2024
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 NEW! Canada Vs CaliforniaHow Ottawa took on Netflix and the streaming giants |
Canada vs California provides a road map of the tense battle between Canadian content and California’s billion dollar businesses that threaten to drown it out. Howard Law’s Canada vs. … | Howard Law | 232 | 2024 | View |
 NEW! Ending Homelessness in CanadaThe Case for Homelessness Prevention |
Homelessness is at critical levels. This book identifies the causes and offers ideas about what it will take to prevent Canadians from finding themselves without a roof over their head. More … | James Hughes | 186 | 2024 | View |
 NEW! Murder in Renfrew CountyThe predator who left three women dead- and the justice system that failed to stop him |
The murder of three women in Ontario’s Renfrew County, and the inquest into violence against women that followed. The story of the murder of three women in Ontario’s Renfrew county by … | Dean Beeby | 226 | 2024 | View |
 NEW! Runaway ClimateWhat the geological past can tell us about the coming climate change catastrophe |
56 million years ago our planet experienced rapid, intense warming known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, resulting in a global temperature increase of about 7°C. Runaway … | Steven Earle | 256 | 2024 | View |
 NEW! The Story of Upfront CarbonHow a Life of Just Enough Offers a Way Out of the Climate Crisis |
When you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, everything changes Think that buying an electric car or switching to a heat pump is going to save the planet? Think again. We must … | Lloyd Alter | 194 | 2024 | View |
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From NEW! Chapter 1: The Lens of Upfront Carbon |
What is upfront carbon, and why is it so important? For decades we have been preoccupied with energy consumption, but since the Paris Accord of 2015 we have had to pivot to concern about carbon … | Lloyd Alter | 46 | 2024 | $4.60 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Canada Vs California |
This chapter introduces the concept of this book and why a book covering the political showdown of Bill C-11 is relevant and important. This chapter lays the ground work of the Bill’s … | Howard Law | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction and a Note on LanguageFrom: Murder in Renfrew County |
Author Dean Beeby takes the reader through his thoughts while working at the CBC Parliamentary Bureau as the case broke. Dean reflects on the incompetence of the justice system and how it failed … | Dean Beeby | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Preface and Introduction to Part 1From: Runaway Climate |
This section contains the preface and the introduction to part 1 of this book. | Steven Earle | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Preface and Introduction: What Didn’t Happen: The Case for Homelessness Prevention and A Framework for Homelessness Prevention |
Editor James Hughes discuss the rapid increase of homelessness since the covid-19 pandemic. through this he outlines the need for a book of this type, to stop focusing on how to treatment … | Erin Dej; James Hughes; Kaitlin Schwan; Stephen Gaetz | 30 | 2024 | $3.00 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 1: Before the Online Streaming Act: How Canada "Regulates” Its Broadcasting SystemFrom: Canada Vs California |
In this Chapter author Howard Law provides a primer on how Canada has regulated its broadcasting system for the last several decades as well as the three amendments to this act over this period … | Howard Law | 19 | 2024 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2: Strategies for Sufficiency |
How can we reduce upfront carbon emissions and use less stuff? A look at ideas like simplicity, where we eliminate wasteful complications, or materiality, what it is made of, or flexibility, can … | Lloyd Alter | 55 | 2024 | $5.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter One: Triple MurderFrom: Murder in Renfrew County |
This chapter leads us through the murders of Nathalie Warmerdam, Anastasia Kuzyk, and Carol Culleton on September 22nd 2020. Beeby Introduces the victims, their relationship to their killer, and … | Dean Beeby | 47 | 2024 | $4.70 Add |
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From NEW! Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness |
In this chapter, Katlin Schwan asks us to consider how financialization, specifically the financialization of housing is contributing to the homelessness epidemic. Increasing rental prices, the … | Kaitlin Schwan | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! The Bighorn BasinFrom: Runaway Climate |
The Bighorn Basin: (early Eocene in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming). The life and times of the first equid Sifrhippus. Overview of the late Cenozoic climate and the dramatic changes that took … | Steven Earle | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2: “No Netflix Tax!” (1999–2019)From: Canada Vs California |
Chapter two shows the beginning of Canada’s thoughts on regulating internet broadcasting. Conservatives were notably against any idea of a "Netflix tax" or tax on internet based … | Howard Law | 19 | 2024 | $1.90 Add |
