Social Work
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From  A Bed for the NightThe Struggle for Shelter From: Fight to Win |
In 2017/2018 Ontario Coalition Against Poverty witnessed the greatest crisis in homelessness in 3 decades. This chapter describes a successful campaign to increase Toronto shelter beds by 1,000 … | A. J. Withers | 53 | 2021 | $5.30 Add |
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From  A Blue-Collar Legacy – for Better and for WorseFrom: Shift Change |
This chapter examines the dual nature of Hamilton, and poses key questions about the city. Can history be the basis for a roadmap forward? Are there unique aspects of Hamilton’s past that … | Stephen Dale | 49 | 2021 | $4.90 Add |
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From  A Brief History of Welfare Surveillance in OntarioFrom: Ineligble |
This chapter provides an overview of the history of welfare in Ontario, zoning in on specific policies related to the roles of state power, surveillance, and regulation in the lives of poor … | Krys Maki | 31 | 2021 | $3.10 Add |
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From  NEW! A Call for Radical HealingIntegrating healing into Critical Race Education From: Decolonizing Equity |
In chapter 7, Ozioma Aloziem uses Critical Race Theory (CRT) to offer a framework for radical healing and to argue for the implementation of an emancipatory and embodied kind of education. … | Ozioma Aloziem | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  A Chance EncounterFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter retraces the early years of activists Liz Evans and Mark Townsend. Also the inception of The Portland Hotel at Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which later evolved into PHS Community … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
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From  A Chance to Prove Myself Again – Gordon CousinsFrom: Field Excercises |
Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading tells the story of … | Stephanie Westlund | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From  A ChoiceFrom: About Face |
On Opioids. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Stephen Miller | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! A Circle of Rocks: Cannibal Culture, Kinship and Indigenous Youth in the Saskatchewan Public School SystemFrom: White Benevolence |
In chapter 14, Jas M. Morgan explores the impacts of visual and narrative representations of race and Indigeneity shown in schools to Indigenous youth trying to navigate their own identities and … | Jas M. Morgan | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! A City Without SportFrom: Rebound |
In this chapter, King assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community sports. | Perry King | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From A Drug-Users UnionFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the early years of struggle and the subsequent formation of Vancouver Area Network Drug Users (VANDU). | Travis Lupick | 30 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From  A Generation That Knows the Taste of Tear GasFrom: Resist! |
Darren Stewart | 4 | 2001 | $0.40 Add | |
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From  A Guest of the Government of IraqFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the experience of a Kurdish man from Iraq who was imprisoned by the Iraqi government and the trials he experienced trying to get his family to safety. | David Starr | 15 | 2016 | $1.50 Add |
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From A Kiss for the Riot CopFrom: Resist! |
Sandra Alland | 1 | 2001 | $0.10 Add | |
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From A Moment in TimeFrom: About Face |
On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Ann Dwyer Galway | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From  A New Beginning, and the AfterlifeFrom: Fear of a Black Nation |
This chapter provides a history of the resurgence of Black political activism in Montreal during the 1960s, focusing on the Congress of Black Writers and the Sir George Williams protest. The … | David Austin | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
