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Taking the Leap: 2016
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Taking the Leap: 2016

From: From Layton to Singh

Chapter 5 focuses on the NDP’s recovery plan after the upset of the 2015 election. The chapter covers topics including Mulcair’s defence in the leadership review, Alberta NDP’s … 18 $1.80 Add
Targeting Libya

Targeting Libya

How Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for its citizens

In Targeting Libya, investigative journalist Owen Schalk examines how Canadian business and government actors influenced Libya’s fate, from the rise and fall of Muammar Qadhafi to the … 258 View
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Taxing Individual Wealth

Taxing Individual Wealth

From: Share the Wealth!

Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter explores methods for taxing individual wealth, including examples of countries where this … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Teacher to Journalist:

Teacher to Journalist:

Fredericton to Ottawa and Beyond

From: The Golden Age of Liberalism

1955-1960. His time teaching at New Brunswick’s Teachers’ College, In 1959 he left Fredericton for Ottawa and an opportunity at Radio Canada to become a political journalist, 40 $4.00 Add
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Technical Prowess

Technical Prowess

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s impressive technical systems. It discusses the laboratory in Varennes (part of the campus of the Hydro-Quebec’s research institute – … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Testing the Power System

Testing the Power System

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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That’s a Wrap
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That’s a Wrap

From: How Government Really Works

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The 1968 Thinkers' Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism
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The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism

From: 1968 in Canada

From 13 to 15 December 1968, a meeting took place in Toronto that should be considered among the most important contributions to the birth of Canadian multiculturalism: the Thinkers’ … 29 $2.90 Add
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The Administration of Justice, the <i>Charter</i>, and Canada’s National Security

The Administration of Justice, the Charter, and Canada’s National Security

From: In The Balance

Discusses the administration of justice, the Charter and Canada’s national security, focusing on the tensions between state secrecy and the open court principle. Significant cases such as … 26 $2.60 Add
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The Administrative Independence of the Federal Courts
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The Administrative Independence of the Federal Courts

A Case for Reform

From: The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court

This chapter argues that judicial independence is a pillar of our constitutional democracy and as such is a principle anchored in the Canadian state structure and recognized as essential to the … 37 $3.70 Add
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The Affordable Housing Deficit

The Affordable Housing Deficit

Out of the Cold

From: Persistent Poverty

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The Age of Increasing Inequality

The Age of Increasing Inequality

The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1%

For 35 years, Canada has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. It proposes meaningful steps … 248 View
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Chapter 10

Chapter 10

The Agonizing Steps to Freedom

From: Quebec in Question

A fascinating brief history of events in Quebec in 1970, including a full account of FLQ kidnappings, its manifesto, the reaction of federal and provincial authorities, and the imposition of the … 42 $4.20 Add
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The Ambiguities of a Bilingual and Multicultural Canada

The Ambiguities of a Bilingual and Multicultural Canada

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

1972 article by Guy Rocher criticizing the federal government’s 1971 policy on multiculturalism as ambiguous, faulty and dangerous. ; ; 4 $0.40 Add
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The Arguments Against Jury Independence

The Arguments Against Jury Independence

From: The Secret Power of Juries

examines the arguments against jury independence 31 $3.10 Add
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The Art of Possible

The Art of Possible

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

Excerpt of a 1961 book by James Eayrs describing the role of the Prime Minister in relation to the Cabinet and the Governor General with respect to foreign affairs. ; ; 4 $0.40 Add