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Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 5th Edition
Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Addressing current controversies – including the invocation of the federal Emergencies Act, the fallout from the Supreme Court’s Greenhouse Gas References, and the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown – Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 5th Edition offers ten updated chapters, all-new chapter introductions, and over two dozen new readings addressing current issues Canadian law and politics. It engages with multiple perspectives on controversial issues, juxtaposing competing perspectives to foster debate.
Taking a critical approach to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the growth of judicial power, editors F.L. Morton and Dave Snow provide an even-handed examination of the institutional implications of an increasingly-important Supreme Court of Canada. Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 5th Edition is the leading source for students, and all readers, interested in judicial power in Canada.
Taking a critical approach to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the growth of judicial power, editors F.L. Morton and Dave Snow provide an even-handed examination of the institutional implications of an increasingly-important Supreme Court of Canada. Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 5th Edition is the leading source for students, and all readers, interested in judicial power in Canada.
656 pages, Hardcover
Published June 15, 2024
About the author
F.L. Morton
5 books1 followerFrederick Lee Morton (also known as Ted Morton) is a Canadian politician and former Alberta cabinet minister. He was Progressive Conservative MLA for Foothills-Rocky View from 2004 to 2012.
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June 23, 2024
INVISIBLE LIVES by Cristalle Smith is an amazing indie CanLit poetry book! I loved these poems!
This debut collection features auto-fiction poems based on Smith’s experiences with surviving abusive relationships and growing up in poverty. The opening poem begins with a traumatic experience and throughout this book there’s a raw depiction of domestic violence and dysfunction. It’s an emotional read. My fave poems are Sinatra on Metal Rivets and Lyric Lab Report.
I loved these lines in Sinatra on Metal Rivets:
“There are steps to writing a good poem.
A Canadian poem. A womanly poem.”
I love a good Canadian womanly poem!
And I loved the form used in Lyric Lab Report and this poem also has lines about being Canadian.
Thank you to ZG Reads & University of Calgary press for my gifted review copy!
This debut collection features auto-fiction poems based on Smith’s experiences with surviving abusive relationships and growing up in poverty. The opening poem begins with a traumatic experience and throughout this book there’s a raw depiction of domestic violence and dysfunction. It’s an emotional read. My fave poems are Sinatra on Metal Rivets and Lyric Lab Report.
I loved these lines in Sinatra on Metal Rivets:
“There are steps to writing a good poem.
A Canadian poem. A womanly poem.”
I love a good Canadian womanly poem!
And I loved the form used in Lyric Lab Report and this poem also has lines about being Canadian.
Thank you to ZG Reads & University of Calgary press for my gifted review copy!
August 28, 2024
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This CanLit debut collection explores working class lives, domestic violence, childhood poverty, single motherhood, trama, life on the run and survival. It's was a raw and emotional reading experience that had me pulled in from the first page. These poems are harrowing and fueled by the lives that are invisible to so many yet relatable to too many at the same time. My favorites were Wail, and Ziplock Goldfish. The structure of these poems is not traditional, and I truly loved that about them!
For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong
#gifted @zgreads @ucalgarypress
✍🏻
This CanLit debut collection explores working class lives, domestic violence, childhood poverty, single motherhood, trama, life on the run and survival. It's was a raw and emotional reading experience that had me pulled in from the first page. These poems are harrowing and fueled by the lives that are invisible to so many yet relatable to too many at the same time. My favorites were Wail, and Ziplock Goldfish. The structure of these poems is not traditional, and I truly loved that about them!
For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong
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March 12, 2026How do poetry and lyric language sort trauma into meaningful pieces of discourse?” This question in Cristalle Smith’s “Lyric Lab Report,” from her searing debut Invisible Lives, could serve as the crux of this entire collection. As could the admission that she is “a scientist, scholar, artist, and mother. I am all things at once. My poetry is all things at once. It is only though the layering of constituent parts that resonance is achieved.”
My caveats on the book are few—mainly that the text-style exchanges between identities such as Submissiveattack and Flakjacketblitz feel out of place and also, strangely, dated, and that at times an excess of details can bog down in prosaic listing. But overall Invisible Lives is a brave and startling assemblage of admissions of abuse, neglect, recklessness and rejuvenation....
Review by Catherine Owen
Full review at https://albertaviews.ca/invisible-lives/
My caveats on the book are few—mainly that the text-style exchanges between identities such as Submissiveattack and Flakjacketblitz feel out of place and also, strangely, dated, and that at times an excess of details can bog down in prosaic listing. But overall Invisible Lives is a brave and startling assemblage of admissions of abuse, neglect, recklessness and rejuvenation....
Review by Catherine Owen
Full review at https://albertaviews.ca/invisible-lives/
July 20, 2024
This book of poetry starts out with a line that just grabs your attention. It could also be triggering so I won't share it here, but it hooked me and saddened me and had me digging into this book. It covers so many experiences, it is both hard to read and so necessary. The author shares her experiences honestly and in a way that makes you unable to put it down. It is heartbreaking and inspiring. It will stay with me.
This book covers a number of topics that may be triggering including: domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, mental health, and suicide. I would recommend this one with the above warning.
Thank you @zgreads for this beautiful gifted copy!
This book covers a number of topics that may be triggering including: domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, mental health, and suicide. I would recommend this one with the above warning.
Thank you @zgreads for this beautiful gifted copy!
July 18, 2024
In Invisible Lives, one line soars, carrying the weight of dreams.
How did the book make me feel/think?
One line in Cristalle Smith’s poetry collection, “Invisible Lives,” didn’t just jump off the page; it flew off the page, resonating loudly: “Don’t take away my bed, my father said. All I have left are my dreams.”
Whenever a writer, poet, or human has the courage to lay themselves bare and share the tumult and trauma of their life, the world becomes a better place. We are all blessed for Smith’s visceral candour. Not only did that line jump off the page, but the humanity in her lyrical prose will also warm you with the possibility of overcoming even the darkest days.
WRITTEN: 18 July 2024
How did the book make me feel/think?
One line in Cristalle Smith’s poetry collection, “Invisible Lives,” didn’t just jump off the page; it flew off the page, resonating loudly: “Don’t take away my bed, my father said. All I have left are my dreams.”
Whenever a writer, poet, or human has the courage to lay themselves bare and share the tumult and trauma of their life, the world becomes a better place. We are all blessed for Smith’s visceral candour. Not only did that line jump off the page, but the humanity in her lyrical prose will also warm you with the possibility of overcoming even the darkest days.
WRITTEN: 18 July 2024
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