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On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas

Part One: Dispossession at Home

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

In Chapter 5, author Ingrid Waldron examines the success of the grassroots activism of the Mi’kmaq grandmothers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia who … 19 $1.90 Add
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Orange Crash: the 2015 Federal Election

From: From Layton to Singh

Chapter 4 examines the NDP’s failure to maintain the surge in popularity experienced under Layton’s leadership in the 2015 Federal Election. The chapter covers topics including … 19 $1.90 Add
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Our bodies, our minds, mental shortcuts, and the media

From: Too Dumb for Democracy?

Chapter Four focuses on why it is so difficult to make well informed discussions. The chapter explores our biological and psychological motivations behind our abilities towards good political … 27 $2.70 Add
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Our Historical Presence in Gespe’gewa’gi

From: Nta'tuhwaqanminen Our Story

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Paralyzed and Divided Undergovernance

From: Canadian Policing

In Paralyzed and Divided Undergovernance author Kent Roach studies the underlying justification of police power and examines the question of who regulates the police on federal, provincial, or … 33 $3.30 Add
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Escaping the Basement

From: Billion Dollar Start-Up

In the first chapter, the founders of HEXO, now a billion dollar cannabis company, recall the founding of the company. The chapter provides brief biographies of each of the founders and their … ; ; 62 $6.20 Add
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Part III: Class Conflict

From: Cobalt

Part III contains Chapter 9: Class War in Cobalt, Chapter 10: A Place Called Hell, Chapter 11: Empire Ontario and Temagami, and Chapter 12: The Birth of an Industry. 45 $4.50 Add
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Pipeline on Wheels

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

Identifies how big corporations moved to get fracked North Dakota Bakken oil and bitumen to refineries, regularly ignoring basic safety practices. 9 $0.90 Add
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Pluralism

From: State Theories Third Edition

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Political Correctness

Pro: Michael Eric Dyson and Michelle Goldberg , Con: Stephen Fry and Jordan Peterson

From: Political Correctness

This reading consists of a transcript of the Munk Debate on Political Correctness. The resolution being debated is "What you call Political Correctness, I Call Progress". Arguing the … ; ; ; ; 65 $7.80 Add
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Political Institutions

From: Thirty Years of Failure

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Poverty and Inequality

From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada

In this chapter, the author details how incomes at the bottom of the income distribution scale have dramatically eroded in Canada in recent years. 29 $2.90 Add
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Power in the Anthropocene

The Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels

From: Power

This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … 46 $4.60 Add
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Precarious Work: How Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate Poverty

From: Persistent Poverty

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Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s Waterfront

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 4 explores how smart cities projects allow private companies to shape municipal policies to suit their own interests as opposed to the interests of the population. 15 $1.50 Add