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What is to be Done?

What is to be Done?

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War

The author muses on Canadian culture and the ideas of epics and epic behaviour, which reduce the world to a dichotomy of black and white and as a result encourage militarism/"warrior … 46 $4.60 Add
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What It Meant
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What It Meant

From: Canada's Main Street

In this chapter, Baird reflects on the expansionof the Trans-Canada Highway and its role in linking communities, supporting trade, and symbolizing national unity. 8 $0.80 Add
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What Kind of Superpower Do We Want to Be?
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What Kind of Superpower Do We Want to Be?

From: Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World

In this chapter, Stanford examines Canada’s deepening entrenchment in raw resource exports and the historical industrial policies once used to counter that dependence. 15 $1.50 Add
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What next?
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What next?

From: Dream Interrupted

In this chapter, Pelletier traces Quebec’s identity transformation from 1975 to the present, revealing the widening gap between traditional Francophone survival politics and a younger, … 15 $1.50 Add
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What Survival Means

What Survival Means

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this chapter, the author reflects on their time in Los Angeles in the 1990s, and her friendship with someone who was dying of AIDS. 12 $1.20 Add
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What the F*ck?

What the F*ck?

From: Stampede

In the opening chapter, the author describes her personal experiences of the Stampede, and how those prompted her to examine the event through a feminist lens. 22 $2.20 Add
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What They Deserve
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What They Deserve

From: Seven Days in Halifax

In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Four of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," focusing on government communications and journalism. Discussions … 12 $1.20 Add
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What to Do? “You Must Move and Act”

What to Do? “You Must Move and Act”

From: Circle Works

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What Treaties Teach About Canadian Sovereignty
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What Treaties Teach About Canadian Sovereignty

From: Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World

This chapter presents Chief Allan Adam’s 2026 brief to Alberta’s government, opposing a proposed independence referendum through the lens of Treaty 8 and Dené sovereignty. 10 $1.00 Add
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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