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This paper examines how hockey is used to construct and demarcate the Canadian national community from external others, namely, the USA, Europe and Russia/USSR. The paper suggests popular nationalist narratives around the sport of hockey construct difference from external others in ways that place them in tension with state and corporate interests. Drawing on the concept of everyday nationalism, this article explores how the interplay between international competition, national identity and commercial sport has made hockey an ambiguous and contested national symbol in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Recent research points to a growing gap between immigrant and native-born outcomes in the Canadian labour market at the same time as selection processes emphasize recruiting highly educated newcomers. Drawing on interviews with well-educated men and women who migrated from countries in sub-Saharan Africa, this paper explores the gendered processes that produce weak economic integration in Canada. Three-quarters of research participants experienced downward occupational mobility, with the majority employed in low-skilled, low-wage, insecure forms of 'survival employment'. In a gendered labour market, where common demands for 'Canadian experience', 'Canadian credentials' and 'Canadian accents' were uneven across different sectors of the labour market, women faced particular difficulties finding 'survival employment'; in the long run, however, women's greater investment in additional post-secondary education within Canada placed them in a somewhat better position than men. The policy implications of this study are fourfold: first, we raise questions about the efficacy of Canadian immigration policies that prioritize the recruitment of well-educated immigrants without addressing the multiple barriers that result in deskillling; second, we question government policies and settlement practices that undermine more equitable economic integration of immigrants; third, we address the importance of tackling the 'everyday racism' that immigrants experience in the Canadian labour market; and finally, we suggest the need to re-think narrowly defined notions of economic integration in light of the gendered nature of contemporary labour markets, and immigrants' own definitions of what constitutes meaningful integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The evolution of measured poverty may reflect socio-economic developments, particular measurement choices or the effect (or lack of effect) of policy initiatives. We report a "case study" of child poverty in Canada between 1986 and 2000, a period when the elimination of child poverty was a stated policy goal, but reported child poverty rates did not change significantly. We find that the apparent persistence of child poverty in Canada is remarkably robust to measurement choices, and cannot easily be explained by socioeconomic developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses racial hierarchy in Canada and socio economic opportunities being linked with ethnic and racial considerations. It is stated that whites and Europeans are at the top while aboriginals are at the bottom. Social and economic conditions of Black Canadians have been highlighted. Multiculturalism has been discussed. Canadian political philosopher Will Kymlicka's theory has been elaborated.

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The author reflects on practices and meaning of inheritance law and history of the regulation of polygamous marriage in Canada. It states that the inheritance could be material and ethical, personal and political, memory and identity, that rules of inheritance differ between societies, and have changed over time.

The article presents a research note on the subject of the 45th anniversary of the founding of the journal "Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie." The author presents an empirical analysis of articles that were published in the journal and also compares articles published in the "Canadian Review of Sociology" with those that were published in the "Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie." Finally, the author presents the role of the journal in the transfer of knowledge to the public and political actors responsible for public policy planning.

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Presents the importance of literature on Aboriginal people in Canada. Dispossession of Aboriginal peoples from their land and rights; Attempts to contest and redefine Aboriginal people's places in contemporary Canadian society; Strategies which transformed Aboriginal peoples and their lands; Challenges to Canadian geographers.

The article focuses on the sociological aspects of upper Canada in the early 19th century. The concentration of general studies of state formation usually focuses on broader aspects such as nation states, thereby ignoring the sub-national levels. this study takes into account the unattended smaller local state formation in order to draw attention to geographic variation and historical change in struggles to represent or challenge power relations through political forms. It provides a detailed study of the local political formation in the state of York/Toronto as a White settlement, which was based on the suppression and replacement of earlier forms of communal property relations and on the exclusion of native people from their land. By the time Toronto was born, English political institutions and capitalist market relations were displacing earlier forms of decision-making, land use and economic interaction in its immediate vicinity. Local state formation then, was about struggles over how and where different groups of people can live and work.

The article offers information on the experiment referred as the Corporate Assignment Program (CAD) conducted by the Statistics Canada on 1983 in Canada. According to the author, the experiment is designed to create a pool of employees capable of undertaking short-term priority projects within the department. He added that the director of Corporate Assignment Division (CAD) Mr. Alexander Martin has published a brief note outlining the objectives of the program and describing results obtained during its first year of operation. He emphasized that the principal achievement of the CAD program is injecting mobility and staffing flexibility within a highly structured, large-scale organization during a protracted period of restraint.

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Discusses the debates in critical social geography and the contributions of Marxist, feminist and post-modern perspectives to rethinking the structure-agency question in Canada. Outline of significant changes in conceptualizing structure and agency; Details on the significance and role of human agency and social organization of `structures'; Details of how the concepts of structure and agency have been used in geographic research.

Examines the Report of the National Advisory Board on Science and Technology (NABST), which highlighted the deteriorating research infrastructure and technical support in Canadian universities, engineering, natural science and social science. Percentage of research and development projects which are financed by the government; Details on a national system of innovation and how it is going to work.