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Innisfil and Uber

A Rural Municipality’s Misadventures in Smart Public Transit

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

Chapter 10 explores smart city projects that make use of ridesharing and their pitfalls. 11 $1.10 Add
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Karl Subban’s Philosophy of Life, Hockey, and Inclusion

From: Rebound

This chapter profiles another Jamaican Canadian: Karl Subban, the father of the NHL player P.K. Subban. 8 $0.80 Add
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Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

This chapter illustrates how new unions and worker centres emerged to successfully organize in global cities like Toronto, New York and London and within the chokepoints of logistics hubs for … 14 $1.40 Add
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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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Of Motors and Batteries

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter highlights some of H-Q’s commercial exploits as well as Karim Zaghib’s work and impacts on Hydro-Quebec. ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Paris

Big Oil Gets Its Deal

From: The Big Stall

Analyzes the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change and reports on how the proceedings came to be dominated by corporate interests. Analyzes the impact of decades of well funded denialism. Suggests … 22 $2.20 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Housing and Community Development

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Community development requires good urban design to foster connection and neighborliness, and programs, policies, and initiatives to encourage healthy human interaction, including safety, … 14 $1.40 Add
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Participation and Accountability

New Avenues for Human Rights Engagement with the Distribution of Health Resources in Canada

From: Advancing Social Rights in Canada

Analysis of trends in health and human rights, with a proposal for ways in which they might open new avenues for human rights scrutiny of the distribution of health resources in Canada. 33 $3.30 Add
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Peace after the Sun Goes Down

From: Disarming Conflict

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Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sands

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … 11 $1.10 Add
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Prime Suspect

Murder in Britain

From: Beyond Criminology

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Purpose, Need, and Alternatives Through the Lens of Sustainability and the Public Interest

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter focuses on four key Section 22 factors that inform IA processes for projects within federal jurisdiction that are designated for assessment under the Act: the purpose of the project, … 24 $2.40 Add
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Science and the second body

From: Bent out of Shape

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Seeing the Bigger Picture

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Noeline Bridge recounts the story of Dennis. The story discusses his working life, challenges, unions, and more. 4 $0.40 Add
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Signed, Sealed and Delivered? The TPP and Canada’s Public Postal Service

From: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada

Daniel Sheppard and Louis Century, lawyers at Goldblatt Partners, provide a compelling case study that warns how corporate interests in the U.S. might take advantage of these novel provisions to … ; 13 $1.30 Add