Economics
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From  The Israel/Palestine CaseFrom: Bombardier Abroad |
Historical Context – Bombardier in Israel – The Tel Avive-Jerusalem Electric Line and International Law – The A1 Rail Project within a Context of Dispossession – The … | David P. Thomas | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
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From  NEW! The Journey to Change for GoodIntroduction From: Change for Good |
Paul Klein | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add | |
 NEW! The Killer’s HenchmanCapitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster |
Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announces the Covid-19 pandemic will end “when the world … | Stephen Gowans | 280 | 2022 | View |
 The Lac-Mégantic Rail DisasterPublic Betrayal, Justice Denied |
This book explores the circumstances leading up to the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, describes the events themselves, and recounts the aftermath including the outcome of criminal trials … | 216 | View | ||
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From  NEW! The Lame One |
In “The Lame One” the author reflects on their life back in the Yukon at the age of 35. Discussing their recovery from severe poverty, alcohol abuse, mental health episodes, … | Lori Fox | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  The Landscape of Indigenous WorldviewFrom: Indigenomics |
Topics discussed in this chapter include a series of principles outlining the indigenous worldview. These include: connectedness, story, animate life force, transformation and renewal. | Carol Anne Hilton | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! The Large-Scale Solutions |
In Chapter 4 Kaufman provides an overview of the large-scale societal changes that need to happen to build a just and sustainable world. This chapter discusses topics such as transforming the … | Cynthia Kaufman | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From  “The largest energy project in the entire world”From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes reports about why the Harper Government would support this plan tieing their support to the oil sands and finds the government seemed anxious for China to support Canada’s resource … | Gus Van Harten | 12 | 2015 | $1.20 Add |
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From  “The Last Best West”:The West in Confederation, 1869–1913 From: The Rise of the New West |
Details the history of confederation giving a firm background, the winning of the west, the initial failure, and the success with the wheat boom | John F. Conway | 24 | 2014 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! The Last Eighteenth-Century “Indian War,” the Opportunistic Origins of Capitalist Accumulation, and the Beginnings of BankingThe Other Meanings of 1812 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the effect of the War of 1812 on relations between the colonial rulers and Indigenous populations as well as economic opportunities presented and the creation of a colonial … | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
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From The legal challenge to the FIPA, part oneFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
The public opposition to the China FIPA included thousands of people who took steps to support an effort by the Hupacasath First Nation, an aboriginal community on Vancouver Island in British … | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From The legal challenge to the FIPA, part twoFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Through focusing on the arguments of the government’s foreign investment expert, J. Christopher Thomas, and how the courts favoured his opinions Van Harten outlines how the legal challenge … | Gus Van Harten | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From The Liberators |
Introduces the concept of neoliberalism and its prioritization of deregulation and privatization. Analyzes the process of privatization and deregulation in the Canadian rail industry. Introduces … | Bruce Campbell | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
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From  The long reach of oil’s deep stateFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the extended reach of oil’s deep state in Alberta including oil’s relationship with the World Health Organization and universities … | Kevin Taft | 19 | 2017 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Resisting the Carbon Bomb |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the pipelines being built on Indigenous land particularly the Kinder Morgan project proposed in 2016 and how the government of Canada moves forward … | Arthur Manuel | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From The magical FIPA: attracting Chinese investment without any environmental impact!From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
It is especially telling that the government, in its environmental assessment of the China FIPA, discounted entirely the possibility of environmental impacts of new Chinese investment in Canada. … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
