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Canada Vs California

How Ottawa took on Netflix and the streaming giants

 Canada vs California provides a road map of the tense battle between Canadian content and California’s billion dollar businesses that threaten to drown it out. Howard Law’s Canada vs. … 232 View
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Canadian Competition Law & Policy

 Competition law is centred on the idea that competitive markets can efficiently and effectively deliver the goods, services, and economic growth that society desires. It seeks to promote the … 588 View

Legalizing Theft

A Short Guide to Tax Havens

 When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are frozen, when our living conditions are precarious, it is because of tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax … 125 View

Share the Wealth!

How we can tax Canada’s super-rich and create a better country for everyone

 When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, millions of Canadians suddenly found themselves out of work as businesses shuttered and the country went into lockdown. While many were struggling to … ; 208 View

The Age of Increasing Inequality

The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1%

 For 35 years, Canada has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. It proposes meaningful steps … 248 View

The Big Stall

How big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada

 This book traces the origins of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan back to the energy sector itself — in particular Big Oil. It shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil … 304 View

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada

A Citizen's Guide

 The Trans-Pacific Partnership, with its twelve participating countries on three continents, is the largest regional trade and investment agreement that Canada has ever negotiated. It is also one … ; 216 View

Unicorn in the Woods

 As tech investors the world over search for elusive unicorns (start-ups valued at over $1 billion), acclaimed business journalist Gordon Pitts asks whether there can be a place for high-tech … 264 View
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From: Share the Wealth!

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 This reading includes a foreword by Canadian NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and an author’s preface ; 8 $0.80 Add
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From: Canadian Competition Law & Policy

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Introducing the TPP

From: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada

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 Overview of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in terms of it’s effect on Canada. Briefly outlines the debates and the specific areas that other chapters delve more thoroughly into. ; 23 $2.30 Add
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When Brian Met Chris

From: Unicorn in the Woods

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 In the introduction, Pitts describes a consequential meeting of two tech enthusiasts in New Brunswick. 6 $0.60 Add
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From: The Big Stall

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 Compares and contrasts the energy policies of Pierre and Justin Trudeau to demonstrate the shift from a government able and willing to intervene in the economy to pursue the national interest to … 3 $0.30 Add
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Introduction

From: Canada Vs California

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 This chapter introduces the concept of this book and why a book covering the political showdown of Bill C-11 is relevant and important. This chapter lays the ground work of the Bill’s … 8 $0.80 Add
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From: Legalizing Theft

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And Economy that Works – For the Wealthy

From: Share the Wealth!

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 Readings in part 1 of this title explore the political and economic decisions and trends that have led to economic inequality in Canada. This chapter discusses the current degree of income … ; 19 $1.90 Add