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From  Silicon Valley NorthFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Howitt examines the growth of Kitchener-Waterloo’s growing reputation as a tech leader from the perspective of several staff and executives of other tech companies in the area. | Chuck Howitt | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From Silver LiningFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Howitt outlines the years following BlackBerry’s collapse, noting how many of the talented and educated tech workers BlackBerry was forced to lay off stayed in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, … | Chuck Howitt | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Silvia Straka |
In this chapter, Straka shares personal journey as an Austrian-Canadian settler coming to terms with Canada’s colonial history. | Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara; Silvia Staka | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Sing for PalestineFrom: Razing Palestine |
In this chapter, Blanding recounts the 2024 wrongful dismissal of musician and activist Amy Blanding from Northern Health in British Columbia, triggered by her pro-Palestinian songwriting and … | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add | |
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From  NEW! Singapore: Push vs. Pull Information Sharing — Treating Public Access as a Given, Discussing the role of open data in stimulating innovation through partnerships with government, the private sector, and civil society |
In this chapter, Malone examines how Singapore treats public access to government data as a default, contrasting this proactive "push" strategy with Canada’s reactive, … | Matt Malone | 17 | 2026 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Singled Out: South Africa, Israel, and Accusations of Unfair Criticism |
In Chapter 3, Michael Bueckert explores the problems of using the 3 “Ds” (demonization, double standards or delegitimization) to divert criticism away from Israel. He explores this framework and … | Michael Bueckert | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Sink or Swim in ParisFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts his first posting in Paris in 1969, at Canada’s UNESCO delegation. | Roger Turene | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Sir John J.C. Abbott, Sir John S. D. Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, and Sir Charles TupperFrom: The Prime Ministers |
In this chapter, Stewart examines the four Conservative prime ministers that governed Canada between 1891 and 1896: Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper. | J.D.M. Stewart | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Sir Robert BordenFrom: The Prime Ministers |
In this chapter, Stewart examines Sir Robert Borden’s tenure as Canada’s eighth prime minister from 1911 to 1920, a period dominated by the First World War. | J.D.M. Stewart | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Sir Wilfrid LaurierFrom: The Prime Ministers |
In this chapter, Stewart examines the tenure of Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1841–1919), who served as Canada’s seventh prime minister from 1896 to 1911, leading the Liberal Party through a … | J.D.M. Stewart | 24 | 2025 | $2.40 Add |
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From  SirteKeystone of Independence From: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In Chapter One Sirte: Keystone of Independence, Forte contrasts the city of Sirte– found to be in near total ruin by the end of the 2011 Libyan Civil War– to the Sirte which was once … | Maximilian C. Forte | 39 | 2012 | $3.90 Add |
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From SirteTouchstone of Imperialism From: Slouching Towards Sirte |
In Chapter Two Sirte: Touchstone of Imperialism, Forte examines how Sirte represented a post-colonial Libya, as the seat of the Al-Fateh Revolution and later the focus of international attention … | Maximilian C. Forte | 68 | 2012 | $6.80 Add |
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From  Sisters in StruggleFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes as context the recent history of the Sudan, and recounts one family’s experience living through the 1983-84 violence in the country, their journey to refugee camps in Ethiopia and … | David Starr | 17 | 2016 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Skeletons in the ClosetFrom: Family Ties |
This chapter discusses Canada’s modern understanding of its relationship to Axis powers, and the need for transparent political accountability rather than a sanitized public memory. | Peter McFarlane | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Slave-Descendants, Diaspora Subjects, and World CitizensPaul Gilroy’s Historical Sensibility From: Thinking While Black |
In this chapter the author further examines Paul Gilroy’s work and his contributions to cultural criticism and black academia. The topics explored in this chapter included, <Young Soul … | Daniel McNeil | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
Slouching Towards SirteNATO's War on Libya and Africa |
NATO’s war in Libya was proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing in the name of “saving lives.” Attempts at diplomacy were stifled. Peace talks were subverted. … | Maximilian C. Forte | 344 | 2012 | View |
