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Canada's North: What's the Plan?

This book draws on the different viewpoints of three nationally renowned scholars to explore the effectiveness of land use planning in Canada’s North from three very distinct perspectives.

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Crisis and Intervention: Lessons From the Financial Meltdown and Recession

The global economy has emerged from a truly exceptional event—the first synchronized global recession since the Second World War. What’s more, the recession was caused by a financial crisis that was itself unprecedented in scale.

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21st Century Cities in Canada: The Geography of Innovation

In 21st Century Cities in Canada: The Geography of Innovation, the 2009 CIBC Scholar-in-Residence David A. Wolfe examines the social, political, and economic dimensions of Canada’s city-regions, and the way these factors influence urban development and success.

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Red Tape, Red Flags: Regulation for the Innovation Age

Since making and enforcing regulations is at least one-third of what governments do, the author argues Canada should set an annual federal regulatory agenda, like those for taxation and spending.

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Canada by Picasso: The Faces of Federalism

This collection of essays examines the future of Canadian federalism from the distinct viewpoints of the Conference Board’s first three scholars-in-residence: Janice Gross Stein, Roger Gibbins and Antonia Maioni.

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