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It's Time to Stand Up and Defend Our People

It’s Time to Stand Up and Defend Our People

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From: Indigenous Nationhood

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It’s your fault: How anti-feminists narrowed the definition of rape and revived the deadly, viral culture of slut shaming and victim blaming

It’s your fault: How anti-feminists narrowed the definition of rape and revived the deadly, viral culture of slut shaming and victim blaming

From: F-Bomb

This chapter discusses the ways in which anti-feminists have narrowed the definition of rape to delegitimize the experiences of countless victims. 31 $3.10 Add
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I've got to throw out the bones now

I’ve got to throw out the bones now

From: Gang Life

Dillon, aged thirty-three and a Latino father of two, tells his story in Chapter Six. Along with five friends, he founded a gang in high school. A few years later he was asked to patch over and … 18 $1.80 Add
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Jacobs’ Theory of Import Replacement
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Jacobs’ Theory of Import Replacement

Section 2: Jacobs’ Urban Economics

From: Cities Matter

Chapter 4 focuses on Jane Jacobs’ theory of import replacement, discussing local markets, variety, the example of Quebec and Québécois language and cultural preferences as an … 16 $1.60 Add
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Jail for Heroin Users Ramps Up: The 1950s

Jail for Heroin Users Ramps Up: The 1950s

From: Heroin

This chapter explores the increase in convictions under the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act in the 1950s and discusses the Oakalla Prison Farm and the Mimico Reformatory in Ontario, where some … 14 $1.40 Add
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Jakaltek American

Jakaltek American

From: A Beauty that Hurts

In this chapter, Lovell discusses a case of mistaken identity, the chaos that ensued, and the story of a man forced to reinvent himself. 6 $0.60 Add
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Jamaican Peasants in Slavery, Semi-slavery and Freedom
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Jamaican Peasants in Slavery, Semi-slavery and Freedom

From: Tiny Engines of Abundance

Chapter 3 examines Jamaica in the decades following slave emancipation in the 1830s, when Jamaica was often put forward as exemplifying the calamitous results of a prosperous peasantry. Topics … 23 $2.30 Add
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James Favel, Winnipeg, Peguis First Nation

James Favel, Winnipeg, Peguis First Nation

“You’re a stakeholder because you’ve got to walk these streets every day.”

From: How We Go Home

James Favel, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is of the Peguis First Nation. He describes his childhood in Winnipeg and his reaching out to his father as teenager, and reconnecting with his culture. He … 19 $1.90 Add
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James’s Attitude Makes the Difference

James’s Attitude Makes the Difference

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

June Horsman recounts the story of James. The story discusses his experiences with special education, his working years, and his desire to upgrade his education later in life. 4 $0.40 Add
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January 2021: Disability Erased and Distorted

January 2021: Disability Erased and Distorted

From: Spin Doctors

This chapter explores the impacts of Covid-19 on Canadians with disabilities. Loreto discusses the lack of Government aid for people with disabilities during this time. 26 $2.60 Add
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Japan

Japan

From: Humanizing the Economy

Product Labeling and Advocacy Workers’ Collective Movement Health and Happiness Elder Care 21 $2.10 Add
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Japanese Canadians in BC, 1900-1939

Japanese Canadians in BC, 1900-1939

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War

This chapter discusses the experience of Japanese Canadians in the early 20th century including the discrimination they faced upon their arrival. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, … ; 40 $4.00 Add
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Jasilyn Charger, Cheyenne River Sioux

Jasilyn Charger, Cheyenne River Sioux

“My son’s buried by the river. . . . I vowed to him that he’s going to be safe, that no oil was going to touch him.”

From: How We Go Home

Jasilyn Charger of the Cheyenne River Sioux, shares her story of her childhood with her family and moving in and out of foster homes and mental health facilities. She then became involved in the … 22 $2.20 Add
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Jason & David

Jason & David

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this chapter, the author discusses his attempts to create a performance piece that juxtaposed images from his childhood with stories and images from the lives of gay artists who had died of … 11 $1.10 Add
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Jean Chrétien’s Conversion

Jean Chrétien’s Conversion

From: Gay Marriage

examines the change in opinion of Prime Minister Jean Chretien ; ; ; 12 $1.20 Add
Jeannie's Demise

Jeannie’s Demise

Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto

August 1, 1875, Toronto: The body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that … 198 View