Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Take Me Away to Another World

Take Me Away to Another World

From: Any Other Way

Rebecka Sheffield recalls the role that Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche played in her life and an encounter she had with Heche after moving to Toronto from Saskatoon. 2 $0.20 Add
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Taking a Joke

Taking a Joke

From: No One to Tell

In this chapter, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo discusses some challenging situations related to death in her work and in her personal life. A discussion of workplace activities which blur the … 13 $1.30 Add
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Taking Care of Yourself
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Taking Care of Yourself

Part 5. Campaigning

From: Women Winning Office

In Taking Care of Yourself Nash stresses the importance of work life balance in the life of a politician. In this chapter Nash explores the realities of day-to-day political life, ways to help … 6 $0.60 Add
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Taking Curatorial Control: A Personal Recollection of Curating Tunirrisiangit
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Taking Curatorial Control: A Personal Recollection of Curating Tunirrisiangit

Circumpolar Resurgence: Section 4

From: Qummut Qukiria!

This chapter explores the author Jocelyn Piirainen experience curating the Tunirrusiangit exhibition. 6 $0.60 Add
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Taking It to the Bank
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Taking It to the Bank

Accounting for Unpaid Debt

From: Unsettling Canada

Taking it to the Bank focuses on the Indigenous right to self-determination and to economic control over their own territories. 12 $1.20 Add
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Taking the Guilt and Shame Out of Barebacking as a Sex Worker

Taking the Guilt and Shame Out of Barebacking as a Sex Worker

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this chapter, Lemoon discusses the impact of her bipolar disorder on her life as a sex worker, and how the public dialogue about safe sex needs to expand beyond exhortations to use condoms. 8 $0.80 Add
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Taking the Leap: 2016
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Taking the Leap: 2016

From: From Layton to Singh

Chapter 5 focuses on the NDP’s recovery plan after the upset of the 2015 election. The chapter covers topics including Mulcair’s defence in the leadership review, Alberta NDP’s … 18 $1.80 Add
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Talking (and Listening) to Parents

Talking (and Listening) to Parents

From: A Lucky Life

Talks about the rudiments of family interviewing skills 3 $0.30 Add
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Tangling with the Police

Tangling with the Police

From: How We Changed Toronto

1978-1981. I realized quite quickly that this was an opportunity, however difficult, to begin questioning deep-seated biases — particularly racism and homophobia — on the part of a … 26 $2.60 Add
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Tannis Neilsen: The Simcoe Street Mural
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Tannis Neilsen: The Simcoe Street Mural

TRAILBLAZERS AND CHANGEMAKERS

From: Indigenous Toronto

Erica Commanda interviews Tannis Nielsen. Tannis Nielsen’s work includes research, teaching, and a range of visual arts (drawing, painting, new media installations, sculpture, and … 7 $0.70 Add
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Tarbet

Tarbet

A School and its Community at Mid-Century

From: A Sense of Themselves

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Teacher to Journalist:

Teacher to Journalist:

Fredericton to Ottawa and Beyond

From: The Golden Age of Liberalism

1955-1960. His time teaching at New Brunswick’s Teachers’ College, In 1959 he left Fredericton for Ottawa and an opportunity at Radio Canada to become a political journalist, 40 $4.00 Add
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Teena’s Dream

Teena’s Dream

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Janet Hammock imagines the future story of Teena, someone currently learning how to read and write. The chapter is different discusses reaching ones literary goals, motivations afterwards, … 8 $0.80 Add
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Telling Her Own Story

Telling Her Own Story

From: No Place For A Woman

The opening sections of the book provide a brief biography of Ella Manuel, describing her Newfoundland upbringing, travels, and relationships throughout her life. 3 $0.30 Add
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Ten
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Ten

From: Holden After & Before

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Territorealise: Mapping and Remapping South Sámi Culture, Landscape, and Language
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Territorealise: Mapping and Remapping South Sámi Culture, Landscape, and Language

Land and Language: Section 1

From: Qummut Qukiria!

This chapter examines how to map the land of the Sámi. Topics discussed include cartography, early mention of culture in northern europe, mapping sami cultural mentions and culture through … 13 $1.30 Add