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From ![]() The Oil Lamp |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He and his wife discuss the future and critique the communist government. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() The Old RMC and the New Canadian Services CollegesFrom: To Serve Canada |
The history of the old RMC and the establishment of the new college in 1948. | Richard Preston | 15 | 1991 | $1.95 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The One True DumplingThe Sauce |
Navneet Alang reflects on the authenticity of cuisine from various and massive diasporas, ownership over food, cultural appropriation and the dismissal of so-called ‘foreign’ food, … | Navneet Alang | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Oneness of Humankind |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses the efforts of people to come together and fight human rights abuses. The chapter includes a discussion of human rights in Afghanistan … | Payam Akhavan | 70 | 2017 | $8.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Only Time Gay Asians Led the Pride ParadeFrom: Any Other Way |
Alan Li reflects on when, on June 27, 1982, over twenty gay Asians led the Toronto Pride parade through Chinatown. | Alan Li | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Opportunity of All TimeFrom: The Universe Within |
In this chapter, Turok examines humanity’s twenty-first century crossroads, where digital technology, quantum computing, and the limits of classical physics converge. | Neil Turkok | 59 | 2012 | $5.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Origins of Oil’s Deep State in CanadaFrom: Oi's Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft uses Alberta as a case study to document the origins of the fossil feul industry in the province and it’s ties to government. | Kevin Taft | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Origins of the Before Columbus FoundationFrom: Blind Persistence |
In this chapter, Desmangles traces how artistic communities in 1960s New York and 1970s California inspired and organized the Before Columbus Foundation. | Justin Desmangles | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() "A Devil in His Own Home Town"From: Len & Cub |
This chapter follows the period after WW1 and Len & Cub’s return to Havelock. They eventually grew apart and took different paths. | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() The P earson Years, 1963–1968 |
Describes the development of the federation under Prime Minister Lester Pearson including the Quebec and Canada Pension Plans, the rise of separatism, Medicare, the constitution and foreign … | Ed Whitcomb | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Pale Horse of Smallpox (August–October) |
In this chapter, Dutil traces the devastating 1885 smallpox epidemic in Montreal, revealing how the disease tore through francophone and anglophone communities and killed over 5,800 people across … | Patrice Dutil | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! “The party situation is deteriorating”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines how the Liberal Party of Canada faced strategic uncertainty in October 1975, as captured in the diaries of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s secretary, Jim … | Ron Graham | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() The PatriarchFrom: Merchant Princes |
1797-1865. Focuses on the life of William Stairs known as the patriarch of the Stairs family. The chapter looks at the fortune to be made in shipping, the struggles the family had, … | James D. Frost | 33 | 2003 | $3.30 Add |
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From ![]() The Patriot |
Chapter three, Patriot focuses on the life and work of Kim Il-sung. He was neither a puppet installed in a North Korean Soviet satellite state by Joseph Stalin, as US propagandists would have it, … | Stephen Gowans | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Patriot State |
Chapter five, The Patriot State focuses on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) which formed under the Soviet influenced northern half the the peninsula. While the United States … | Stephen Gowans | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Pattern of Prairie PoliticsFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
1981 article by Nelson Wiseman examining the diversity of political traditions within the three prairie provinces, as affected by distinct waves of settlers from rural Ontario, Britain, America … | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |


















