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Shame and silence in health care

Shame and silence in health care

From: Bent out of Shape

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Ship of Theseus: The Power Wheelchair User and the City
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Ship of Theseus: The Power Wheelchair User and the City

From: Living Disability

Angelo Muredda writes about his experience of using a power wheelchair in Toronto, including how it contributes to his mobility, its challenges, and its relationship to his own body. 8 $0.80 Add
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Shopping Without Borders

Shopping Without Borders

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

Chapter 4 delves into electronic commerce. Traditional taxation principles that were devised more than half a century ago were based on a physical world, with tangible goods, and defined places … 11 $1.10 Add
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Show me the Money
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Show me the Money

From: How Government Really Works

Chapter 7 explores the financial underpinnings of government, where the money comes from, how budgets are drafted and approved and current trends in the Government Financial Management. ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Shut Out

Shut Out

Uncovering the Dynamics of Social Exclusion

From: Telling Tales

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Signed, Sealed and Delivered? The TPP and Canada's Public Postal Service

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
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Smart Cities and the Origins of Utopian Urbanism
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Smart Cities and the Origins of Utopian Urbanism

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: Part 2 explores the origins of utopian urbanism. Topics discussed include history of urban planning, the history of ghetto’s, Bauhaus and the Garden City … 16 $1.60 Add
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Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor Game
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Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor Game

The Lure of Innovation in a Competitive World

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

Chapter 1 explores what leads municipal governments to persue smart city projects, whether they are seen as a quick and easy fix to deeper underlying infrastructure and urban planning issues, and … 15 $1.50 Add
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Smart Cities, Big Data, and a Question of Trust
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Smart Cities, Big Data, and a Question of Trust

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: Part 4 discusses questions of personal data. Topics discussed include open access, data and privacy, data bias, open data, and municipal dashboards. 17 $1.70 Add
Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs
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Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Independent experts analyze often-controversial schemes from Nunavut to Montreal to Toronto’s failed Sidewalk Labs waterfront scheme

"Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can … 200 View
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Smart City Tech: A Primer
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Smart City Tech: A Primer

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: Part 1 explores the tech needed to create a smart city. Discussing topics including what makes technology ‘smart’, ‘machine learning’ … 18 $1.80 Add
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Smart City Tech and the Promise of Green Cities
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Smart City Tech and the Promise of Green Cities

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: Part 5 explores the possibility of green cities with smart innovation. Topics discussed include post-industrial cities, climate change, pollution, urban … 16 $1.60 Add
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Soaring

Soaring

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Afiena Kamminga recounts the story of Cathy. The chapter discusses her difficulty learning, her dyslexia, her time learning with CALP, and more. 3 $0.30 Add
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Social Democracy and a Green New Deal
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Social Democracy and a Green New Deal

PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

Chapter 7 examines the potential role social democracy can play in reshaping the current system, challenging the present neoliberal hegemony with a justice-based Green New Deal to fight the … 21 $2.10 Add
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Social Democracy and Labour
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Social Democracy and Labour

From: The Fire and the Ashes

In this chapter, the author discusses the conditions and circumstances that labour movements faced during his career. Topics include the rise of student activism, the culture wars of the 1970s, … 7 $0.70 Add
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Social Exclusion
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Social Exclusion

From: About Canada: Health and Illness

Chapter Five unpacks the concept of social exclusion and its relationship to health outcomes in Canada, highlighting the experiences of marginalized groups such as Indigenous Peoples, people of … 30 $3.00 Add