Welcome to issue 76 of The Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale, continuing our engagement with progressive scholarship and research on Canadian social policy! We hope you are challenged by these critical explorations of Canadian social policies.

Bienvenue au volume 76 de la Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale/ Canadian Review of Social Policy, où nous continuons notre engagement avec la politique sociale progressive canadienne! Nous espérons que ces explorations critiques de politique sociales canadiennes vous interpelleront.

Nous vous invitons à le lire ici/We invite you to read it here: 

Editorial by Wendy McKeen.

Articles:

Motherhood and Unemployment: Intersectional Experiences from Canada, by Dr. Leslie J. Nichols

Limited and Limiting Conversations about the Poor: Elizabethan Prescriptions to Poverty in the Canadian Press, by Dr. Robert Harding, University of the Fraser Valley

L’engagement politique et militant de la Coalition pour l’équité salariale : analyse de la lutte de reconnaissance des emplois de proximité occupés par les femmes au Nouveau-Brunswick, par Lise Savoie et Dr. Marie-Andrée Pelland, Universite de Moncton

The case of Ashley Smith: Policy window or policy failure? Dr. Dawn Onishenko and Julie Erbland,  Ryerson University

Housing and Stress: Examining the physical and mental health differences between homeless and formerly homeless individuals, by Kristen A Desjarlais-deKlerk

Commentary:

For Professional Educators, What Is ‘Meaningful Collaboration’? by Dr. J.C. Blokhuis, University of Waterloo.

Book Reviews/Recensions

A book review by Dr. Tobin LeBlanc Haley: “Disability, Right Monitoring, and Social Change: Building Power Out of Evidence" (2015) Edited by Marcia H. Rioux, Paula C. Pinto and Gillian Parekh. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press.

A book review by Nicole Leach: "Purchase for Profit: Public-private partnerships and Canada's health care system" (2015) by Heather Whiteside, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

 "CRSP is pleased to launch our first issue devoted to the scholarship of graduate students in Social Policy / Social Work.   

 The articles in this issue demonstrate a keen commitment to social policy and equity issues in relation to how history, culture, workers, and youth are positioned and shaped to keep dominant voices, ideas and actors at the helm of public life."  

"RCPS est ravie de présenter sa toute première édition dédiée au travail de recherché des étudiants de cycles supérieurs en politique sociale et en travail social. 

Les articles dans cette édition démontrent un engagement indéfectible pour la politique sociale et les questions d’équité reliées à l’histoire, à la culture, aux travailleuses et travailleurs, et aux jeunes qui sont positionnés et configurés afin de garder les voix, les idées, et les acteurs dominants en charge de la vie publique." 

- Anne O'Connell, Co-Editor, Special Issue 75

Articles:

“The brains of a nation”: The eugenicist roots of Canada’s mental health field and the building of a white non-disabled nation by Edward Hon-Sing Wong

http://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40261

(Re)constructing and (re)habilitating the disabled body: World War One era disability policy and its enduring ramifications by AJ Withers

http://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40241

“Journey to Freedom Day Act”: The making of the Vietnamese subject in Canada and the erasure of the Vietnam War by Anh Ngo

http://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40262

Inspection, policing, and racism: How municipal by-laws endanger the lives of Chinese sex workers in Toronto by Elene Lam

http://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40263

Affirmative governmentality and the politics of youth inclusion: A critical analysis of youth voice and engagement in dominant political discourse in Ontario by Maria Bernard

http://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40264

Book Review/Recension

What's happened to politics? By Bob Rae, Simon &Schuster, 2015, by Irena Djukic

http://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40265

Editorial/ Éditorial by Anne O'Connell

http://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/4026

The special issue can be previewed for a short time online here: http://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/issue/view/2310

You also can subscribe to our journal online with an individual ($60/yr) student ($30/yr) or institutional ($150/yr) subscription.

We would like to thank the dedicated work of our anonymous reviewers who made this issue's publication possible, as well as the School for Social Work and York University for providing in-kind support without which we could not function.

We hope you enjoy this issue of emerging and challenging research in social policy.

Finally, but not least we would like to thank you, our readers, for continuing to support progressive social policy researh and scholarship in Canada.

Cath Duchastel de Montrouge

Managing Editor

Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale

Welcome to issue 74 of The Canadian Review of Social Policy/ Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale, continuing our engagement with progressive scholarship and research on Canadian social policy! In this general issue 74 articles address issues faced by vulnerable populations in Canada. We hope you are challenged by these critical explorations of Canadian social policies.

Bienvenue au volume 74 de la Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale/ Canadian Review of Social Policy, où nous continuons notre engagement avec la politique sociale progressive canadienne! Dans cette édition 74 les articles abordent des problématiques rencontrées par certaines populations vulnérables au Canada. Nous espérons que ces explorations critiques de politique sociales canadiennes vous interpelleront.

Nous vous invitons à le lire ici/ We invite you to read it here: 

http://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/issue/view/2307

With an editorial by Wendy McKeen.

Articles

Homelessness among older people: Assessing strategies and frameworks across Canada by Amanda Grenier, Rachel Barken, Tamara Sussman, David W. Rothwell, and Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin

Participation des personnes assistées sociales à la mesure de formation de la main-d’oeuvre (MFOR): Caractéristiques et résultats de fin de participation  par Ysabel Provencher, Rachel Lépine et Hans Ivers.

Playing with motherhood: The politics of leisure and the transition to motherhood in Montreal and Toronto by Stephanie Paterson, Dawn Trussell, Shannon Hebblethwaite, Meredith Evans, and Trisha Xing.

Aboriginal child welfare in British Columbia and unequal power relations: A critical discourse analysis by Travis Holyk and Dr. Henry G.Harder 

Book Reviews/Recensions

A book review by James Michael FitzGerald, of Shauna MacKinnon’s “Decolonizing Employment: Aboriginal Inclusion in Canada’s Labour Market”, published in 2015 by the University of Manitoba Press.

A book review by Rebecca Jane Hall of “Northern Communities Working Together: The Social Economy of Canada’s North” edited by Chris Southcott, published by University of Toronto Press in 2015.