2024
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From  NEW! A Coming CapitalismThe Nineteenth-Century Transportation Revolution From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter examines the transportation revolution in Canada in the nineteenth century. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! A Fateful Transition, 1870–90Big Industries, Big Banks From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the rise of big Industry and Banking in Canada in the late nineteenth century. | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! A friend to labour?The Trudeau record on labour rights and labour relations From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s record on labour rights and labour relations. | Stephanie Ross | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! A Nineteenth-Century War of ResistanceSettler “Unionists,” “Half-Breeds,” “Indians,” and the Uprising in the North-West, 1885 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at the Canadian Pacific Railway’s intrusion further west and the ensuing conflicts with Indigenous and Metis populations, Louis Riel’s Provisional Government and … | Bryan D. Palmer | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! A Visionary Declaration from the Amazon |
This chapter explores efforts by Indigenous groups advocating for permanent land rights and environmental protections, highlighting the work of women’s organizations in particular. Lake … | Osprey Orielle Lake | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Aboriginal Title: A Legal AnalysisFrom: Our Land The Maritimes |
This chapter analyzes, from a legal perspective, the existence of Aboriginal title claims in the Maritimes, identifying the various procedural issues and restrictive requirements involved in … | A.J Semple; G.P. Gould | 61 | 2024 | $6.10 Add |
 NEW! About Canada: Health and IllnessThird Edition |
The third edition of Health and Illness shows how inequitable distribution of the social determinants of health are determined by public policy decisions. Dennis Raphael updates … | Dennis Raphael | 288 | 2024 | View |
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From  NEW! Accessible Housing Is a Human RightFrom: Living Disability |
David Meyers writes about accessible housing as a human right. He explains that governments across Canada do not meet the needs of disabled people for accessible housing, and that disability-led … | David Meyers | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Acknowledgements; About the authors; Endnotes |
This section contains the author’s acknowledgements, information about the contributors of this book, and the endnotes. | James Hughes | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Actors: The Rise of Transnational Professional Service FirmsFrom: The Consulting Trap |
Chapter Two describes the history of TPSFs (transnational professional service firms), from the late nineteeth century to the 1990s and early 2000s.The authors divide the history into four major … | Chris Hurl; Leah B. Werner | 35 | 2024 | $3.50 Add |
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From NEW! Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880sFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter looks at John A. MacDonald’s National Policy in the 1870s ‘ and 1880s’ post-Confederation Canada in the form of railroads, tariffs and immigration, as well as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Ancient Trees and Ancestral Warnings |
This chapter describes the connection between deforestation and the loss of Indigenous land rights. Using the resilience and interconnectivity of trees as a metaphor, Lake outlines how various … | Osprey Orielle Lake | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! AppendixReflections on Civil Disobedience in the Face of Environmental and Colonial Injustice by D.B. Tindall From: Standing on High Ground |
In this appendix D.B Tindall discusses past collective action and social movements that have resisted the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX), as well as the reasons why people engage in … | Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! AppendixWhere to Start? Practical Tips for Getting Involved Right Now From: Ecology for the 99% |
This appendix outlines a few simple principles to help get you started in activism. | Alain Savard; Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier; Charles Simard; Clément de Gaulejac; Frédéric Legault | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! AssimilationFrom: Our Land The Maritimes |
This chapter focuses on the post-confederation assimilation policies imposed on Indigenous peoples in the Maritime provinces. Many of these policies resulted from the Indian Act of 1876 which … | A.J Semple; G.P. Gould | 47 | 2024 | $4.70 Add |
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From  NEW! At the Epicenter: Tobias LütkeFrom: The Shopify Story |
This chapter highlights Tobias Lütke’s early childhood and career as a computer programmer. | Larry MacDonald | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
