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THE PUBLICATION OF DOCTOR KINNARI I. Bhatt's first book, Concessionaires, Financiers and Communities: Implementing Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Land in Transnational Development Projects ("Concessionaires"), comes at a time of uncertainty for the field of Aboriginal law in Canada and across the globe. To contextualize the key themes found throughout Concessionaires, and to provide a basis upon which my critiques shall be built, it is important to briefly detail recent developments in Aboriginal law in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These different processes led to significant variations in labor policy regimes and labor movements, resulting in "the class idea" being built not only into the Canadian labor movement but also into Canadian political and policy institutions. He therefore poses three questions: Why did the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and its successor the New Democratic Party (NDP) emerge as a labor party as opposed to US labor's commitment to the Democratic Party? To put it simply, "the Canadian labor regime legitimized class issues and facilitated addressing them", but "the US labor regime delegitimized class issues and prevented [attempts at] addressing them" (255). [Extracted from the article]

In I Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada, i Julie Guard adds to the growing scholarship on food protests and politics. Guard is a professor of labor studies at the University of Manitoba and has been researching the food protests of Canada for many years. At the heart of this well-researched monograph is Guard's effort to "interrogate" the complex relationships between the Housewives Consumers Association (HCA) and the Communist Party. [Extracted from the article]

In I They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada i , Cecil Foster argues that Canada's branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was instrumentally involved in forging a more equitable and inclusive nation. In the period covered by Foster, from World War I through the late 1960s, the civil rights movement in Canada had many similarities and notable differences with the one in the United States. Foster's I They Call Me George i is an important contribution to the historiography of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the civil rights movement in Canada. [Extracted from the article]