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Diagnosing the Disease

Diagnosing the Disease

From: Curing Affluenza

Chapter 1 focuses on defining or diagnosing ‘affluenza’, discussing topics including environmental destruction, global inequality, culture of wasteful materialism, technological … 26 $2.60 Add
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Digging Holes

Digging Holes

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Marilyn Lerch recounts the story of Joe. The story discusses dropping out of high school, helplessness, shame, abuse, self-doubt, and his journey to receiving his GED (General Educational Development). 5 $0.50 Add
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Digging Up the North Market

Digging Up the North Market

From: The Ward Uncovered

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Digital Racism
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Digital Racism

The Re-Shaping of Consent, Privacy, Knowledge and Notions of the Public

From: Unravelling Research

In Chapter 9 author Anne O’Connell focuses on how corporate practices of digital data management intersect with academic research in ways that sidestep ethical institutional safeguards and … 29 $2.90 Add
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Digital Sovereignty in the New Age of Gunboat Diplomacy
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Digital Sovereignty in the New Age of Gunboat Diplomacy

From: Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World

In this chapter, da Mota and Osbourne discuss Canada’s growing vulnerability to American digital and economic coercion within a renewed era of gunboat diplomacy. 13 $1.30 Add
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Digital Sovereignty Is Both National and Personal
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Digital Sovereignty Is Both National and Personal

From: Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World

In this chapter, Tapscott examines how artificial intelligence and the collapse of the postwar order threaten Canada’s independence. 13 $1.30 Add
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Dilemmas in National Security Law

Dilemmas in National Security Law

From: National Security Law

Explores the pertinent dilemmas that exist in national security law, particularly focusing on the balance between national security and other fundamental rights, the question of democratic … 5 $0.50 Add
Dinner on Mars
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Dinner on Mars

The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth

From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore leading-edge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Mars — and 9 billion Earthlings too … ; 232 View
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Diplomacy

Diplomacy

From: Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy

This chapter is Rob Rolfe’s poem "Diplomacy." 1 $0.10 Add
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Dippers

Dippers

From: Sweethearts

1950-1960. Italian Immigration to Canada in the early 1950s their need to find work and finding jubs in construction. Explores the creation of unions for housing workers 18 $1.80 Add
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Dirty Books and Dirty Looks
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Dirty Books and Dirty Looks

From: Vancouver Vice

In this chapter, Chapman describes the Vice squad’s efforts to bring down the Wayne Harris crime ring, and how these were disrupted by the new mayor of Vancouver’s focus on … 17 $1.70 Add
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Disability: A Fairy Tale

Disability: A Fairy Tale

From: Disfigured

Chapter 2 focuses on concepts of disability through time, discussing topics including the social model of disability and the medical model of disability, disability as something to be cured, … 28 $2.80 Add
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Disability at the Desk and Beyond
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Disability at the Desk and Beyond

From: Living Disability

Anika Abdullah writes about disability and employment. She discusses how many workplaces and employers are not ready for disabled workers, the provincial rules in Ontario, the difficulty of … 9 $0.90 Add
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Disability Doesn't Discriminate

Disability Doesn’t Discriminate

But Programs and Policies Do

From: Divided

This essay examines the cutbacks to Saskatchewan’s disability assistance programs, which were driven by divisive austerity principles. 14 $1.40 Add