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Challenges and Changes

Challenges and Changes

1945-1990

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax

This chapter describes the changing attitudes and the ifght for recognition and rights for Chinese Canadians in the latter half of the twentieth century. It illustrates this with drawings, … 10 $1.00 Add
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Challenging a Hostile Community

Challenging a Hostile Community

1900-1939

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax

This chapter discusses the impact of legislated racism including the Head Tax on the Chinese Canadian community as well as the impact of events like the First World War and the Great Depression. … 16 $1.60 Add
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Challenging Institutional Conflict of Interest

Challenging Institutional Conflict of Interest

From: Protecting Research Confidentiality

Looks at the challenge to the institutional conflict of interest and the idea of limited confidentiality that was undertaken because of the Ogden case ; 13 $1.30 Add
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We Stole it Fair and Square

We Stole it Fair and Square

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel analyzes how Europeans settlers and their governments asserted ownership of the land in Canada — characterizing it as straighforward theft. He uses the … 6 $0.60 Add
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Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability Debate

Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability Debate

From: Medicare

Looks at the Health Care affordability debate by exploring what is left out of the statistics used by the Government such as population growth, inflation and income growth. Looks at what it would … 8 $0.80 Add
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Changing Toronto’s Mind about Diversity

Changing Toronto’s Mind about Diversity

From: How We Changed Toronto

1978-1980. As mayor, I was able to use my larger podium to speak up, bring attention to and encourage public discussion of important issues. This chapter recounts a number of such instances. … 23 $2.30 Add
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Channelling hope

Channelling hope

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

In this final chapter, I offer a few hopeful and specific ideas about what governments could be pushed to do to protect Canadians in the era of the FIPA and investor-state arbitration. 8 $0.80 Add
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Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care Policy

Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care Policy

From: Medicare

I discuss the majority judges’ poor appreciation of the interface between public and private health insurance across different health care systems and how, subsequently, this lack of … 45 $4.50 Add
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Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The Craftworkers' Challenge

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

This chapter traces the rise of working-class organizing in mid nineteenth-century Canada in the context of Canada’s First Industrial Revolution, moving from informal protests to narrowly … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Chapter 1
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Deep Roots

From: Mining Country

This chapter discusses the earliest examples of mining in Canada. These include examples of metalwork and extraction practiced by pre-columbian indigenous communities as well as the first … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness
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Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Altona Forest

Altona Forest

From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests

Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Altona Forest, an ecologically-rich natural area in the Petticoat Creek watershed on the border of Pickering and Toronto. He uses Altona to reflect upon … 5 $0.50 Add
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Chapter 1: Before the Online Streaming Act: How Canada "Regulates” Its Broadcasting System
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Chapter 1: Before the Online Streaming Act: How Canada "Regulates” Its Broadcasting System

From: 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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914
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Chapter 1: Capitalist Crisis and Expansion, 1890-1914

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter recounts how the Depression of the 1890s was followed in the first decades of the twentieth century by enormous growth in mining, railroads and industry. 6 $0.60 Add
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Chapter 1: Tools of Canadian foreign policy
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Chapter 1: Tools of Canadian foreign policy

From: Canada In Afghanistan

In this chapter Schalk summarizes key moments in Canada’s political history that influenced Canada’s foreign policy leading up to, and including the years during Canada’s … 14 $1.40 Add
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Terraview Park and Willowfield Gardens Park

Terraview Park and Willowfield Gardens Park

From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests

Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Terraview and Willowfield Gardens Parks, located near the artificial headwaters of Taylor-Massey Creek, and focal point for Toronto’s fledgling … 6 $0.60 Add