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This paper aims to explore—in a broad and preliminary way—the nature and impacts of two recent federal initiatives related to university research, namely the creation of the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Canada Research Chairs Program. After describing and highlighting key features of these initiatives, the paper examines how they are helping to reorganize social relations within and between universities, government, the private sector, and the general public. It also considers some implications of these changes for the various parties involved, as a means of informing the latter's discussions of, and responses to, these unique and significant developments in Canadian higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on research examining prospective and established teachers' conceptualization and practice of antiracism pedagogy. Views reveal great variability in pedagogical and ideological positions that include unexamined assumptions about students' differential commitments to education across racial and ethnic groups, and fear of abandoning an unnamed Canadian norm. To challenge teachers' conceptualization and practice of antiracism, this study systematically develops transformative possibilities for a teacher education praxis designed to link other social movements for social justice issues. The authors suggest moving the issues of social difference, race and antiracism into mainstream scholarship, ensuring teacher commitment to the cause of social justice and engaging participants in critical reflective practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the pro-family movement in Canada. The pro-family movement organized in Canada in 1983 around a number of symbolic issues related to a defense of the traditional family and conservative moral values. This paper explores the likelihood of the pro-family leadership succeeding in this endeavor. To this end, the origins and the ideological development of the movement are discussed and empirical data on the socio-demographic background and the political beliefs of the membership are presented. In light of these data, the movement's potential to generate a consensus among its membership in support of a broad attack on social services and welfare spending is explored. Linked to the question of national impact is a prior question of mobilization. While the literature on social movements is rich in theories concerning how movements get started, there is little to guide explorations of the maintenance and reactivation of membership commitment -- especially when leaders of existing movements attempt to redefine the groups and social influences that are to be opposed.

This paper examines feminist social movements in both the United States and Canada and describes and analyses the anti-feminist countermovements that have repeatedly arisen in response to them. The dialectical relationship that has existed between these movements for the last century is documented in an effort to further understand the nature and character of these two groups. Specific attention is paid to the role of the pro-family movement in Canada in opposing contemporary feminist goals. It is shown that an interdependence has developed - with the formulation of sophisticated programs, ideologies and strategies on both sides - as the struggle for dominance has intensified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]