Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  NEW! Orange Crash: the 2015 Federal ElectionFrom: From Layton to Singh |
Chapter 4 examines the NDP’s failure to maintain the surge in popularity experienced under Layton’s leadership in the 2015 Federal Election. The chapter covers topics including … | Matt Fodor | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Organizations that Can HelpFrom: Walking Away from Hate |
Jeanette Manning; Lauren Manning | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add | |
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From  A Place Like The ContinentalFrom: Any Other Way |
Elise Chenier tells the story of the Conitental, Toronto’s longest running lesbian bar. | Elise Chenier | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Ostarbeiter in GermanyFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 4 discusses Wanda’s experience as a Ostarbeiter (eastern worker), one of the 1.6 million foreigner forced labourers used by the Nazi’s during the Second World War. The … | Marsha Faubert | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Other People’s Houses |
In “Other People’s Houses” the author explores housing or more importantly the lack of affordable, sustainable and accessible housing for working-class people across Canada. … | Lori Fox | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Ottawa CallsFrom: Pierre Poilievre |
In this chapter, Lawton follows Pierre Poilievre’s summer internship in Jason Kenney’s Calgary office in 1999 and the broader United Alternative merger that produced the Canadian Alliance. | Andrew Lawton | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
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From  oud/oldFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
On the chronic abstraction of using a language learned after childhood. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! “Our best people do not show great confidence”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the 1979 Canadian federal election campaign (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudea’s prinicpal secretary). | Ron Graham | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! “Our fears turned to joy”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the closing days of the 1980 Liberal campaign, February 6 to 9, as Pierre Trudeau and Jim Coutts navigated rallies across Kamloops, Prince George, Toronto, and … | Ron Graham | 20 | 2025 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Our Lifelong Love AffairFrom: Pilgrim Souls |
covers our emotional relationships and how they developed through our married life. | Jim Lotz | 31 | 2013 | $3.10 Add |
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From Our People: Janis Cole and Holly Dale in the 1970’sFrom: Any Other Way |
Jon Davies discusses the work of Toronto Filmmakers Janis Cole and Holly Dale in the 1970’s. | Jon Davies | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Our Polish-Jewish MotherFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the bond in contemporary Israel between a Palestinian Arab family in Beer a-Saba and their Polish-Jewish nanny, Paulina, who became a mother figure to the twins. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Our Rights Get Stripped Away |
In this chapter, Cull interviews a woman who entered the sex trade as an escape from a violent relationship. She feels that sex work saved her life, and feels that the laws governing sex work … | Kerri Cull | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
 Out LoudEssays on Mental Illness, Stigma & Recovery |
Out Loud is a collection of more than fifty essays by people affected by mental illness. There are essays by those who have experienced mental illness themselves, by family and friends, by … | Ramona Dearing | 240 | 2010 | View |
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From Out of the Cold the Thousands CameFrom: Any Other Way |
A letter written by retired Philip McLeod to his friends describing the massive protests that occurred in Toronto following the police raids on bathhouses in the city. | Philip McLeod | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Outside ActivitiesFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Working with the Canadian Jewish Congress and running as an NDP candidate for the Ontario legislature. | Alan Borovoy | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
