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A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act
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A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

This chapter outlines a next-generation assessment framework that incorporates international learning as well as key themes in the Canadian deliberations surrounding the assessment law and policy … ; 21 $2.10 Add
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The Example of the Nordic Countries

The Example of the Nordic Countries

From: Scandinavian Common Sense

Even between countries with comparable overall levels of wealth, and thus of human and material resources, international comparisons reveal great disparities between indicators of poverty and … ; ; 7 $0.70 Add
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The Face of the Future

The Face of the Future

From: Not Just a Pretty Face

Green chemistry, green politics and other hopeful solutions for a healthier tomorrow. 11 $1.10 Add
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The Fight Against Inequality
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The Fight Against Inequality

From: The Fire and the Ashes

In this chapter, Jackson writes about the Great Recession of 2008-2009, and suggests that the functioning of democracies relies on economic and social equality. The best way to achieve this … 5 $0.50 Add
The Fire and the Ashes
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The Fire and the Ashes

Rekindling Democratic Socialism

In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen … 180 View
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The Future is Here

The Future is Here

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter explores challenges faced by Hydro-Quebec and the future of their system and technologies. It explores the possibility of H-Q getting involved in new energy alternatives, in … ; 21 $2.10 Add
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The Future of Power

The Future of Power

Learning to Live Happily Within Limits

From: Power

In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. 63 $6.30 Add
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The Future of Work

The Future of Work

From: Basic Income For Canadians

This chapter looks at our relationship with work as individuals and as a society and how basic income will fundamentally change that relationship. 16 $1.60 Add
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The Garden Invaded

The Garden Invaded

The Harper Years

From: The Tangled Garden

Developments in key Canadian creative industries (eg. television, film, newspapers) during Stephen Harper’s Conservative era (2006 to 2015); how the digital media produced a drastic decline … 37 $3.70 Add
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The Gig Is Up

The Gig Is Up

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

This chapter is a small love note to the iwc (Immigrant Workers Centre) for always being willing to experiment to find new ways to build leadership and solidarity. It’s difficult for unions to … 10 $1.00 Add
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The Glaze Report: Control and Power to the Province (2017-2019)
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The Glaze Report: Control and Power to the Province (2017-2019)

From: The Attack on Nova Scotia's Schools

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The Global Education Reform Movement (2000-2010)
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The Global Education Reform Movement (2000-2010)

From: The Attack on Nova Scotia's Schools

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The Glorious Gate

The Glorious Gate

From: Overrun

This chapter discusses efforts by un United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct a barrier to prevent the Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. 30 $3.00 Add
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The Great Burning

The Great Burning

From: The Memory We Could Be

Humans have caused enough upheaval to heat the entire world — its seas and its skies — by over an entire degree Celsius. Just that one degree of temperature has been enough to trigger … 13 $1.30 Add
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The Great Free Trade Debate
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The Great Free Trade Debate

From: The Fire and the Ashes

This chapter concerns the authors’ work on the free trade debates in 1988, which culminated in the edited collection The Free Trade Deal. 4 $0.40 Add
The Happiness Policy Handbook

The Happiness Policy Handbook

How to Make Happiness and Well-Being the Purpose of Your Government

Thomas Jefferson said that “the purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness.” Yet only now, 270 years later, is the happiness of citizens … 226 View