2024

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A Coming Capitalism

The 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. 17 $1.70 Add
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A Fateful Transition, 1870–90

Big 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. 12 $1.20 Add
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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. 15 $1.50 Add
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A Nineteenth-Century War of Resistance

Settler “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 … 18 $1.80 Add
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A Visionary Declaration from the Amazon

From: The Story is in Our Bones

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 … 18 $1.80 Add
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About Canada: Health and Illness

Third 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 … 288 View
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Acknowledgements; About the authors; Endnotes

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

This section contains the author’s acknowledgements, information about the contributors of this book, and the endnotes. 13 $1.30 Add
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Actors: The Rise of Transnational Professional Service Firms

From: 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 … 35 $3.50 Add
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Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880s

From: 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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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Ancient Trees and Ancestral Warnings

From: The Story is in Our Bones

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 … 22 $2.20 Add
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Author’s Note and Foreward

From: The Story is in Our Bones

In the author’s note and foreward, Lake and Camp-Horinek discuss the ecological impact of human systems and ways our collective worldview must change in order to address the issue. ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Brad Danks: On the Future of Canadian Broadcasting

From: Canada Vs California

In an interview with brad Danks CEO of OutTv, Howard Law and Brad Danks discuss the future of broadcasting and how traditional models are becoming increasingly outdated. 3 $0.30 Add
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Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge

What It Will Take to Deal with American Decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis

Neoliberalism arrived in Ottawa with the Mulroney government in 1984, and has continued as widely accepted common sense about government until today. Neoliberalism’s basic tenets – … 184 View
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Bricks (and Timber) in the Road to Capital Accumulation, 1795–1850

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter takes a look at capital accumulation in Canada in the early nineteenth century through the development of resources such as lumber and mining and its impact of Indigenous populations … 11 $1.10 Add
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British North America, the American Revolution, and Land

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter takes a look at British rule in North America in the late eighteenth century, Mi’kmaq treaty negotiations, the impact of the westward movement of the Fur Trade on Indigenous … 13 $1.30 Add
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Building a Relationship with the Storied Land

From: The Story is in Our Bones

This chapter discusses how modern mapping practices perpetuate colonial views of the world and contribute to the erasure of Indigenous Peoples and their territories. 12 $1.20 Add