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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Casa Loma Canada'’s Fairy-Tale Castle and Its Owner, Sir Henry Pellatt	In this fifth edition, with new photography showing Casa Loma in its newly restored state, Bill Freeman takes readers on a tour of every significant room in this dramatic hillside castle, …	Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo	96	2016	View
Churchill and Fisher The titans at the Admiralty who fought the First World War	A vivid study of the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of the Admiralty during the First World War. …	Barry Gough	656	2017	View
NEW! Corporate Rules The Real World of Business Regulation in Canada	This book offers documentation for the first time of how corporations have captured Canadian government agencies set up to protect the public. Twenty-one authors, experts in their fields, …	Bruce Campbell	328	2022	View
Counting Out The Scholars The Case Against Performance Indicators in Higher Education	Canada’s universities have lost their autonomy. Under the guise of accountability, reformers from government and large corporations have undermined the original purposes of these …	Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau	274	2002	View
Crisis in Canada’s Policing Why Change is So Hard, and How We Can Get Real Reform in our Police Forces	In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at …	Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell	224	2021	View
Cultural Industries.ca Making Sense of Canadian Media in the Digital Age	Canada’s creative industries encompass book, periodical, and newspaper publishing; radio and television broadcasting; the music industry; video game production; filmmaking and video …	Ira Wagman; Peter Urquhart	248	2012	View
Damming the Peace The hidden costs of the Site C Dam	Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s …	Wendy Holm	272	2018	View
Doctors in Denial Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort	Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of …	Joel Lexchin MD	344	2017	View
Early Intervention How Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save money	Governments and social agencies tackle the toughest social problems their citizens face — poverty, homelessness, mental and physical illness, violence, abuse, and more. Yet these problems …	James Hughes	232	2015	View
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary Honouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future	This is the Final Report of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these …	Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada	544	2015	View
From Bombs to Books The remarkable stories of refugee children and their families at two exceptional Canadian schools	This book chronicles how schools in Canada can #&8212; and do — play a positive role in the day-to-day lives of refugee families. Written by a principal who has worked at of two of the …	David Starr	232	2016	View
NEW! From Layton to Singh The 20-year conflict behind the NDP’s deal with the Trudeau Liberals	An incisive analysis of the federal NDP since 2000, examining the ongoing, unresolved tension between the party’s idealistic grassroots base and centrist bureaucracy at its core. On the …	Matt Fodor	208	2022	View
Gang Life 10 of the toughest tell their stories	For the first time, here’s a no-holds-barred inside account of life for criminal gang members in cities and towns across Canada. Mark Totten has slowly gained the confidence of gang members …	Mark Totten	216	2014	View
Gay Marriage The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution	A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada. Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage. As a political correspondent for The …	Louisa Blair; Sylvain Larocque	312	2006	View
Getting to Zero Canada Confronts Global Warming	In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He …	Tony Clarke	248	2018	View
Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68 The British Navy's show of force at the time of Confederation	This book describes British gunboat diplomacy practiced on the Great lakes in the aftermath of the US Civil War when Canada was negotiating Confederation and under Fenian attack. Cheryl MacDonald …	Cheryl MacDonald	192	2017	View