Policy
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 The Trans-Pacific Partnership and CanadaA 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 | ||
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From  NEW! “The vehicle we do not have”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the economic and political pressures of late September 1980 (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudea’s prinicpal secretary). | Ron Graham | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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From  The Way ForwardFrom: The Indo-Pacific |
In this chapter, Mitchell argues that Canada must shift its economic and strategic focus toward the Indo-Pacific by 2050, where three of the world’s four largest economies will reside. | Jim Mitchell | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  The world will always use (enough of our) oil and gasFrom: Between Doom and Denial |
In this chapter, Leach examines Canada’s oil and gas future amid climate action, arguing that while fossil fuel use will persist, the volume and price will decline sharply. | Andrew Leach | 21 | 2023 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! “Things were getting worse”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the economic and political turmoil of September and October 1975, centred on John Turner’s resignation as Finance Minister under Prime Minister Pierre … | Ron Graham | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Today’s Subsidizing StateFrom: At the Trough |
In this chapter, Carbonneau traces the growth of federal subsidies to Canadian businesses under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, from $14 billion in 2014-15 to $33 billion by 2023-24. | Laurent Carbonneau | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Twenty Years Ago Today, and the Band Still PlaysFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
In the concluding chapter, Pitt checks in with the cast of characters that catapulted New Brunswick’s tech industry onto the world stage. | Gordon Pitts | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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  Uniting the "I" and the "We" Affordable Housing in PerpetuityFrom: Resilience Imperative |
The unprecedented financial, economic, and social fallout from the credit crunch presents governments with a structural set of problems when it comes to housing. A steep decline in prices in many … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 28 | 2012 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Web GiantsFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter explores solutions for taxing massive online corporations, who have hisotrically proved … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From Whale Hunting on the New York ThruwayFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
This chapter details Pitt’s visits to startup incubators in the United States, and explores several nascent companies with the potential to garner a billion-dollar valuation. | Gordon Pitts | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! What Economic Sovereignty Really Means |
In this chapter, Lam examines how Canada’s economic dependence on the United States threatens its political independence. | Arthur Lam | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! What Kind of Superpower Do We Want to Be? |
In this chapter, Stanford examines Canada’s deepening entrenchment in raw resource exports and the historical industrial policies once used to counter that dependence. | Jim Standford | 15 | 2026 | $1.50 Add |
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From  What to Do? |
Policy proposals to address increasing inequality in Canada. A Carbon Fee and Dividend could both reduce cardon diozide emissions and lessen inequality. As robots increasingly make the robots … | Lars Osberg | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! What to do? |
In this chapter, the author examines various courses of action and policies that could be taken to address economic inequality in Canada. | Lars Osberg | 35 | 2024 | $3.50 Add |
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From What We Could Build, and How We Can Address InequalityFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 3 of this title explore the disticition between income inequality and wealth inequaltiy and methods for building shared wealth for Canadians. This reading explores what Canada … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
