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World Beyond the Waves
A storm at sea sweeps Sam out of her sorrow-filled life into a strange and haunting refuge, a world beyond the waves. Thrown from the boat, through the roiling water, our 12-year-old heroine lands where people have never been before. Sam is invited, warily at first, to bear witness to the struggle for survival of the sea and its many creatures, in this their haven. But the world beyond the waves and its wondrous creates, including dolphins, a gorgeous orca, a mama manatee and her offspring, a shy turtle, an elder dinosaur fish and a comic tropic bird, face a threat to their lives that Sam must race to overcome. Through the wizardry and wonder of this spot and its spirit, Sam uncovers the secret to their survival and her soul.
Deep Blue Sea
Meredith's in danger. Clara’s actions have broken Meredith’s heart, and put her and Sukey in Kempton’s path. While on a long voyage aboard the luxurious cruise ship the "MV Albion" to escape Kempton's clutches, Meredith met Captain Raphael Maynard and fell in love with him. The Captain has been patient with Meredith although he knows nothing of her past. He broke through her inhibitions to show her how pleasurable and joyful sex can be. When her Aunt Clara found out she whisked the family off the ship in Perth, Western Australia. However, waiting there in Australia for Meredith’s arrival was Kempton. What is Kempton planning now that he’s caught up with Meredith in Perth? How is Meredith going to carry on now that her first love, Captain Maynard, has sailed away out of her life?
Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the worlds indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, environment and way of life through outside factors such as climate change and globalization, their rights in these and other respects are still not fully recognized in international law. In this incisive book, Laura Westra deftly reveals the lethal effects that damage to ecological integrity can have on communities. Using examples in national and international case law, she demonstrates how their lack of sufficient legal rights leaves indigenous peoples defenceless, time and again, in the face of governments and businesses who have little effective ...
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Against the People
The election of the Doug Ford–led Progressive Conservatives unleashed an aggressive and undisguised market fundamentalism. Ford’s government has taken the assault against the social welfare state, labour and environmental protections to new and unprecedented heights. Maintaining a permanent era of austerity has not only steadily reduced the public sector as a proportion of the provincial economy but has also reduced the social protections available to Ontarians. Ford’s deregulatory agenda has explicitly degraded the quality of social provisioning and eroded labour rights to the benefit of business. From undermining the fiscal capacity to fund program expenditures adequately to reducing...
Alliances
When Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists work together, what are the ends that they seek, and how do they negotiate their relationships while pursuing social change? Alliances brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, activists, and scholars in order to examine their experiences of alliance-building for Indigenous rights and self-determination and for social and environmental justice. The contributors, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, come from diverse backgrounds as community activists and academics. They write from the front lines of struggle, from spaces of reflection rooted in past experiences, and from scholarly perspectives that use emerging theories to understand c...
Human Rights
International law has evolved to protect human rights. But what are human rights? Does the term have the same meaning in a world being transformed by climate change and globalized trade? Are existing laws sufficient to ensure humanity’s survival? Drawing on case law and practice and examples from philosophy, law, and ecology, Laura Westra argues that the current system is not adequate: international law privileges individual over collective rights, permitting multinational corporations to overlook the collectivity and the environment in their quest for wealth and power. Unless policy makers redefine human rights and reformulate environmental law and policies to protect the preconditions for life itself -- water, food, clean air, and biodiversity -- humankind faces the complete loss of the ecological commons, the preservation of which is one of our most basic human rights. A new kind of cosmopolitanism, one centred on the United Nations, offers the best hope for preserving our common heritage and the survival of future generations.
No Means No - Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and the Fight for Indigenous Resource Sovereignty
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, , course: Indigenous, Protest, Canada, Mining, language: English, abstract: In 2006, the remote Ontario First Nation of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) said no to a mining company, was sued for $10 billion, had its leaders found in contempt of court and jailed but eventually prevailed when, three years later, the Ontario government paid the company $5 million to go away. This is how it happened.
Between State and Market
Between State and Market surveys and critiques the existing literature on charities law as well as the laws themselves. The authors offer policy prescriptions for the future of an increasingly vital sector of Canadian society. The first section of the book contains an overview of the charitable sector in Canada, a sociological review of altruism in different societies, a discussion of altruism in various philosophical and religious traditions, an economic analysis of "rational voluntarism," and an assessment of the relationship between the charitable sector and the welfare state. The second section contains five papers on the legal definition of charity, both general (the jurisprudence of th...
