The "economic elite" has long been thought to cooperate at a corporate level to impact state and national policies and programs at the expense of the Canadian citizenry. However, this work reveals the expanding reach of the elite and their current encroachment into the noncorporate arena as yet another opportunity to exert their formidable influence. Citing the increasingly unified and class-conscious aspects of the group, this text reveals the degree to which this minority continues to prosper, dominate, and threaten Canadian democracy through numerous unifying mechanisms: corporate director interlocks; concentrated economic ownership; ties to the mass media; and the many business-oriented think tanks, philanthropic foundations, and corporate policy organizations. Maintaining that these existing relations need not be considered inevitable, the author challenges concerned citizens to come together to disrupt the political and economic status quo.

Brecken de Boer is a man with extraordinary charisma and an impossibly difficult reality. Besides being a brilliant student addicted to adrenaline and caffeine, he is a blood drinking vampire who struggles to pass as human. He has developed a normal life, free of external turmoil. Then Henna Landau comes to town and his ordered world falls apart. Unsettled and angry, he goes after her. Beings like Brecken don't exist, so she has no idea what he really is. Henna is attracted, but senses danger and wants nothing to do with him. And yet, his erratic behavior tumbles her into confusion, lies and secrets. Brecken is convinced things are going his way - until he learns that another of his kind wants Henna for himself.

Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada s higher education system. Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two fundamentally incompatible institutions the university and the corporation. Brownlee argues that moving from liberal education to corporate job training, public service to profit-making and critical research to commercial invention radically undermines the goals of higher education. Investigating the history, causes and impacts of corporatization, this book explores how this transformation has taken shape and its ramifications for both universities and society as a whole. Brownlee suggests several strategies for resisting this process. "