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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Setting the Stage From: The Truth About the '37 Oshawa GM Strike View	In this chapter, Leah traces the transformation of Canadian auto industry labour organizing from 1934 to the 1937 General Motors strike in Oshawa, Ontario.	Tony Leah	27	2024	$2.70 Add
From Settlers From: Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East View	Chapter Eleven focuses on the ideology of the Israeli Settlers. Settler colonialism is a system through which natives are displaced by immigrants. Under this system, the natives are defined as …	Stephen Gowans	13	2019	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Shades of the Gulf of Tonkin: Chemical Weapons False Flag From: Syria View	In this chapter, Kuzmarov and Kovalik examine allegations of chemical weapons false flag operations in Syria from 2013 to 2018, arguing that rebel forces orchestrated attacks to justify Western …	Dan Kovalik; Jeremy Kuzmarov	17	2025	$1.70 Add
From Sharing Parental Leave– A Radical Step? From: Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism View	Quebec is a trailblazer in North America when it comes to paternity leave, borrowing from a tried-and-true template popular in Scandinavian nations; however, fathers in Quebec are more hesitant …	Marilyse Hamelin	30	2018	$3.00 Add
From Sirte Keystone of Independence From: Slouching Towards Sirte View	In Chapter One Sirte: Keystone of Independence, Forte contrasts the city of Sirte– found to be in near total ruin by the end of the 2011 Libyan Civil War– to the Sirte which was once …	Maximilian C. Forte	39	2012	$3.90 Add
From Sirte Touchstone of Imperialism From: Slouching Towards Sirte View	In Chapter Two Sirte: Touchstone of Imperialism, Forte examines how Sirte represented a post-colonial Libya, as the seat of the Al-Fateh Revolution and later the focus of international attention …	Maximilian C. Forte	68	2012	$6.80 Add
Slouching Towards Sirte NATO's War on Libya and Africa	NATO’s war in Libya was proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing in the name of “saving lives.” Attempts at diplomacy were stifled. Peace talks were subverted. …	Maximilian C. Forte	344	2012	View
From NEW! Snow of a Different Kind From: Eyes Have Seen View	In this chapter, Anderson examines the 1969 occupation of Sir George Williams University in Montreal, sparked by Caribbean students’ complaint about a professor’s biased grading.	Fred Anderson	5	2025	$0.50 Add
From Social Inequalities in Health A Real and Persistent Problem From: Scandinavian Common Sense View	The existence of social inequalities in health is now recognized as a very real and world-wide problem; this chapter examines systematic determinants of health, which are socially produced and …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	13	2015	$1.30 Add
Songs Upon the Rivers The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific	“A major undertaking … a valuable contribution,” Canada’s History Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade …	Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette	448	2016	View
From South Pacific, Miss Saigon, Soft Power and Me From: Bigotry on Broadway View	This author recounts her experiences and perceptions of Anti-Asian bigotry in theatre/Broadway.	Aimee Phan	10	2021	$1.00 Add
From Southern Canada Did Not Get Developed Without National Support From: Let's Move On View	Okalik discusses his experiences with colleagues from other territories and provinces as well as with Greenland. He speaks more about his policy decisions and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.	Paul Okalik	12	2018	$1.20 Add
From St Albans Raid From: Montreal, City of Secrets View	This chapter looks at the St. Albans Raid, which resulted in the most northerly engagement of the Civil War.	Barry Sheehy; Cindy Wallace	11	2017	$1.10 Add
From NEW! State of Apprehended Insurrection From: Eyes Have Seen View	In this chapter, Anderson examines his experience of Montreal’s October Crisis of 1970, when Prime Minister Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act following FLQ kidnappings, and the …	Fred Anderson	12	2025	$1.20 Add
From Still Frozen in Time! From: Let's Move On View	Okalik describes his vision/ideals for progress in Nunavut.	Paul Okalik	9	2018	$0.90 Add
Stolen Motherhood Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Children	Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the “process” is vitiated from the get go, i.e., …	Maria De Koninck	194	2020	View