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Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

This chapter is about how migrant and racialized worker organizations took leadership in broad-based campaigns to improve conditions for the entire working class. As one example, the chapter … 12 $1.20 Add
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Minimizing Farming’s Water Needs

Minimizing Farming’s Water Needs

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers looks at the vast amount of water used by the agricultural sector and ways to reduce that total, either by changing how we grow crops or by changing which crops we grow. 16 $1.60 Add
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Miyo-Mâhcihowin:

Miyo-Mâhcihowin:

Self-determination, Social Determinants, and Indigenous Health

From: Medicare

Examines that now is the time to incorporate an indigenous understanding of health into our medicare system ; 8 $0.80 Add
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Mobilizing Labour

Mobilizing Labour

Just Transition, Then and Now

From: A Good War

In Chapter 7, Klein examines the role of labour in the fight for climate action. Klein argues that through examining the mobilization of the labor and work force during and after the Second World … 36 $3.60 Add
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Modeling an Escape from Overshoot

Modeling an Escape from Overshoot

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the author explores frameworks for escaping overshoot. 32 $3.20 Add
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Monday, July 22, 2024
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Monday, July 22, 2024

From: Jasper on Fire

In this chapter, Scace examines the night of July 22, 2024, when Jasper, Alberta, faced a rapid mass evacuation after multiple wildfires threatened the town simultaneously. 12 $1.20 Add
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Money and power

Money and power

What is to be done?

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

The last chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? nails home the theme of the whole book, that public transit that works for the climate and for all people is a matter of political … 20 $2.00 Add
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Strategic and Regional Environmental Assessments
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Strategic and Regional Environmental Assessments

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter introduces the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)provisions of the Act, including an examination of the strengths and weaknesses of each provision. Their assessment is informed … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Montreal
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Montreal

The Ambiguity of the Smart City

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

Chapter 7 explores Montreal’s various projects in the 21st century which were taken with the goal of integrating technology into the urban landscape. The chapter explores how different … 13 $1.30 Add
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More People Using Ever More Water

More People Using Ever More Water

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers looks at the impact of population growth on water availability, and tries to answer the question of whether there will be enough clean, safe water for a more populous … 9 $0.90 Add
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Moving Forward

Moving Forward

From: The Happiness Policy Handbook

Overcoming Impediments, Choosing Pathways – Connecting to Community – Criteria for Taking Action – Concluding Remarks on the Happiness Movement ; ; 8 $0.80 Add
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Moving People: Relocation and Urban Renewal
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Moving People: Relocation and Urban Renewal

From: The Spirit of Africville

In this chapter, Donald Clairmont describes how the City of Halifax forcibly displaced the residents of Africville in the name of urban renewal. Clairmont explains how the city used bureaucratic … 22 $2.20 Add
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Multiculturalism already unbound

Multiculturalism already unbound

From: Home and Native Land

Considers how forms of citizenship participation practiced by Indian immigrants within the multicultural framework of Canada simultaneously configure local and transnational community … 24 $2.40 Add
Murder in Renfrew County
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Murder in Renfrew County

The predator who left three women dead- and the justice system that failed to stop him

The murder of three women in Ontario’s Renfrew County, and the inquest into violence against women that followed. The story of the murder of three women in Ontario’s Renfrew county by … 226 View
My Fight for Canadian Healthcare

My Fight for Canadian Healthcare

A Thirty Year Battle to Put Patients First

In 1995, Vancouver orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Brian Day opened the Cambie Surgery Centre, a private surgical clinic that provided patients with more timely care than could be found amid the … 440 View
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My Teacher
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My Teacher

From: Messy Cities

Carolynne Crawley writes about Mama Snapping Turtle, who lives in Toronto’s High Park, and their advocacy work for further Turtle relatives in city parks. 4 $0.40 Add