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From  NEW! Uprooting the Racism in Our RanksReflections from a Labour Perspective From: White Riot |
This chapter explores how anti-Asian racism is systemic within Canadian labour. It discusses Canada’s labour movement, the freedom convoy, and the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes following … | Anna Liu; Chris Ramsaroop; Karine 吴珏颖 Ng; Stephanie Fung | 10 | 2023 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Uptown/Downtown: Diary of a Hong Kong Dyke in Nineties TorontoFrom: Any Other Way |
Karen Chan recounts the eventful week leading up to her twenty third birthday in August, 1998. | Karen B.K. Chan | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Urban Land ValuesSection 1: The Economist’s City From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 3 examines urban land value, discussing topics including land value, the choice between urban, suburban or rural, types of buildings such as office towers, apartment buildings, rental … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  US Supremacy’s All-Conquering March |
Chapter twelve, US Supremacy’s All Conquering March focuses on the United States commitment to ending the DPRK or North Korea state. The DPRK has a people- and Korean-centred economy, … | Stephen Gowans | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Using Law and Democracy to Resist Predatory MiningFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Reclaiming Democracy, Realizing Self-Determination: Consultas as a Tool to Defend Human Rights and the Environment in Guatemala’s Genocidal Shadow – … | Cory Wanless; J.P. Laplante | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From  V-J DayFrom: The Ward |
Arlene Chan | 1 | 2015 | $0.10 Add | |
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From  Vagaries of Arctic Geography, 1886: Landscapes and Human Occupancy / Getting settled in the United States, 1886-1888: Ethnological and Geographical WritingsChapters 9 and 10 From: The Franz Boas Enigma |
Chapter 9 begins after the publication of Baffin-Land, discussing its author’s enthusiasm, reception of the book, its structure/contents (chapter by chapter). It also comments on his … | Ludger Müller-Wille | 21 | 2014 | $2.10 Add |
 NEW! Vancouver ViceCrime and Spectacle in the City's West End |
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the … | Aaron Chapman | 256 | 2021 | View |
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From  Vaping (E-cigarettes) |
Chapter Five includes the following topics: History – JUUL and Other Vaping Devices – E-liquids – Health Risks – Second-, Third-, and Fourth-Hand Vape – Youth … | James G. Wigmore | 135 | 2023 | $13.50 Add |
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From  Vaudeville TomFrom: Uncle |
This chapter describes the evolution of minstrelsy into vaudeville, and how this new form of entertainment brought new meaning to the character of Uncle Tom. | Cheryl Thompson | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From KillJoy’s Kastle Allyson Mitchell’s VisionFrom: Any Other Way |
Jane Farrow discusses the KillJoy Kastle, a performance driven art installation in Toronto in the fall of 2013. | Jane Farrow | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Vera Styres, Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk/Tuscarora“I was a ‘scabby, dirty little Indian.’” From: How We Go Home |
Vera Styres is of the Six Nations of the Grand River and she is of Mohawk/Tuscarora descent. She is a retired social worker. She speaks of her childhood in residential schools, and of coming to … | Sara Sinclair | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From  VersaillesPeace or Armistice? |
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 … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 6 | 2016 | $0.60 Add |
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From Via Fascism to a Second World War, 1918-1945 |
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 … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 27 | 2016 | $2.70 Add |
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From NEW! Vice and the Tumbling DiceFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, the author details the history of the policing of vice in Vancouver, and the corruption that often accompanied these efforts. | Aaron Chapman | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
 Victims of BenevolenceThe Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School |
An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal … | Elizabeth Furniss | 142 | 1992 | View |
