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Let Me Entertain You

Let Me Entertain You

From: The Truth About Stories

In this reading, Indigenous author and scholar Thomas King explores the idea that stories, both those we tell ourselves and those that are told to us by others, are foundational in establishing … 31 $3.72 Add
Let's Move On

Let’s Move On

Paul Okalik Speaks Out

Pangnirtung, where Paul Okalik was born, has survived starvation, epidemics, relocation, foreign language schooling, and confrontation with the Canadian justice system. That is what prompted Paul … ; 200 View
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Chapter Two

Chapter Two

From: Reconciliation in Practice

Letter to John A. MacDonald (First Prime Minister of Canada) 1 $0.10 Add
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City of Love at the Castle on the Hill

City of Love at the Castle on the Hill

From: Any Other Way

Maureen Fitzgerald recalls the events surrounding a mass gay wedding at Toronto’s Casa Loma during Rob Ford’s tenure as mayor. ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Liberation

Liberation

From: Family Ties

This chapter discusses the summer of 1944, and how Soviet operations dismantled German defenses across Ukraine, dismantling the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. 6 $0.60 Add
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Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Liberty vs. The Dollar

From: Quebec in Question

A brief description of the colonial state of Quebec society — cultural, social, economic — and the status of Quebeckers as second class citizens within Canada in the postwar period, … 15 $1.50 Add
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Libya
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Libya

Year Zero

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter looks at the close ties that developed between Canada and SNC Lavalin and the Qadaffi regime in the early 2000s and the dramatic shift in this relationship only a few years later, … 6 $0.60 Add
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Libya from the Ottomans to King Idris
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Libya from the Ottomans to King Idris

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter traces Libya’s history over centuries of foreign domination and the fight among Western countries over the control of its oil wealth and the rise of Muammar Qadaffi, who, … 8 $0.80 Add
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Libyan Pan-Africanism and Its Discontents

Libyan Pan-Africanism and Its Discontents

From: Slouching Towards Sirte

In Chapter Three, Forte focus on Pan-Africanism and the relationships between Gaddafi’s Libya and key African Leaders. Forte highlights how much of Gaddafi’s thinking followed in the … 50 $5.00 Add
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Libyan tragedy, Canadian guilt
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Libyan tragedy, Canadian guilt

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter argues that NATO’s 2011 war on Libya turned a relatively stable, egalitarian state into a deeply fragmented and impoverished country, while Canadian corporations like … 12 $1.20 Add
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Lie Back and Get Comfortable

Lie Back and Get Comfortable

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

This essay concerns the youthful experiences of a Jewish woman as she confronts the anti-queer predudice of her mother. 7 $0.70 Add
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Lieutenant John Cartwright’s Expedition into Beothuk Country

Lieutenant John Cartwright’s Expedition into Beothuk Country

From: The Beothuk

This chapter recounts the firsthand experiences of Lieutenant John Cartwright in Notre Dame Bay in the late 1700s 7 $0.70 Add
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Life After Residential School

Life After Residential School

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools

This chapter describes the long-lasting impact that residential schools had on indigenous communities. It illustrates this with photographs and illustrations, documents, and firsthand accounts … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Outing
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The Outing

From: Len & Cub

This chapter details the circumstances of Len’s outing in 1931, after which he was forced to leave Havelock. ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Life and Death on a Hospital Ship

Life and Death on a Hospital Ship

The Risks and the Rules

From: Asleep in the Deep

In late March 1918, Anna Samers was transferred to the hospital ship Llandovery Castle which traveled between England and Halifax. This last assignment brought her to the attention of the world. … 30 $3.00 Add
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Life at Descoigne

Life at Descoigne

From: Within the Barbed Wire Fence

talks about life at Descoigne Road Camp ; 6 $0.60 Add