2026
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From  NEW! Epilogue |
This chapter traces the evolution of Toronto’s Local 183 construction union from the 1960s through 2025, examining how figures like Gerry Gallagher, Charlie Irvine, and John Stefanini … | Gilberto Fernandes | 18 | 2026 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Estonia: E-Courts and Easy and Fast Access to Justice, Considering access to justice in the design and delivery of digital systems to make the justice system accessible for all in the twenty-first century |
In this chapter, Malone compares Estonia’s digital justice system with Canada’s ongoing struggles over accessing court records. | Matt Malone | 19 | 2026 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Finland: Lobbyists Out of the Shadows — Automatic Public Access to Registries, Keeping an eye on the murky world of lobbying with open data, digital registries, and default disclosure |
In this chapter, Malone traces Finland’s 2019 lobbying scandal into the 2023 Transparency Register, then contrasts that open-data achievement with Canada’s narrow, poorly enforced … | Matt Malone | 22 | 2026 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Foreword |
In this foreword, Grand Chief Pierre Picard of the Wendat Nation traces the Wendat connection to the Toronto region, from ancestral villages along Lake Ontario’s waterways to the … | Pierre Picard | 2 | 2026 | $0.20 Add |
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From  NEW! From the Oil Shock to the National Energy Policy: Petro Panic in the 1970s and 1980s |
This chapter examines postwar Canadian energy policy, including the controverial National Energy Policy of the Pierre Trudeau government and the Alberta resistance. Palmer outlines how … | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Gallagher’s Guerrillas |
This chapter offers a vivid portrait of John Gallagher’s construction safety campaign in Toronto, centred on Norm Pike, who led unannounced inspection blitzes that shut down over 350 unsafe … | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! “Go Canadian, Boys!” |
This chapter recounts the 1969 jurisdictional battle in Toronto between Local 183 carpenters and Local 562 lathers over nearly 2,500 formworkers in the residential concrete sector. | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! How the Past is Before Us: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Pipeline Protests, 2014–25 |
In this chapter, Palmer examines how capitalism and colonialism continue to shape economic policies in Canada across the provinces, paying particular attention to the continued failure to … | Bryan D. Palmer | 25 | 2026 | $2.50 Add |
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From NEW! “How to Finish the Job” |
This chapter examines the transformation of labour relations inOntario’s construction industry during the early 1970s, centring on Local 183’s business manager Stefanini and his … | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! “I Built an Empire” |
This chapter examines how John Stefanini reshaped Local 183, a construction labourers’ union, during the mid-1970s. | Gilberto Fernandes | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! “I Didn’t Want to Die on the Saddle” |
This chapter traces the career of John Stefanini, the Italian-Canadian leader who built LIUNA Local 183 into North America’s largest construction union during the 1980s and early 1990s. | Gilberto Fernandes | 18 | 2026 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Iceland: Protecting Whistleblowers and Muckrakers Speaking, Safeguarding whistleblowing, press freedom, and investigative journalism to maintain healthy information ecosystems |
In this chapter, Malone traces how Iceland’s 2008 banking collapse catalysed sweeping whistleblower and press-freedom reforms, including the 2010 Icelandic Modern Media Initiative. | Matt Malone | 23 | 2026 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! Idle No More: Indigenous Resistance, 2012–25 |
In this chapter, Palmer offers a brief account of the 2012 grass roots Indigenous activist initiative, the Idle No More movement. The movement focuses on protection of Indigenous lands and … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Indigenous Protest in the Indigenous Protest in the Shadow of Neoliberalism, 1995–2015 |
In this chapter, Palmer describes key events and effective protests by Indigenous communities from 1995-2015. | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Indigenous Surveillance, Scoops, and Schools: Coercive Continuities, 1960–75 |
In this chapter, Palmer explains the government policy and practice of cultural assimilation, including the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families in the Sixties Scoop. … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2026 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Indigenous Women, the Indian Act, and Ongoing Struggles, 1969–85 |
In this chapter, Palmer examines how colonial policies divided Indigenous communities and violated their treaty rights. He describes key early Red Power protests. He highlights legal challenges … | Bryan D. Palmer | 10 | 2026 | $1.00 Add |
