2024
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From  Part Five-The Next Steps |
In this chapter, Day builds a case for reforming Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system. | Brian Day | 81 | 2024 | $8.10 Add |
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From  Part Four |
In this chapter, Wells traces Justin Trudeau’s political career from 2004 to 2023, examining his leadership style, unfulfilled promises, and reliance on transferring money to Canadians. | Paul Wells | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Part FourFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence examines how Canadian credit card interest rates have stayed high from the early 1980s through 2024, even as the prime rate fell from 22.75 to 6.95 percent. | Andrew Spence | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From Part Four-Cambie Goes to Court: The Pre-trial Era 2009 to 2016 |
In this chapter, Day traces the multi-year legal battle over private surgical care in British Columbia, from the 2009 filing through the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2023 refusal to hear the appeal. | Brian Day | 162 | 2024 | $16.20 Add |
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From Part NineFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence explains how Canada’s banking sector has remained oligopolistic since the 1964 Porter Commission and 1967 Bank Act reforms. | Andrew Spence | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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From Part One |
In this chapter, Wells traces Justin Trudeau’s political ascent from a 2012 charity boxing match in Ottawa to his 2015 federal election victory over Stephen Harper. | Paul Wells | 23 | 2024 | $2.30 Add |
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From Part OneFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence examines how Canada’s six federally chartered banks overcharge consumers and underserve small and medium-sized businesses. | Andrew Spence | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Part One Indigenous Commons, Capital Cravings, and the Coming of Colonialism, 1500-1790 and The Dish with One SpoonFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This section discusses first contact between the Europeans and the Indigenous inhabitants and divergent understandings of property rights and land tenure and collectivism and individualism. | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From Part One-Promoting Truth |
In this chapter, Day presents a forceful critique of Canada’s public healthcare system, tracing its decline from the 1980s to a 2022 British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling. | Brian Day | 79 | 2024 | $7.90 Add |
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From Part SevenFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence traces Canadian banking consolidation, from the founding of the Canada Banking Company in 1792 to the present-day dominance of the "big six" institutions. | Andrew Spence | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From Part SixFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence examines Canada’s wealth management industry and the high fees embedded in bank-run mutual funds. | Andrew Spence | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From Part Three |
In this chapter, Wells traces the worsening polarization in Canadian politics from 2015 to 2021, examining how partisan disdain surpassed genuine policy disagreement during the Trudeau era. | Paul Wells | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 Add |
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From Part ThreeFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence examines Canada’s banking industry as an oligopoly, drawing on figures such as Ed Clark, who led TD Bank between 2002 and 2015, and Victor Dodig of CIBC, to explain … | Andrew Spence | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From Part Three-Politics, the Canadian Medical Association, and the Law |
In this chapter, Day examines the Chaoulli-Zeliotis Supreme Court decision of 2005, which challenged restrictions on private insurance, and the subsequent BC Medicare Protection Act dispute. | Brian Day | 38 | 2024 | $3.80 Add |
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From Part Two |
In this chapter, Wells examines the political trajectory of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government from its 2015 inception to 2021. | Paul Wells | 20 | 2024 | $2.00 Add |
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From Part TwoFrom: Fleeced |
In this chapter, Spence examines the structure and performance of the Canadian banking system, arguing that its concentrated market grants a few large institutions outsized power over rates and fees. | Andrew Spence | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
