Sovereignty

Sovereignty is the supreme authority within a territory. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the person, body, or institution that has the ultimate authority over other people in order to establish a law or change an existing law. In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme legitimate authority over some polity. In international law, sovereignty is the exercise of power by a state. De jure sovereignty refers to the legal right to do so; de facto sovereignty refers to the factual ability to doing so. This can become an issue of special concern upon the failure of …

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APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 24 May 2024 English

Taiwan’s application to join hamstringing Lai's ability t. [...] Led by assertive chord on Taiwan’s sovereignty, referring lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, to Beijing as "China,” a term that

inauguration. Led by assertive chord on Taiwan’s sovereignty, referring lawmakers from the ruling Liberal


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 18 May 2024 English

On called on Canadians to rename Victoria Day as this day the Party calls on members and support- Patriots’ Day and celebrate our patriots, not those ers across the country …

democratic commemoration instead. dependence and sovereignty in the face of imperial- In Quebec, National oligarchs and trillion- public which vested sovereignty in the people, not a aires, are called scions people hail are an integral part independence, sovereignty, freedom and democ- of their unstoppable movement


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

Land and the Liberal Project is an excellent and much-needed accounting of colonialism during the period surrounding Confederation. It challenges nationalistic narratives regarding the formation of Canada.

provinces by 1873, and the Dominion claimed sovereignty over all the North- west. Its claims had mostly Only a few years later, claims to Canadian sovereignty spanned the continent. By 1873, Canada claimed to consolidate its land base and affirm full sovereignty over the Indigenous lands of the Northwest. Bat- was a covert form of aggression. In asserting sovereignty over Indigenous lands, the state also defined to reject the ideas that justify Euro- pean sovereignty over Indigenous lands and peoples. In what follows


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in …

possession were used in competing claims of sovereignty by European nations. Claims were also sometimes


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …

other hand, circulation threatens to compromise sovereignty; it presents a problem of security. Therefore


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 14 May 2024 English

In every sphere of life, division and intolerance has polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is …

veyors of foreign ideology infringing on national sovereignty; corporations are on a rampant march to exploit


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Migration Governance in North America engages the complex dynamics of mobilities across the continent. Situating North America within the global migration landscape, it unpacks such issues as temporary labour mobility, …

agreements are largely ad hoc and reactive. State sovereignty, combined with sustained US dominance of the takes advanced by migration scholars, state sovereignty is viewed as the primaryContinuity and Change inherently involves interdepen- dence, ceding sovereignty over borders and access to political community are recognized as an expression of national sovereignty. In 2016, the un Global Summit on Refugees and


BC Housing · 10 May 2024 English

2 Outline • Heat/wildfire smoke events and related illness • Risks for health effects of heat and wildfire smoke • Planning and action for extreme heat and wildfire smoke • …

rights & ways of being Uplifting Indigenous sovereignty, culture, and knowledge systems. Housing is the


Yellowhead Institute · 7 May 2024

In doing operations into the purview of the land in question — in so, they take on a similar tone to the kinds of agricultural this case, through the prospect …

expand.” One of the project’s and northern food sovereignty.”13 Our research so far has goals is to “establish expanding settler agri-food jurisdiction, and sovereignty in the region, which would philosophies, structures consolidation, and conversion, there is no Indigenous sovereignty and foodways. evidence that decision-makers have within a larger political context of Indigenous sovereignty and jurisdiction – something that settlers will Agroecology in Canada: Embracing the Politics of Food Sovereignty”; Marney et 9 Personal communication with one


NCCID: National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases · 3 May 2024 English

2013 PA6: Response to Outbreaks and Adverse Events 2013 Vision: Well-planned, clearly articulated and pre-tested plans, protocols and capacities to provide timely, effective and well-coordinated determination, investigation, mitigation and containment …

partners); equity-informed and consistent with data sovereignty (e.g., OCAP* and OCAS**) principles; community-focused;


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