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Legalizing Theft

Legalizing Theft

A Short Guide to Tax Havens

 When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are frozen, when our living conditions are precarious, it is because of tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax … 125 View
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Lessons and Recommendations

Lessons and Recommendations

From: No Debate

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 In this chapter, Thompson outlines lessons he belives can be learned from the York University conference controversy and offers recommendations for protecting academic freedom in Canada. 6 $0.60 Add
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Lester B. Pearson
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Lester B. Pearson

From: The Prime Ministers

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 In this chapter, Stewart examines the tenure of Lester B. Pearson, Canada’s prime minister from 1963 to 1968. 19 $1.90 Add
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Let’s Make a Deal

Let’s Make a Deal

From: The Two Michaels

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 In this chapter, Blanchfield and Osler Hampson examine how Canada’s effort to secure the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, detained in China since December 2018, became … ; 18 $1.80 Add
Let's Move On

Let’s Move On

Paul Okalik Speaks Out

 Pangnirtung, where Paul Okalik was born, has survived starvation, epidemics, relocation, foreign language schooling, and confrontation with the Canadian justice system. That is what prompted Paul … ; 200 View
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Back to the Future

Back to the Future

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

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 Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel looks the many different documents that have outlined solutions to correct the relationship between the Canadian government and Indigenous peoples including the … 6 $0.60 Add
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Letting the People Decide: When Elections Aren’t Enough

Letting the People Decide: When Elections Aren’t Enough

From: Democratizing the Constitution

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 Discussion of the role of elections as one factor contributing to responsible government in a parliamentary democracy. 47 $4.70 Add
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Liberate Dead Capital on First Nation Reserves

Liberate Dead Capital on First Nation Reserves

From: Harperism

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 Harper’s dealings and policy regarding first nations and reserves. Looks at the First Nations Property Ownership Act. Analyzes how the harper government has painted the problems facing … 37 $3.70 Add
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Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Liberty vs. The Dollar

From: Quebec in Question

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 A brief description of the colonial state of Quebec society — cultural, social, economic — and the status of Quebeckers as second class citizens within Canada in the postwar period, … 15 $1.50 Add
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Libya: Year Zero
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Libya: Year Zero

From: Targeting Libya

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 This chapter looks at the close ties that developed between Canada and SNC Lavalin and the Qadaffi regime in the early 2000s and the dramatic shift in this relationship only a few years later, … 6 $0.60 Add
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Libya from the Ottomans to King Idris
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Libya from the Ottomans to King Idris

From: Targeting Libya

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 This chapter traces Libya’s history over centuries of foreign domination and the fight among Western countries over the control of its oil wealth and the rise of Muammar Qadaffi, who, … 8 $0.80 Add
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Libya: NATO Creates a Failed State

Libya: NATO Creates a Failed State

From: Oil and World Politics

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 Analyzes how NATO countries, including Canada, interpreted a UN resolution as justifying an aerial war against Libya in 2011, claimed humanitarian motives (Responsibility to Protect), and … 17 $1.70 Add
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Libyan Pan-Africanism and Its Discontents

Libyan Pan-Africanism and Its Discontents

From: Slouching Towards Sirte

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 In Chapter Three, Forte focus on Pan-Africanism and the relationships between Gaddafi’s Libya and key African Leaders. Forte highlights how much of Gaddafi’s thinking followed in the … 50 $5.00 Add