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Good Sense & Statistics at War

Good Sense & Statistics at War

From: Counting Out The Scholars

Outlines seven extended arguments about Pis: [1] Can Pis help build public post-secondary education? [2] Could and should Pis help make post-secondary education more "nimble" and … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Government, industry and the medical profession

Government, industry and the medical profession

ménage à trois

From: Doctors in Denial

Describes how the alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry developed in the period from the 1960s to 2015. 27 $2.70 Add
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Grassroots Activism

Grassroots Activism

A Recent History

From: Quiet No More

chapter one surveys grassroots activism largely within the territorial boundaries of Mexico, Canada, and the United States (what Aboriginal activists call “Turtle Island”). Looks also … 28 $2.80 Add
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Grassroots Movements

Grassroots Movements

Cogs that Turn Larger Wheels

From: Quiet No More

Chapter two analyzes the role of grassroots movements in recent years and their common role as cogs that turn larger wheels (e.g., large progressive groups and institutions of mainstream … 44 $4.40 Add
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Green schemes, fossil dreams
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Green schemes, fossil dreams

The Trudeau government’s inconclusive climate legacy

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s response to the climate crisis, including the international and domestic agreements to reduce emissions, the national carbon pricing system, … 16 $1.60 Add
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Greening the Tax System

Greening the Tax System

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

Chapter 6 deals specifically with environmental taxation. If major fiscal reforms are to be undertaken to deal with the crisis, this could be a strategic moment to implement a green tax shift. … 28 $2.80 Add
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Growing Inequality, Basic Needs, and Health

Growing Inequality, Basic Needs, and Health

From: Medicare

Looks at the growing economic gap and how it factors into the health debate 6 $0.60 Add
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Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City Project
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Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City Project

Our Food Future

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 8 explores Guelph’s smart cities project, which seeks to use technology to bridge the urban rural divide and develop a sustainable network of food production and consumption 12 $1.20 Add
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Guidelines on relationships between industry and the medical profession

Guidelines on relationships between industry and the medical profession

a guide to salvation?

From: Doctors in Denial

Discusses the development of ethical guidelines regarding the pharmaceutical industry by medical organizations by five organizations: the Canadian Medical Association, the College of Physicians … 39 $3.90 Add
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Gus Simone, Organizer

Gus Simone, Organizer

From: Sweethearts

1960s. Unions and the switch to drywall, work in commercial construction 12 $1.20 Add
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Hamilton Harbour

Hamilton Harbour

Politics, Patronage and Cover-up

From: Their Town

Hamilton ON. 1970s, Hamilton Harbour, Politics = Business first mentality, cover ups. 19 $1.90 Add
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Harper and Harrison

Harper and Harrison

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

Discusses the deregulating agenda of the Harper majority government. How Government abandoned the precautionary principle in favour of a business friendly approach to regulation. Discussses the … 15 $1.50 Add
Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men

Harry Livingstone’s Forgotten Men

Canadians and the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War

HARRY LIVINGSTONE was a small town doctor from Listowel, Ontario when he felt the pull of patriotism that led him to volunteer in the First World War. In 1917, Livingstone found himself embarking … 504 View
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Haven for the Rich, Hell for the Rest of Us

Haven for the Rich, Hell for the Rest of Us

From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

Chapter 3 examines tax havens. New means of communication and greater capital mobility help taxpayers easily get around the principle of tax residence by establishing (or pretending to establish) … 24 $2.40 Add
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Hazards of War and Last Acts

Hazards of War and Last Acts

From: Churchill and Fisher

Historian Barry Gough examines the hazards Winston Churchill and Jack Fisher faced due to the First World War (particularly 1916-1918) focusing on the advancement of submarine warfare and the … 46 $4.60 Add