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From ![]() A Brief History of the Happiness Movement |
An Evolution of Sustainable Development: The Happiness Movement – A Few Words about Terminology | Jean Crowder; Laura Musikanski; Rhonda Phillips | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Brief History of Truthiness |
In this chapter, Off traces how "truthiness," coined by Stephen Colbert in 2005, evolved from satire into a defining force in North American politics. It follows the spread of … | Carol Off | 15 | 2026 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() A Brief History of Welfare Surveillance in OntarioFrom: Ineligble |
This chapter provides an overview of the history of welfare in Ontario, zoning in on specific policies related to the roles of state power, surveillance, and regulation in the lives of poor … | Krys Maki | 31 | 2021 | $3.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Brief Introduction to Local Government |
This chapter orients the reader to the scope, brief history, language, legal frameworks, municipal structures and politics of local government in Canada. It also introduces the case study … | Joseph Lyons; Kate Graham; Zachary Spicer | 30 | 2020 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() A Canadian Response to an American WarFrom: Living with Uncle |
Looks at the War in Afghanistan and Iraq as American wars and how Canada is implicated by them because of its integration with the US. Examines the current economy of war | Avi Lewis | 13 | 2006 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() A Cannabis TimelineA Potted History From: Billion Dollar Start-Up |
A timeline of the Cannabis industry in Canada | Adam Miron; Julie Beun; Sébastien St-Louis | 1 | 2021 | $0.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Changing Chinatown: On Gentrification and ResilienceFrom: White Riot |
In this chapter, Ma explores Vancouver’s Chinatown: its history, the impact of gentrification and new urban developments, and the resilience of its community members. | Melody 馬勻雅 Ma | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Clash of Agendas: The Teacher Job Action (2016-2017) |
Grant Frost | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add | |
![]() A Communist for the RCMPThe Uncovered Story of a Social Movement Informant |
In 1941, the RCMP recruited Frank Hadesbeck, a Spanish Civil War veteran, as a paid informant to infiltrate the Communist Party. For decades, he informed not only upon communists, but also upon … | Dennis Gruending | 258 | 2024 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! “A Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber”Adorno’s “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda” From: Spectres of Fascism |
In this chapter authoritarianism and neoliberalism are explored through Theodor W. Adorno’s essay “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda” | Samir Gandesha | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Conflict of Interest: Second Congo War1997–2003 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter follows the Second Congo War from 1997 to 2003. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() A Coup by Any Other Name… |
In Chapter 5, Philpot discusses the article and later book The Genocide Fax by staff writer for The New Yorker Philip Gourevitch, who exposed a private fax that General Roméo Dallaire sent … | Robin Philpot | 19 | 2013 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() A Crew of One |
Analyzes the safety practices of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, the railway which ran through Lac-Mégantic: How the company pushed for single member crews and regularly ignored … | Bruce Campbell | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() A Dangerous Deed: The Constitution Act, 1982From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
1983 article by Donald V. Smiley arguing that the gains from enacting the Constitution Act, 1982 were outweighed by damage done to Canada’s legal, political and constitutional order. | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A Democratic Socialist FutureFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
In his concluding chapter, the author surveys the political present, and notes that narratives about elections being won by appealing to the "mushy centre" are disproven by the success … | Andrew Jackson | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() A Double LifeFrom: A Communist for the RCMP |
Dennis Gruending | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |


















