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What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Nearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world’s favourite lump of carbs. ​​​​If the … 234 View
What We Talk About When We Talk About War

What We Talk About When We Talk About War

An Amazon.ca Editor’s Pick for 2012 and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2012 Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and … 376 View
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What We're Up Against

What We’re Up Against

The New Climate Denialism in Canada

From: A Good War

In Chapter 2, Klein examines the present day political, economic, and cultural barriers we face in our efforts to begin to meaningfully fight climate change and climate emergences. The chapter … 32 $3.20 Add
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What’s in a Name? The Jamaican Patty Controversy
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What’s in a Name? The Jamaican Patty Controversy

The Sauce

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

Cheryl Thompson reflects on her parents ties to their Jamaican roots through food, learning to make Jamaican food, the book Traditional Jamaican Cookery, food history, the Jamaican beef patty, … 5 $0.50 Add
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Wheels

Wheels

From: South End Boy

1930s and 1940s Halifax. Cars 7 $0.70 Add
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When Eaton's Pitched Its Tent

When Eaton’s Pitched Its Tent

From: The Ward Uncovered

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When Prevention Fails

When Prevention Fails

Protecting the Vulnerable

From: Disarming Conflict

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When the Pine Needles Fall
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When the Pine Needles Fall

Indigenous Acts of Resistance

There have been many things written about Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990, but When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of … ; ; ; 280 View
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When You Mess with Creation Myths, the Knives Come Out

When You Mess with Creation Myths, the Knives Come Out

From: Bigotry on Broadway

Tha author recounts his experiences and thoughts after having written and produced his play The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda and critiques the popular play Hamilton. 8 $0.80 Add
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Whenever My Sore Heart Gets Hungry

Whenever My Sore Heart Gets Hungry

The Quest for Land

From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets

In this chapter, the author explores the evolution and current situation of the Palestinian poetry scene. He meets and talks to several poets living and working in Palestine. 49 $4.90 Add
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Where You Are Standing
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Where You Are Standing

The Embodied History of 360 Riot Walk

From: White Riot

This chapter provides a complete breakdown of the inception and creative process behind the 360 Riot Walk. It includes how information was sourced, why each stop in the tour was chosen, the meal … 32 $3.20 Add
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Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?

From: To Wawa with Love

Discusses a new student who was from a foreign country and how he ruined his first christmas in his new home 4 $0.40 Add
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Where the Rich Went for Vice

Where the Rich Went for Vice

From: The Ward

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White
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White

From: Tracking the Caribou Queen

The chapter recounts further adjustments to highschool, an ill fated winter camping trip with Suz, the kindness and generosity of the man who saved them, and the end of the friendship between the … 8 $0.80 Add
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White Paper to Red Paper
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White Paper to Red Paper

Drawing the Battle Lines

From: Unsettling Canada

White Paper to Red Paper focuses on the White Papers created by Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chrétien in 1969, which was an attempt to abolish the Indian Act and Indian Status in Canada. The … 8 $0.80 Add
White Riot
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White Riot

The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver

White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion … 192 View