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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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The Reconciliation ManifestoRecovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy |
In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non- Indigenous Canadians believe about their … | Arthur Manuel | 312 | 2017 | View |
The Right to DieThe courageous Canadians who gave us the right to a dignified death |
"Who owns my life?" Sue Rodriguez was dying of a form of ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s disease) when she asked this question of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993. She was fighting for … | Gary Bauslaugh | 290 | 2016 | View |
The Rise of the New WestThe History of a Region in Confederation |
This one-volume history chronicles a 150-year history of dramatic changes in fortune and attitudes in western Canada. From the Riel Rebellions and the Winnipeg General Strike to the founding of … | John F. Conway | 400 | 2014 | View |
The Secret Power of JuriesWhat jurors in Canada aren't being told about their rights -- and what we can do about it |
Canadians know that the jurors at a trial decide the defendant’s guilt or innocence according to the law of the land. What they don’t know is how far that right actually goes, and … | Gary Bauslaugh | 216 | 2013 | View |
The Tangled GardenA Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age |
The emergence of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (the FAANGs) has created an unprecedented challenge to Canada’s news, television and film businesses. In this book Richard … | Richard Stursberg | 224 | 2019 | View |
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and CanadaA Citizen's Guide |
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, with its twelve participating countries on three continents, is the largest regional trade and investment agreement that Canada has ever negotiated. It is also one … | Scott Sinclair; Stuart Trew | 216 | 2016 | View |
The United Nations in the 21st CenturyGrappling with the world's most challenging issues: militarism, the environment, human rights, inequality |
After more than seven decades, the United Nations embodies humanity’:s hopes for peace, security, social justice, human rights, equality for women, and a voice for all. At the same time, … | Douglas Roche | 98 | 2015 | View |
Their TownThe Mafia, the Media and the Party Machine |
This book is a classic of its kind — a no-holds-barred portrait of Hamilton civic life in the 1970s. The focus is on power — and the powerful. On the surface, power was wielded by the … | Bill Freeman; Marsha Aileen Hewitt | 166 | 2016 | View |
To Wawa with Love |
When Tom Douglas’s father returned home after the Second World War, he was forced to move his family from Sault Ste. Marie north to Wawa, where he was the timekeeper at the Helen Mine. … | Tom Douglas | 160 | 2012 | View |
NEW! Toronto’s Ravines and Urban ForestsTheir natural heritage and local history |
No matter where you are in Toronto, you are close to a ravine. In these often-hidden places you can find an astonishing diversity of birds, flowers, and trees. Jason Ramsay-Brown has spent twenty … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 200 | 2020 | View |
Visionaries, Crusaders, and FirebrandsThe Idealistic Canadians Who Built the NDP |
As an idealist and a visionary, Jack Layton connected with millions of Canadians who saw that he was a different kind of political leader. So did Tommy Douglas, chosen as the greatest Canadian … | Lynn Gidluck | 248 | 2012 | View |
Winnipeg 1919The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike |
On May 15, 1919 workers from across Winnipeg, ranging from metal workers to telephone operators, united to spark the largest worker revolt in Canadian history. Even the Winnipeg police voted to … | Norman Penner | 340 | 2019 | View |
Within the Barbed Wire FenceA Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in Canada |
Takeo Nakano immigrated to Canada from Japan in 1920, later marrying and starting a family in his adopted homeland. Takeo’s passion was poetry, and he cultivated the exquisite form known as … | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 144 | 2012 | View |
From Acknowledgments and Floor PlansFrom: Casa Loma |
- | Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo | 3 | 2016 | $0.30 Add |
From Author’s Forward and Introduction |
- | Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From Black ConsciousnessFrom: Black Cop |
A brief overview of Calvin’s early life growing up in Yarmouth, N.S. Details his early experiences with racism and the 1960s black community in Nova Scotia. | Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe | 28 | 2019 | $2.80 Add |