A model of the Canadian global exchange rate: A test of the 1970s

This comment points out some methodological weaknesses in the Canadian global exchange rate model and the associated efficiency tests of Marwah and Bodkin. The model is found to be inadequate for policy analysis.     

RICHARD & JUDY'S BOOK CLUB AND 'CANADA READS': Readers, books and cultural programming in a digital era

This article is a result of a transnational comparison of two broadcast book programs' influence on readers' book choices. Online surveys and focus group interviews in Canada and the UK illustrate active audience participation in the converged era of print books, the internet, television and radio. The analysis examines readers' negotiation of book choices through uses and gratifications theory as informed by a cultural critique of the programs themselves. Readers simultaneously respond to and create a hierarchy of cultural tastes that are bound up in the cultural assumptions that they have about the different media.     

加拿大的卫生政策及其对中国卫生改革的借鉴

卫生政策在改善与增进人口健康中发挥了重要作用。文章通过对加拿大卫生系统相关立法进程的系统回顾与分析,发现加拿大医疗系统的特点是公共筹资而非私人运作,而全覆盖、可携带性、综合性、可及性以及公共管理等五项基础性原则保证了加拿大卫生系统的成功运行。文章着重回答了有哪些政策可以借鉴,如何借鉴,以及哪些政策的不良后果可以避免等。     

论加拿大民族国家的形成

加拿大民族国家是从英帝国中逐渐分离出来的。自治制度是其民族国家演进的基础 ,在自治制度的保护下 ,加拿大得以发展 ;而自治制度赋予它选择自身利益的权力 ,又使其形成了自己的民族特性。英国试图通过自治制度来维系其帝国统治 ,因而不得不一再对加拿大做出让步 ,更加滋长了后者的民族主义。其结果 ,加拿大在第一次世界大战的冲击下走向成熟 ,最终突破了自治制度的框架。     

加拿大社会保障制度对中国的启示

中国的社会保障制度是当今中国社会的热点问题之一。尽管我国社会保障制度改革已经进行了近二十年,各项制度都取得了很大的进展,但总体上说还远没有达到预期的目标,进一步深化改革的道路还很长。因此,借鉴国外成功的经验,客观地评价改革的实际效果,并在此基础上深入思考中国社会保障制度未来发展的方向是一项重要的任务。与其他西方国家相比,加拿大社会保障制度除了具有体系完善、项目齐全等特点外,还特别注重与经济的协调发展,以及对社会保障制度进行科学、严谨的管理。加拿大选择了适度发展的模式,这一点对中国建设和完善社会保障制度尤其具有借鉴意义。     

Public Opposition to a Proposed Nuclear Waste Repository in Canada: An Investigation of Cultural and Economic Effects

Residents of four northern communities were surveyed about Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's proposal to site an underground repository for high-level nuclear waste somewhere in the Canadian Shield. Opposition to the repository was relatively strong in all communities, but was strongest among aboriginal respondents. Path analysis revealed that trust in nuclear regulators, faith in science and technology, and anticipated net costs were important mediators of this effect. Aboriginals were less trusting, exhibited less faith in science and technology, and perceived the costs associated with the repository to be higher than their nonaboriginal counterparts. No support was found for the hypothesis that, after controlling for aboriginal status, financially insecure individuals would display greater support for the nuclear waste repository than financially secure individuals. Policy implications for balancing perceived risks and siting needs are discussed.     

加拿大多元文化主义政策与法国多元文化主义政策对比研究

多元文化主义政策是西方国家解决国内民族问题的途径之一,不同的国家实施多元文化主义政策有着各自的特点。由于国情的差别、实施多元文化主义宗旨的不同以及实施手段的差异,多元文化主义政策在加拿大取得成功,却在法国遭到失败。不同的国家有着不同的文化、历史、民族构成等不同的国情,民族问题的实质也不尽相同,因而解决民族问题的方法和手段也不能盲目套用。     

‘Escaping’ managed labour migration: worker exit as precarious migrant agency

ABSTRACT

This article narrows in on the mundane yet extraordinary events surrounding migrant farm workers’ decisions to leave their state-approved employment and to seek a better life in Canada outside of state-managed circulatory labour migration. In so doing, this research contributes to conceptualisations of precarity, and of precarious status in particular, that are beginning to recognise its effects not only on workers’ economic survival, but also the more ordinary daily conditions surrounding workers’ sense belonging and personal autonomy. In their refusal to accept the terms of their contractual circulatory labour migration agreements through what is conceptualised here as an act of ‘escape’, workers claim a space of belonging that contradicts the precarity of their formal citizenship status. In carving out a space in which they may perform autonomy and self-determination in daily life, however, this rejection of contingent citizenship status intensifies the precarious material conditions governing workers’ relationship to the state.     

Calibrating the go-along for the Anthropocene

ABSTRACT

This article contends that the ‘go-along’ contains more technical and ontological agility as a methodology for social research than is often assumed. After distinguishing the central spectrums of technical and ontological agility rooted in different research designs and philosophical orientations, I examine how researchers can nourish it while refining the go-along’s moral purpose in the context of environmental and related mobility crises that define the Anthropocene. I argue researchers can cultivate the go-along’s agility and moral purpose by deploying it with a quantitative context, comparing go-along case studies, moving past human supremacism and illuminating ecologically just forms of mobility that respect other species of life and their habitats. To show one way that the go-along can accomplish these things, I present two vignettes of cycling in urban Canada, drawing on a mobile video ethnography of cycling, a funded study in sociology, conducted between 2014 and 2018.