on Aging, 34(4), 431–444.

Raphael, D., ed. (2012) Tackling health inequalities: Lessons from international experiences. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars Press.

Van Wagner, V., Osepchook, C., Harney, E., Crosbie, C., & Tulugak, M. (2012). Remote midwifery in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada: Outcomes of perinatal care for the Inuulitsivik Health Centre, 2000–2007. Birth, 39(3), 230–237.

Zuberi, D. (2013). Cleaning up: How hospital outsourcing is hurting workers and endangering patients. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Reports

Macdonald, D., & Sanger, T. (2018). A prescription for savings: Federal revenue options for pharmacare and their distributional impacts on households, businesses and governments. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Retrieved December 12, 2018, from https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2018/12/Prescription%20for%20Savings.pdf

Chapter 16: Justice for Whom? The Effect of Criminalization for Marginalized Peoples 

Books and Articles

Brooks, C. & Schissel, B. (Eds.) (2015). Marginality and criminalization: A critical introduction to criminology (3rd ed.). Halifax, NS: Fernwood.

Chan, W., & Chunn, D. (2014). Racialization, crime, and criminal justice in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Comack, E. (2012). Racialized policing: Aboriginal people’s encounters with the police. Winnipeg, MB: Fernwood.

Doyle, A. & Moore, D. (Eds.) (2011). Critical criminology in Canada: New voices, new directions. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. New York: Vintage.

Razack, S. (2015). Dying from improvement: Inquests and inquiries into Indigenous deaths in custody. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Chapter 17: Nationalism, Neo-Liberalism, and the Securitization of Canadian Immigration Policy 

Book

Kazimi, A. (2011). Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre.

Videos

Beital, D. (Producer). Wilson, D. (Director) (1998). Asylum. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada.

Kazimi, A. (Producer/ Director) (2005). Continuous journey. VTape.

Lee, A (Producer). Delmos, M. (2008). Everybody's children [Documentary]. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada.

Paterson, J. (Producer/Director). (2011) From c to c: Chinese Canadian stories of migration [Documentary]. Toronto: CBC.

Smith, N (Producer). Grana, P. (Director). (2015). Welcome to Canada: Based on the real story of Tamil refugees in 1986 [Documentary]. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada.

Sook Lee, M. (Producer/Director). (2016). Migrant dreams [Documentary]. Toronto: TVOntario.

Sook Lee, M. (Producer/Director). (2003). El contracto [Documentary]. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada.

Stetsko, M & Lukey, E. (Producer/Directors) (2017). Alaa [Documentary]. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada.

Website

Government of Canada Citizenship and Immigration: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/immigration-citizenship.html

Chapter 18: The Role of Policy in Sustaining or Eliminating Poverty 

Books and Articles

Harding, R. (2016). Limited and limiting conversations about the poor: Elizabethan prescriptions to poverty in the Canadian press. Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale, 76, 25–51.

Raphael, D. (2011). Poverty in Canada: Implications for health and quality of life (2nd. ed.). Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

Silver, J. (2014). About Canada: Poverty. Halifax: Fernwood.

Websites

Canada without Poverty http://www.cwp-csp.ca/

Canadians for Tax Fairness http://www.taxfairness.ca/

Kela: Social Insurance Institution of Finland https://www.kela.fi/web/en

Video

Deal, C., Lessin, T. & Moore, M. (Producers), & Moore, M. (Director). (2015). Where to Invade Next. (Motion Picture). United States: Dog Eat Dog Films. Running time: 2 hours

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