Published Articles

Equality Deferred

Canada’s Rights Revolution

Notable

Human Rights or Social Justice? The Problem of Rights Inflation.” International Journal of Human Rights 22, 2 (2017): 155-60.State-Funded Feminism: A Research Note on the History of Public Funding for Canada’s Voluntary Sector.” Canadian Historical Review 103, 3 (2022): 443-69.
How the State Shaped the Nonprofit Sector: Public Funding in British Columbia.” Canadian Review of Sociology 56, 3 (2019): 299-328.The Transformation of Security Planning for the Olympics: The 1976 Montreal Games.” Terrorism and Political Violence 29, 1 (2017): 27-51.
The October Crisis of 1970: Human Rights Abuses Under the War Measures ActJournal of Canadian Studies 42, 2 (Spring 2008): 160-186.
  • “Clifford Bob – Rights as Weapons: instruments of Conflicts, Tools of Power.” (Princeton University Press, 2019). International Sociology Reviews 34, 5 (2019): 591-3.
  • “Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl E. James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos and Malinda S. Smith – The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities.” (UBC Press, 2017). Labour Le Travail 81 (2018): 285-7.
  • “Mark Frezzo – The Sociology of Human Rights(Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 2015). Canadian Journal of Sociology 40, 4 (2015): 563-5.
  • “Sonia Cardenas – Chains of Justice: The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights.” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). Human Rights Quarterly 37, 1 (2014).
  • “Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby – Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information in Canada.” (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012). Surveillance and Society 24, 4 (2014).
  • “Carmela Patrias – Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945.” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012). Labour/Le Travail 71 (Spring 2013): 255-257.
  • “Andrews S. Thompson – In Defence of Principles: NGOs and Human Rights in Canada.” (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010). Canadian Journal of Political Science 44, 4 (2012): 969-70.
  • “Joan Sangster – Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada.” (London: Pluto Press, 2009) Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme 28, 2/3 (2011): 185.
  • “Karen Dubinsky, Catherine Krull, Susan Lord, Sean Mills and Scott Rutherford, eds. – New World Coming: The Sixties and Global Consciousness” (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2009) Canadian Historical Review 93, 1 (2012): 153-155.
  • “Stephanie Bangarth – Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49” (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008) Canadian Historical Review 91, 1 (2010): 160-2.
  • “William Tetley – The October Crisis, 1970: An Insider’s View” (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006) British Journal of Canadian Studies 20, 2 (2007): 314-5.
  • “Matt James – Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics” (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 22, 1 (2007): 157-9.
  • “Derek Fudge – Collective Bargaining in Canada: Human Rights or Canadian Illusion, 2nd edition” (Black Point: Fernwood Publishing, 2006) British Journal of Canadian Studies 20, 1 (2007): 159-60.
  • “Amy Knight – How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies” (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2005) Intelligence and National Security 21, 2 (2006): 324-6.
  • “Gary Teeple – The Riddle of Human Rights (Aurora: Garamond Press 2004) Labour/Le Travail 57 (Spring 2006): 258-60.
  • “Ross Lambertson- Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960,” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) American Review of Canadian Studies 36, 1 (Spring 2006): 187-8.
  • “Pierre Boyer, Linda Cardinal, and David Headon, eds , – From Subjects to Citizens: A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada” (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004) Canadian Historical Review 87, 1 (March 2006): 138-141.
  • “Leo Driedger- Race and Ethnicity: Finding Identities and Equalities” (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2003), American Review of Canadian Studies 35, 4 (Winter 2005): 772-3.
  • “Reg Whitaker and Steve Hewitt, Canada and the Cold War” (Toronto: James Lorimer, 2003) Canadian Historical Review 85, (December 2004): 873-5.
  • “Christopher MacLennan, Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960” (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003) Labour/Le Travail 54 (Fall 2004): 278-80.
  • “Tom Warner – A History of Queer Activism in Canada” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002) Australian Canadian Studies 20, 2 (2002): 167-170.
  • “Laurel Sefton MacDowell – Renegade Lawyer: The Life of J.L. Cohen” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001) Labour/Le Travail 50 (Fall 2002): 307-9.

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