2024

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Canada Vs California

How 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. … 232 View
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Ending Homelessness in Canada

The 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 … 186 View
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Murder in Renfrew County

The 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 … 226 View
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Runaway Climate

What 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 … 256 View
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The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada

 There are more billionaires than ever in Canada – and they are capturing an ever-growing share of the country’s wealth. Meanwhile 90% of Canadians are steadily losing ground. … 288 View
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The Story is in Our Bones

How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis

 A dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to the brink of social, ecological, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and … 394 View
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The Story of Upfront Carbon

How 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 … 194 View
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The Trudeau Record

Promise and Performance 25 experts weigh in

 In this book, independent experts analyze the performance of Justin Trudeau’s years in power in six key policy areas: Indigenous rights, governance and housing; the environment and energy; … ; ; 336 View
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Author’s Note and Foreward

From: The Story is in Our Bones

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 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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Chapter 1: The Lens of Upfront Carbon

From: The Story of Upfront Carbon

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 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 … 46 $4.60 Add
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Introduction

From: Canada Vs California

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 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 … 8 $0.80 Add
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Introduction

Promise and performance

From: The Trudeau Record

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 The Introduction to The Trudeau Record provides an overview of the Justin Trudeau’s record in six key policy areas (Indigenous rights, governance and housing; the environment and energy; … ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Introduction

From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada

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 In the Introduction, the author explains the background for writing this book on the growth of inequality in Canada, and the effect of the Covid pandemic and the climate crisis in recent years on … 22 $2.20 Add
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Introduction and a Note on Language

From: Murder in Renfrew County

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 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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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Preface and Introduction to Part 1

From: Runaway Climate

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 This section contains the preface and the introduction to part 1 of this book. 3 $0.30 Add
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Preface and Introduction: What Didn’t Happen: The Case for Homelessness Prevention and A Framework for Homelessness Prevention

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

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 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 … ; ; ; 30 $3.00 Add