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Who Killed the Public Surgery Centre?

Who Killed the Public Surgery Centre?

From: Divided

This essay concerns the shift to private surgeries in Saskatchewan. This policy was meant to reduce the wait times for surgical procedures through a market-based approach, but wait times only … 12 $1.20 Add
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Who Owns Water?

Who Owns Water?

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers discusses international law surrounding water use as well as legislation passed on a national level. 15 $1.50 Add
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Who Stays Healthy? Who Gets Sick?
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Who Stays Healthy? Who Gets Sick?

From: About Canada: Health and Illness

Chapter One discusses the relationship of public policy decisions and socio-economic inequality in Canada to health outcomes, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations. 30 $3.00 Add
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Who Stays, Who Goes and Where

Who Stays, Who Goes and Where

Education and Migration on Digby Neck, 1963-1998

From: Learning to Leave

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Who Wants to Be a Farmer?
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Who Wants to Be a Farmer?

From: Agriculture and the Generation Problem

Topics in this chapter explore the future of global agriculture and include: the aspirations of rural youth, rural youth and collective action and what the future holds for smallholder farms. 29 $2.90 Add
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Who's Protecting Whom?

Who’s Protecting Whom?

Child Welfare and Policing Black Families

From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice

This chapter looks at the over-representation of Black children in the care of the Ontario child welfare system and the implications of this phenomenon, highlighting structural factors such as … ; ; ; 19 $1.90 Add
Whose Streets?

Whose Streets?

The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest

In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with arbitrary state violence on a scale never before seen in Canada. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials … 256 View
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Why are Mothers Still the Default Parent?

Why are Mothers Still the Default Parent?

From: Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism

This chapter highlights and critiques the outdated social constructions and everyday sexism that continue to constrain mothers and fathers. It looks at the many challenges of parenthood typically … 33 $3.30 Add
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Why <i>Butterfly</i> Should Stop Committing Literary Hara-kiri

Why Butterfly Should Stop Committing Literary Hara-kiri

From: Bigotry on Broadway

This chapter explores the racism, fetishism/objectification, and misogyny of Madame Butterfly. 9 $0.90 Add
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Why Can’t We Sell Stuff Anyplace?
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Why Can’t We Sell Stuff Anyplace?

From: Messy Cities

John Lorinc discusses zoning rules that govern commercial activity, and the history of urban retail in cities around the world. 8 $0.80 Add
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Why Dad Cried When I Went to Work at “Chrysler's”

Why Dad Cried When I Went to Work at “Chrysler’s”

From: Experiencing Difference

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Why Do Economic Inequalities Matter?

Why Do Economic Inequalities Matter?

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

Faster economic growth is not a feasible solution for Canada’s problem of increasing inequality. But although technological change will create new problems of job destruction, it also … 20 $2.00 Add
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Why do economic inequalities matter?
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Why do economic inequalities matter?

From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada

In this chapter, the author asks why economic inequality matters in early twenty-first-century Canada. 21 $2.10 Add
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Why Impermanence Matters

Why Impermanence Matters

From: Common Threads

Most creative projects made with green waste and natural materials are meant to have a short life-span and then return to the earth. This goes against everything a Western European sensibility … 14 $1.40 Add
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Why Is It So Difficult to Change Policing?

Why Is It So Difficult to Change Policing?

From: Crisis in Canada's Policing

This chapter addresses some key issues and outlines the various elements that make up police culture. ; 34 $3.40 Add