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Passing the Buck? Examining Canadian Banks Approaches to Financial Exclusion
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2012-02-14)
The purpose of this report is to examine what Canadian banks say they are doing to address
financial exclusion by identifying what banks understand about its causes,
consequences, and solutions. Relevant bank-related ...
The parentage of Sir Justus Beck
(Notes & Queries / Oxford University Press, 2012-03)
This note demonstrates that Sir Justus Beck (1679–1722), 1st Baronet, was baptized 8 November 1679 at Amsterdam, as Joost, son of Jacob George Beck and Margaretha de Smeth.
Playing politics with poverty in Manitoba
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2012)
Proceedings: Preventing Evictions and Managing Successful Tenancies
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2012-05-17)
On Nov.10 2011, the Institute of Urban Studies conducted a workshop on Managing for Successful Tenancies. The goal of this workshop was to develop an eviction prevention strategy for the Mental Health Commission of Canada's ...
Dialectical Materialism and the 'Feminine Sublime'
(Subjectivity, 2012)
Drawing primarily on Slavoj Žižek’s Lacanian reading of Kant and Hegel, but also taking up arguments made by Joan Copjec and Fredric Jameson, this article asserts a conception of the ‘feminine sublime’ in accordance with ...
Making Change: The Cost of “Free”
(Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 2012)
Canadians Deserve “A Budget for the Rest of Us”
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2012)
How Well Are Poor People Served by Canadian Banks? Testing Consumer Treatment Using Mystery Shopping
(2012-02-14)
This study reports on results from a mystery shopping method that was designed to see how lowincome
people were treated by banks in a simple shopping event. Banks that were shopped
include mainstream and fringe banks. ...
Imagine Your Library’s Future: Scenario Planning for Libraries and Information Organizations
(Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2012)
"Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research" Vol. 7 no. 2 (2012): 1-3.
Budget 2012: Deficit budget creates a surplus of spin
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba (CCPA-MB), 2012)