The New Politics of Western Canada Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

Charles Smith is a professor of political studies at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. He is co-editor, with Bryan M. Evans, of Transforming Provincial Politics: The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era and co-author, with Larry Savage, of Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He is co-editor of Labour/Le Travail, Canada's foremost journal of labour studies and labour history.

Tom McIntosh is a professor of politics and international studies at the University of Regina and a researcher at the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit. He has published nine books on Canadian politics as well as peer-reviewed articles in such journals as The Lancet, Canadian Public Administration, the Canadian Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, and Healthcare Policy.