Public Policy

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The Sleepy Gardeners

The Sleepy Gardeners

The Trudeau Years

From: The Tangled Garden

Canadian policy regarding media and cultural industries in the Trudeau’s government first term (2015 to 2019). How giant American media corporations – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and … 26 $2.60 Add
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The Smart Bill is Coming

The Smart Bill is Coming

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter highlights Hydro-Sherbrooke, a system separate from Hydro-Quebec, and explores the ways in which H-Q could learn from Hydro-Sherbrooke. It then looks to the future of H-Q and the … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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The Solidarity Movement in the Church

The Solidarity Movement in the Church

From: Compassion and Solidarity

From Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others 20 $2.00 Add
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The Southern Border of Mexico in the Age of Globalization

The Southern Border of Mexico in the Age of Globalization

From: Borderlands

This chapter analyzes the importance of Mexico’s southern border as an area involved both in the energy-integration process between Mexico-Central America and in the making of US national … 40 $3.20 Add
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The Special Case of AI and Big Data–Based Policing
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The Special Case of AI and Big Data–Based Policing

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

The Dream of the Smart City: Part 8 explores data-based policing. Topics discussed include facial recognition, surveillance networks., data-intensive policing technologies, and algorithms. 17 $1.70 Add
The Spirit of Africville
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The Spirit of Africville

Third Edition

This classic, which tells the story of Africville and the community’s resilience in the face of government neglect and racism, has been in print since 1992. This third edition brings the story to … 138 View
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The Split

The Split

From: Sweethearts

1960s Looks at the split of the unions into residential locals and the further fracturing of the unions. Zanini is convicted and sent to prison 14 $1.40 Add
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The State of Our Groundwater

The State of Our Groundwater

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers explores how many parts of the world are being impacted or will be impacted by rapidly diminishing and increasingly polluted groundwater sources. 17 $1.70 Add
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Sharing, Community and Decolonization

Sharing, Community and Decolonization

Urban Aboriginal Community Development

From: In Their Own Voices

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The Struggle — at Home and in the World — for Health Care as a Human Right

The Struggle — at Home and in the World — for Health Care as a Human Right

From: Medicare

discusses the need for social justice and equality in terms of public health and democratic socialism 13 $1.30 Add
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The Struggle Continues : The People of Afriville Keep On
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The Struggle Continues : The People of Afriville Keep On

From: The Spirit of Africville

This chapter covers Halifax’s reconciliation efforts concerning Africville, including offering a public apology and paying for a rebuilt community church now used as a museum. It also … 4 $0.40 Add
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The Surprisingly Colourful History of Performance Indicators

The Surprisingly Colourful History of Performance Indicators

From: Counting Out The Scholars

Looks at the historical background that led to the use of Pis and splits this into five phases: I: Nineteenth Century Origins, II: The Cult of Efficiency & Taylorism, III: Behaviourist Social … ; 35 $3.50 Add
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The Sword of Reason and the Power of the Law

The Sword of Reason and the Power of the Law

The Legal Right to a Healthy Environment

From: Damming the Peace

How most other nations have legislation on their books that would have allowed British Columbians to stop the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, using an example … 7 $0.70 Add
The Tangled Garden

The Tangled Garden

A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age

The emergence of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (the FAANGs) has created an unprecedented challenge to Canada’s news, television and film businesses. In this book Richard … 224 View
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The technical is political

The technical is political

From: Bent out of Shape

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