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From: Getting to Zero

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 Identifies how the 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray should cause Canada to confront climate change. Discusses how oil sand production has increased and why this needs to change for Canada to … 7 $0.70 Add
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From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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 The history of economic inequality in Canada and briefly touches on the other forms of inequality that exist in Canada which would persist even if economic inequality was eliminated. Briefly … 18 $1.80 Add
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From: Damming the Peace

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 In the Introduction, author Wendy Holm describes the Site C dam project in B.C. and summarizes the impacts and effects of the project which are analyzed and critiqued in other chapters of the … 5 $0.50 Add
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From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

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 Overview of the town of Lac-Mégantic, its relation to railroads, and the rail disaster of 2013, placed within the context of government deregulation of key industries like transportation and … 6 $0.60 Add
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From: The Big Stall

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 Compares and contrasts the energy policies of Pierre and Justin Trudeau to demonstrate the shift from a government able and willing to intervene in the economy to pursue the national interest to … 3 $0.30 Add
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From: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary

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 An overview of what Residential Schools were and provides the history of reconciliation in Canada. Defines reconciliation as a relationship. 26 $0.00 Add
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From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

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 Provides an overview of the history of the Canadian federation outlining the difficulty that exists in separating provincial and federal responsibility. 8 $0.80 Add
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Doctors in denial: welcome to the comfort zone

From: Doctors in Denial

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 Provides an overview of the medical industry in Canada paying particular attention to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. Outlines and examines critically the different opinions … 14 $1.40 Add
Beverley McLachlin

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 An introduction to the book. An brief overview of what the book covers. ; 6 $0.60 Add
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From: Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

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 Introduces the reason behind this book and outlines the tax breaks given to the super wealthy and how they can nevigate around the tax regime to their benefit 8 $0.80 Add
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The Urgent Need for Wartime Labour

From: Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men

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 A short history about why the British and French began to recruit Chinese labourers and formed the Chinese Labour Corps, and the role Canada and Harry Livingstone played in this history. (Chapter … 27 $2.70 Add
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From: The Canadian Labour Movement

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 Author Craig Heron introduces the reader to the broad outlines of economic and social development in Canada that helped to shape the Canadian labour movement since the mid-nineteenth century. It … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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From: Winnipeg 1919

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 Norman Penner provides a brief summary of the events of the strike and subsequent legal action and provides context for the documents that make up the text, as well as a disussion of the role … 16 $1.60 Add
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From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War

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 The introduction provides a brief summary of the history of Italian immigrants in Canada and internment during the Second world War and outlines the goals of the book. ; 3 $0.30 Add
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A Few Acres of Snow

From: The Fall of New France

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 Sets up the background information to really understand the fall of new france through looking at The New World, King William’s War 1689-1697, Queen Anne’s War 1701-1713, King … 8 $0.80 Add
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From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Komagata Maru

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 The introduction provides a brief summary of the material covered in the book, introduces some of the individuals whose stories are told in the book and outlines the goals of the book. 3 $0.30 Add