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Venice Commission: Dogs That Watch and Bite, Investigating how to properly create, fund, and support effective watchdogs to defend and serve the public interest
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Venice Commission: Dogs That Watch and Bite, Investigating how to properly create, fund, and support effective watchdogs to defend and serve the public interest

From: Open Governments, Secret Canada

From Open Governments, Secret Canada: Hiding Information Other Countries Share 13 $1.30 Add
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Versailles

Versailles

Peace or Armistice?

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

On June 28, 1919, exactly five years after the assassination in Sarajevo, the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles officially terminates the Great War. In reality, this treaty merely … 6 $0.60 Add
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Via Fascism to a Second World War, 1918-1945

Via Fascism to a Second World War, 1918-1945

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

The European elite, henceforth dominated by the industrial and financial bourgeoisie, is frustrated by the counterproductive outcome of the Great War. After 1918 it seeks again to exorcise the … 27 $2.70 Add
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Victor Gao in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

Victor Gao in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

June 10, 2020

From: The World After Covid

Victor Gao and Rudyard Griffiths discuss the effects of Covid on China, rising global tensions, his advice for Canada, and Chinese politics, economy, and reforms. 10 $1.00 Add
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Voices from the Past--Economic Growth and its Critics

Voices from the Past–Economic Growth and its Critics

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the author takes the reader through major economic thinkers of the past, and their unique conceptualizations of growth. 24 $2.40 Add
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Voices in Search of a Conversation

Voices in Search of a Conversation

An Unfinished Project

From: Canadian Studies

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Volvo
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Volvo

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Three of Halifax’s “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on a session on Volvo Canada Limited. He explains how government … 8 $0.80 Add
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Walmart on wheels

Walmart on wheels

Labour and unions

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

Chapter nine of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? examines the labour and union aspects of the three revolutions in automobility as well as of public transit, and finds that carpooling apps in … 18 $1.80 Add
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War = Profits

War = Profits

From: Big Business and Hitler

Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines how World War II (1939-1945) meant profits for American business both in America and Germany. 11 $1.10 Add
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Warning Signs

Warning Signs

From: BlackBerry Town

Howitt asseses Research in Motion as its success is threatened by rival companies – most notably Apple’s iPhone. 16 $1.60 Add
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Water Export

Water Export

The Site C End-Game

From: Damming the Peace

Investigative journalist Joyce Nelson links the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley to continental water-sharing plans. Her analysis is that the Site C dam is being … 15 $1.50 Add
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Water Use in the Home

Water Use in the Home

From: Dry Run

Let’s take a look now at residential water use, something that most of us are quite familiar with. The sources of water use inside the home with almost 60 percent goes for shower, toilet … 17 $1.70 Add
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Watering the Garden

Watering the Garden

The Chretien Years

From: The Tangled Garden

A first‑hand account of the development of Canadian culture policy by the Brian Mulroney Conservative government (1984 to 1993). Focuses specifically on initiatives by former communications … 16 $1.60 Add
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Wealth Driven Business Models and Their Alternatives

Wealth Driven Business Models and Their Alternatives

From: From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation

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Wealth versus Commonwealth

Wealth versus Commonwealth

From: Resilience Imperative

For the last 200 years, the ideology of unregulated markets, free-flow-ing capital, and minimalist government has waxed and waned. The unbridled markets of the 1920s gave way to state investment … ; 36 $3.60 Add