Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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 NEW! The Prime MinistersCanada's Leaders and the Nation They Shaped |
After a surprising conversation with young Canadians who didn’t recognize the name Lester B. Pearson – Nobel Peace Prize winner and Canada’s fourteenth prime minister — … | J.D.M. Stewart | 376 | 2025 | View |
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From  NEW! The ProblemFrom: Making a Home |
In this chapter, Powley discusses the many young people with disabilities who are placed in aged care facilities and how this impacts their mental health and social needs. Powley discusses the … | Jen Powley | 28 | 2023 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! "The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name"From: Len & Cub |
The authors talk about how Len & Cub’s story/photographs came to be preserved in the archive and how we can piece together their story. It also discusses queer historical context. | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting WellDependence From: On Opium |
This chapter describes the author’s dependance on the (taken as prescribed) opiods, and how these allow her to work and enjoy life in three chunks of five hours throughout the day. The … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 36 | 2021 | $3.60 Add |
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From NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting WellIndependence From: On Opium |
The author explores her relationship with her chronic pain and the tension between independence and dependence on prescription opiods, at first rationing relief. She parses the moral … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
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From NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting WellInterdependence From: On Opium |
This chapter explores community, including various methods of harm reduction and a conference in Portugal, where all drugs have been decriminalized. The author describes online support systems … | Carlyn Zwarenstein | 58 | 2021 | $5.80 Add |
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From  NEW! “The Quebec question”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter,Graham examines the weeks leading up to Quebec’s 1980 sovereignty referendum (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudea’s prinicpal secretary). | Ron Graham | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Raid on The Body PoliticFrom: Any Other Way |
Ed Jackson recalls a raid on the Body Politic newspaper by the police’s anti-pornography unit, and the fight for the freedom of the press that ensued. | Ed Jackson | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From  The Real Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons |
The cost of the Scottish Clearances through forced emmigration and the abolition of Scottish commons. | Heather Menzies | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! The Reckoning, Part IFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 8 focuses on the Nuremberg trials, and other efforts to hold perpetrators of war crimes during the Second World War criminally responsible. | Marsha Faubert | 17 | 2023 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! The Reckoning, Part IIFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 14 discusses the questions surrounding compensation for many of the victims of Nazi war crimes that were still unresolved by the 1990s for their historical responsibilities of forced … | Marsha Faubert | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
 The Reconciliation ManifestoRecovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy |
In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non- Indigenous Canadians believe about their … | 312 | View | ||
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From  The RecruitFrom: Walking Away from Hate |
Jeanette Manning; Lauren Manning | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add | |
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From  The Reelection CampaignFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
1980. Sewell’s reelection campaign | John Sewell | 28 | 2015 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! “The resolution”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the September 1980 period when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau moved to patriate the Canadian constitution and draft a Charter of Rights following the collapse of … | Ron Graham | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Rest of My ChestFrom: Gender Failure |
In this chapter, Coyote recounts their experience with chest binding. | Ivan E. Coyote | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
