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Canada wages war on Libya
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Canada wages war on Libya

From: Targeting Libya

This chapter details how as NATO’s war escalated, SNC-Lavalin scrambled to rescue its Libya deals while Canada became a leading participant in a bombing campaign that sidelined African … 31 $3.10 Add
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Canada West Attacked

Canada West Attacked

From: Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68

Describes the Fenian attack on Canada West in 1866 19 $1.90 Add
Canadarm and Collaboration
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Canadarm and Collaboration

How Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds

Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program … 249 View
Canada's Bastions of Empire

Canada’s Bastions of Empire

Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918

This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. … 280 View
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Canada's Colony

Canada’s Colony

Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic

From: Umingmak

Readings in Part Three of this title, entitled "Emperor of the North" discuss Hodgson’s growing power and influence in the communities of the Northwest Territories. Topics … 13 $1.30 Add
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Canada’s Eastward Pipelines: A Corporate Export Swindle, Confronted by Cross-Country Resistance

Canada’s Eastward Pipelines: A Corporate Export Swindle, Confronted by Cross-Country Resistance

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 6 Martin Lukacs examines the anti–tar sands movement in Quebec, focusing on topics such as the Moratoire d’une génération (One-Generation Moratorium), civil … 8 $0.80 Add
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Canada's "international responsibility"
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Canada’s "international responsibility"

From: Targeting Libya

The chapter traces how Canadian capital and engineering firms like SNC and Lavalin became tools of Ottawa’s anti-communist foreign policy during the Cold War, while Western powers tightened … 12 $1.20 Add
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Canada's Leading Metropolis (1896-1914)

Canada’s Leading Metropolis (1896-1914)

From: The History of Montréal

This chapter explores the city’s population growth, social and ethnic divisions, and the nature of city life/the social landscape. Between the end of the nineteenth century and the start of … 16 $1.60 Add
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Canada’s New Carscape:

Canada’s New Carscape:

Town and Country Remade

From: Car Nation

1912-1930. Analyzes the spread of the car in popularity and the freedom it represented to Canadians as you could now travel across the country, the changes to cities because of the car, road … 17 $1.70 Add
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Canada's War on Terror

Canada’s War on Terror

From: Canada in the World

Afghanistan: Canada’s Longest War – “They Don’t Deserve Our Help” – “What the Afghans Need Is Colonizing” – Canada in the War on Terror … 54 $5.40 Add
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Canadian Citizenship and Multiculturalism

Canadian Citizenship and Multiculturalism

From: From Subjects to Citizens

Canadian multiculturalism has been seen in the 1990s as undermining Canadian unity and that the federal government was brought to modify the main orientations of its multiculturalism policy. … 12 $1.20 Add
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Canadian Culture and Canadian Identity

Canadian Culture and Canadian Identity

From: From Subjects to Citizens

Culture, whether we think in terms of the visual arts or literature or music, may have its roots in the community but today it finds its audience outside that community – via television, … 8 $0.80 Add
Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life

Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign … 256 View
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Canadian Dimension and the Great Canadian Health Care Debate

Canadian Dimension and the Great Canadian Health Care Debate

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

The take-away message from half a century of CD articles on both medicare and health is that, at the end of the day, the story of health is largely the story of status, equality and social … 27 $2.70 Add
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Canadian Dimension and the “Other” Ontario

Canadian Dimension and the “Other” Ontario

Radical Reportage through Four Transformative Decades

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

This chapter identifies the key episodes in CD’s coverage of Ontario from 1970 to 2012. 12 $1.20 Add
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Canadian Dimension Covers British Columbia

Canadian Dimension Covers British Columbia

Power, Promises and Pulp Fiction

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

a close reading of fifty years of CD reporting on British Columbia suggests that now is a good time to interrogate what, as working people, our interests really are, and how, in relation to the … 12 $1.20 Add