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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
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The Happiness-Sustainability Connection

The Happiness-Sustainability Connection

From: The Happiness Policy Handbook

Climate Change – The Local-Global Connection: Community Solutions to Sustainable Development – Connecting Sustainable Development to Happiness Through Indicators ; ; 5 $0.50 Add
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The Harbord Class of ’33

The Harbord Class of ’33

From: Sweethearts

Looks at the Harbord Class of 1933, comprised of Jews, and the discrimmination they faced from Hitler supporters 9 $0.90 Add
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The Hardest Thing I Ever Did

The Hardest Thing I Ever Did

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Dawn Watson recounts the story of Raymond. The chapter discusses his frustrations with being unable to help his daughter with her schoolwork, being unable to reproduce his signature, Polly … 4 $0.40 Add
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The Hatred of Democracy

The Hatred of Democracy

From: In Defiance

How well does democracy work when the issues become polarized? The student debate raises the issues of decision making: out in the open or only at the ballot box? What happens when the media … ; 11 $1.10 Add
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The Housing Crisis That Isn’t
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The Housing Crisis That Isn’t

From: The Tenant Class

Ricardo introduces his argument that there is no "housing crisis" in Canada but instead a housing market that functions exactly how it was built to. He describes this book as being a … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Impact of Canadian Health Care Reform on recent Women Immigrants and Refugees

The Impact of Canadian Health Care Reform on recent Women Immigrants and Refugees

From: Care and Consequences

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The Independent Union

The Independent Union

From: Sweethearts

1960s Zanini and his independent Canadian Union in Concrete Forming, acqusations of it being a front for the mob 10 $1.00 Add