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From ![]() Chomiaks in EdmontonFrom: Family Ties |
This chapter discusses how Ukrainian SS soldiers and Nazi collaborators immigrated to Canada following World War II. | Peter McFarlane | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Chronology of the Main Events of the Winnipeg General StrikeFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
A day-by-day summary of the events of the strike, from May 1-June 26, 1919 | Norman Penner | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Civil Rights in Canada during the pre-charter era |
Chapter 1 considers the nature of human rights and civil liberties. It also recounts some human rights issues in Canada prior to the Charter era, including some leading Canadian Bill of Rights … | Ian Greene | 44 | 2014 | $4.40 Add |
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From ![]() WomenThe power of a number |
Security Council Resolution 1325 as a perfect example of the mission of the UN: challenging discrimination, social justice, recognizing obstacles, and renewing determination to overcome failures … | Douglas Roche | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Class War Waged from Above, 1975–2000 |
In this chapter, Palmer examines the decline of Canadian labour movement from the 1970s to the 1990s. Provincial government officials fought civil servants over wages and weakened unions’ … | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Class War Waged from Below, 1960–75 |
In this chapter, Palmer describes how younger workers in the 1960s-70s challenged union hierarchies through direct job action and spontaneous strikes. He details how Canadian postal employees … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Class Warfare on the American Home FrontFrom: The Myth of the Good War |
Analyzes who profited on the homefront during the war; unemployment was low but big businesses profited most from the war-time boom. | Jacques R. Pauwels | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Class Wars from 1945 to the Present |
Like the Great War, the Second War produces a most unsatisfactory outcome for the elite of the “Western” World, namely a triumph of the Soviet homeland of revolution and the resulting … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 25 | 2016 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() From Charity to Justice |
This chapter analyzes the charity efforts undertaken by the UN to reduce global poverty and highlights the new goals instituted to be achieved by 2030. | Douglas Roche | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Climate Change, Pandemics, Warfare, and the Search for a Better WorldThe 2020s Viewed in the Context of Global Human History From: Humans |
This chapter examines the growth of the environmental movement in response to the mounting climate crisis perpetuated by capitalist priorities. It explores the response to pandemics in the late … | Alvin Finkel | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Closing Tax LoopholesFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter lists tax loopholes in Canada and how they can be closed including special treatment for … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Closing the Schools |
This chapter describes the events and shift in political climate that eventually led to the closure of residential schools in the latter half of the twentieth century. It illustrates this with … | Melanie Florence | 4 | 2016 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Cold Warriors: Ukrainian Nationalists in CanadaFrom: Family Ties |
This chapter discusses the evolving history of Ukrainian Nationalist networks in Canada and their relationship with Nazism. | Peter McFarlane | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Colonial Transformations |
From Toronto: The First 13,000 Years: An Illustrated History | Carl Benn | 27 | 2026 | $2.70 Add |
![]() NEW! Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890A New History for the Twenty-First Century |
Colonialism and Capitalism: A New History of Canada offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are … | 444 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! Colonialism and Coercive Assimilation/Cultural GenocideResidential Schools as the Pedagogy of Nineteenth-Century Oppression From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter discusses the evolution of the institutional framework of the Canadian state, particularly education, together with the press and the church in shaping bourgeois cultural norms. In … | Bryan D. Palmer | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |















