Public Policy
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From ![]() The Mechanic and the ArchitectFrom: The Big Stall |
Describes how neo-liberals came to embrace carbon taxes as well as the neo-liberal approach to carbon taxation. Presents progresive economists’ critique of the BC carbon tax which aruges … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
![]() The Memory We Could BeOvercoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future |
Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 338 | 2018 | View |
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From ![]() The Might of MemoryFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
The fight to tackle climate change is a fight to determine the fatality of the future. A fight over the vindication of life. It will require much of us: to unlearn our despair and learn our … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() The Mob and Its MoneyFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. Looks at the mob’s expansion into legitimate business focusing on housing development. Corruption is explored | Catherine Wismer | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Most Ridiculous Year EverFrom: Unicorn in the Woods |
This chapter recount’s Chris Newton’s diagnosis with melanoma, and the sale of Q1 Labs in fall 2011 for $600 million U.S. dollars. | Gordon Pitts | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Moving Picture of Incomes |
Inequality of annual incomes is like a snapshot of inequality, which only captures part of the moving picture of our fluctuating incomes. Lifetime income depends on career progression and whether … | Lars Osberg | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The moving picture of incomes |
In this chapter, the author analyzes the meaning of statistics about disparities in income and what they actually say about economic inequality and well-being in Canada. He points out that the … | Lars Osberg | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Myth of Community, Family and FriendsFrom: Telling Tales |
Kate Bezanson; Sheila Neysmith | 26 | 2005 | $2.60 Add | |
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From ![]() The NDP in a world made for oilFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the rise of Rachel Notley’s NDP party in Alberta with focus on the change in policy towards the oil industry that occurred during the … | Kevin Taft | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Need for a Different WorldviewFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Need for A Different Worldview suggests that a shift is needed to a different view of reality, one that is based on the fact of interconnectedness rather than the illusion of separateness, a … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 29 | 2011 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() Remembering Bell and BaldwinFrom: Fastest in the World |
1957. Looks at the construction and launch of the Bras d’Or (Also known as R-103 and renamed Baddeck in 1962), an experimental prototype. | John Boileau | 10 | 2004 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() The New BuildersFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. looks at the housing boom that occurred after the war due to the population swell. The decision to start building high rises | Catherine Wismer | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The New England PropositionFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on higher education. Discussions centred on the potential for … | Robert Ashe | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() The New GospelFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes neo-liberal environmental policies which avoided any negative impact on corporations during the 2000s. The British Columbia carbon tax is used as a case study to show how it is business … | Donald Gutstein | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() The New Wageless WorkerVolunteering and Market-Guided Health Care Reform From: Care and Consequences |
Elizabeth Esteves | 23 | 2000 | $2.53 Add | |
![]() NEW! The Next Generation of Impact AssessmentA Critical Review of the Canadian Impact Assessment Act |
Legislated impact assessment requirements were first introduced over fifty years ago with the National Environmental Policy Act in the United States and have since spread to over a hundred and … | A. John Sinclair; Meinhard Doelle | 614 | 2021 | View |
















