Canadian Commentaries

Canadian-Commentaries

Published in conjunction with the Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Commentaries features prominent writers exploring key issues affecting Canadians and the world. A lead essay commissioned by the LRC becomes the ground for responses by others, opening a place for a spectrum of views and debate.

We welcome manuscripts from Canadian authors. For further information, please contact the Series Editor:

Dr. Janice Gross Stein
Director, Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, ON Canada M5S 3K7
Phone: (416) 946-8908
Fax: (416) 946-8915
Email: j.stein@utoronto.ca

Debating Rights Inflation in Canada

By Dominique Clément
Subjects: Law, Social Science, Sociology
Series: Canadian Commentaries

Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that ...

Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

Edited by Alex Himelfarb & Jordan Himelfarb
Subjects: Political Science, Business & Economics
Series: Canadian Commentaries

Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship ...

Rites of Way

Edited by Mark Kingwell & Patrick Turmel
Subjects: Social Science, Urban Studies, Art, Cultural Studies
Series: Canadian Commentaries

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; ...

Uneasy Partners

By David Robertson Cameron, Haroon Siddiqui, Janice Stein, John Ibbitson, John Meisel, Michael Valpy, and Will Kymlicka
Introduction by Honourable Frank Iacobucci
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Political Science
Series: Canadian Commentaries

After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as ...