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Ideology is Trumping Economic Reality

From: Ideology over Economics

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Les pratiques culturelles en mutation a la fin du XXe siecle

La situation au Quebec

From: Accounting for Culture

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Étude de quatre cas qui illustrent l’évolution des pratiques culturelles pendant la période allant de 1979 à 1999 et qui révèlent un certain remplacement des … 24 $2.88 Add
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Market-based Health Care in the United States and its Lessons for Canada

From: Medicare

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Analyzes the market-based health care system in the US and what Canada can learn from it. Concludes that The US experience has shown the world that, when you allow investor-owned for-profit … 11 $1.10 Add
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Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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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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More People Using Ever More Water

From: Back to the Well

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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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Neo-Conservative Times

From: Our Lives: Canada after 1945

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Since 1980. Though the Right would have its victories, workers, women’s groups, Natives and Regional Interests demanded with some success that their interests be accomodated as well. Pays … 27 $2.70 Add
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Oil Sands Binges, Rebrands

From: The Big Stall

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Analyzes the relationship between the oil industry and the Alberta government. The industry’s approach shifted to accepting a cap on carbon emissions which permitted ongoing operations and … 21 $2.10 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Community Economic Development

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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Sustainable community economic development (CED) is a feasible, community-based alternative to the economy we are familiar with — an economy focused on growth rather than development, on … 20 $2.00 Add
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Personal Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

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* Well-Being is a Choice * Money, Your Life and Happiness 8 $0.80 Add
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Pulling the levers of power

From Lougheed to Klein

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the transition from Peter Lougheed’s government and Ralph Klein’s arrival as premier with focus paid to the political and economic … 7 $0.70 Add
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Reading for Love

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

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Kathie Goggin recounts the story of Bev. The story discusses his family’s illiteracy, challenges in school, being experienced for jobs but not qualified as he could not past tests, his … 5 $0.50 Add
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Reforming the comfort zone so that doctors are no longer in denial

From: Doctors in Denial

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Outlines the needed reforms to the interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession, outlining industry’s role, government’s role, and the medical … 45 $4.50 Add
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Self-help

From: Equal as Citizens

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1990s. Looks at the emergence of a counter to the Welfare State built on two tennents self-help through entrepreneurship and economic efficiency through intergovernmental cooperation using the … 13 $1.30 Add
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Selling Radian6

From: Unicorn in the Woods

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In this chapter, Pitts outlines the sale of Radian6 to Salesforce, a fast-growing company based on the West Coast. This led to a financial windfall for all involved. 15 $1.50 Add
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Still Spilling

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

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Critical review of the measures put in place by the Harper government during its last year in office. Analyzes whether those measures, such as new safety management system regulations, changes to … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Bargain Builders

From: Sweethearts

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1960s the development of new building techniques that maximized profits by decreasing the need for skilled labour and finding cheaper materials. There are also inter-union disagreements for control 12 $1.20 Add