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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Housing: Keeping the Faith From: How We Changed Toronto View	1970s. The reform Council may have been inventive and proactive in undertaking such an ambitious affordable housing program enabled by the federal and provincial legislation, but that program …	John Sewell	16	2015	$1.60 Add
From How Basic Income Affects Different People From: Basic Income For Canadians View	This chapter explores the impact of basic income on different populations including indigenous people, racialized people, and people with disabilities.	Evelyn L. Forget	19	2020	$1.90 Add
From How it All Began Jailing Jurors From: The Secret Power of Juries View	Chapter 3 looks at the origins of jury independence	Gary Bauslaugh	15	2013	$1.50 Add
From NEW! How the Past is Before Us: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Pipeline Protests, 2014–25 From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View	In this chapter, Palmer examines how capitalism and colonialism continue to shape economic policies in Canada across the provinces, paying particular attention to the continued failure to …	Bryan D. Palmer	25	2026	$2.50 Add
From NEW! “How to Finish the Job” From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View	This chapter examines the transformation of labour relations inOntario’s construction industry during the early 1970s, centring on Local 183’s business manager Stefanini and his …	Gilberto Fernandes	13	2026	$1.30 Add
From How to Protect a Public Health Care System From: Medicare View	Examines the two competeing ideologies in the debate about the roles of government and the private sector in the financing and delivery of health care. The two competing ideologies are the …	Alan Maynard	8	2007	$0.80 Add
From Human Moles in the "Lovely Land of War" From: The Great Class War 1914-1918 View	Except in its opening and closing stages, the Great War is a “stationary war,” to be associated forever with concepts such as trenches, no man’s land, and barbed wire — …	Jacques R. Pauwels	33	2016	$3.30 Add
From Climate Change A choice for humanity From: The United Nations in the 21st Century View	This chapter explores how the UN’s concern for environmental issues showcases how the organization has evolved to respond to the evolving needs of humanity	Douglas Roche	9	2015	$0.90 Add
NEW! Humans The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality	Historian Alvin Finkel builds on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists and historians to present the very long view of the history of the human species. His focus is not on the leaders …		416		View
From NEW! “I Built an Empire” From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View	This chapter examines how John Stefanini reshaped Local 183, a construction labourers’ union, during the mid-1970s.	Gilberto Fernandes	14	2026	$1.40 Add
From I did not know who I was From: Gang Life View	twenty-five-year-old Kim describes a life, both inside and outside her gang, in which “I did not know who I was.” Her childhood and early adolescence were wracked with rejection and …	Mark Totten	21	2014	$2.10 Add
From NEW! “I Didn’t Want to Die on the Saddle” From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View	This chapter traces the career of John Stefanini, the Italian-Canadian leader who built LIUNA Local 183 into North America’s largest construction union during the 1980s and early 1990s.	Gilberto Fernandes	18	2026	$1.80 Add
From I won’t back down From: Gang Life View	Jake, who is Caucasian and twenty-eight years old, takes us on a whirlwind tour that parallels the emotional and behavioural problems that plagued his childhood with his life in a gang. He was …	Mark Totten	19	2014	$1.90 Add
From I Would Go Back if I Could From: From Bombs to Books View	Describes the experience of a Iranian woman who converted to Christianity and was disowned by her Muslim family, she became an illegal refugee in Turkey with a constant fear of deportation before …	David Starr	12	2016	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Iceland: Protecting Whistleblowers and Muckrakers Speaking, Safeguarding whistleblowing, press freedom, and investigative journalism to maintain healthy information ecosystems From: Open Governments, Secret Canada View	In this chapter, Malone traces how Iceland’s 2008 banking collapse catalysed sweeping whistleblower and press-freedom reforms, including the 2010 Icelandic Modern Media Initiative.	Matt Malone	23	2026	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Idle No More: Indigenous Resistance, 2012–25 From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View	In this chapter, Palmer offers a brief account of the 2012 grass roots Indigenous activist initiative, the Idle No More movement. The movement focuses on protection of Indigenous lands and …	Bryan D. Palmer	8	2026	$0.80 Add