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Aviation and Rail
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Aviation and Rail

Regulatory Capture in the Aviation and Rail Sector

From: Corporate Rules

In this chapter, Bruce Campbell examines the risks in the regulatory capture of the rail and aviation sectors in Canada and the dangers with the increase deregulation of transport. Campbell … 18 $1.80 Add
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Awaiting Justice: The Ceaseless Struggle of the Lubicon Cree

Awaiting Justice: The Ceaseless Struggle of the Lubicon Cree

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 10 Melina Laboucan-Massimo explores the struggles of the Lubicon Cree of Northern Alberta who face challenges from the encroachment of massive oil and gas development without their consent. 5 $0.50 Add
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Back to the Future

Back to the Future

The World Economic Crisis of the 1930s

From: From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

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Balancing the Claims of Nation and of Class

Balancing the Claims of Nation and of Class

Fifty Years of Covering Quebec

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

Fifty years after its founding, CD continues a proud tradition of nonethnocentric coverage of Quebec politics, but some strategic limitations persist: CD seems to have catalogued parallel social … 17 $1.70 Add
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Banking on Well-Being

Banking on Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

* All Roads Lead to London: The Queen’s Banker’s Wife * Freeing Economies of the Burden of Interest from Debt-Based Money * A Public Bank for Well-Being * What is a Public Bank and … 22 $2.20 Add
Bankrupticies & Bailouts

Bankrupticies & Bailouts

Recession? Depression? Market adjustment? Billion-dollar bailouts? Just what is happening to the economy? Like the rest of the industrialized world, Canada is in the midst of an economic crisis … ; 168 View
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Banks and Financial Institutions
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Banks and Financial Institutions

Canadian Bank Regulation — A Case of Efficient Capture

From: Corporate Rules

In this chapter, Marc- André Pigeon and David Pringle examine how the defining features of Canada’s banking sector are its enduring stability and profitability, as well as examine the … ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Barrick Gold, the University of Toronto, and the Corporate Capture of the Canadian Government
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Barrick Gold, the University of Toronto, and the Corporate Capture of the Canadian Government

Part Two: Dispossession Abroad

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

In Chapter 7, author Sakura Saunders presents a historical account of how Canadian civil actors have attempted to compel the Canadian government to hold Canadian mining companies to account for … 28 $2.80 Add
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Basic Income and Population Health

Basic Income and Population Health

From: Basic Income For Canadians

This chapter looks at how basic income policies can be beneficial to the overall mental and physical health of communities. 15 $1.50 Add
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Basic Income Comes to Ontario - But Briefly
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Basic Income Comes to Ontario – But Briefly

From: The Case for Basic Income

This chapter covers the short-lived basic income project in Ontario, from it’s inception to its cancellation by the newly-elected Ford government. ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
Basic Income For Canadians

Basic Income For Canadians

From the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put … 258 View
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Beamers, Cells, Malls and Cantopop

Beamers, Cells, Malls and Cantopop

Thinking through the Geographies of Chineseness

From: Experiencing Difference

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Becoming Ordinary

Becoming Ordinary

50 Years of Arts and Culture

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

It is in this departure from an assessment approach to culture that CD made its most interesting and useful contributions to cultural commentary. 27 $2.70 Add
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Beginnings

Beginnings

From: Merchant Princes

1730-1797. Looks at the marriage between Hannah Roe and John Steers (not Denis Stairs as was previously thought) their time in Grenada, examines Hannah’s two other marriages after … 24 $2.40 Add
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Being Me in the Academy

Being Me in the Academy

From: Experiencing Difference

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Being Present

Being Present

From: Intrinsic Hope

The first habit of hope I’d like to discuss is being present. This means paying attention to whatever is going on and not getting sidetracked or distracted — in other words, living … 16 $1.60 Add