James Lorimer and Company

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Private Foundations (aka Charity for the Rich)

Private Foundations (aka Charity for the Rich)

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

In Chapter 5, I look at private foundations. Contrary to popular belief, private foundations are not a good deal for public finances in the short or the medium term. A foundation has to spend … 20 $2.00 Add
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Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s Waterfront
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Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s Waterfront

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

Chapter 4 explores how smart cities projects allow private companies to shape municipal policies to suit their own interests as opposed to the interests of the population. 15 $1.50 Add
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Proactive Poverty Reduction

Proactive Poverty Reduction

From: Early Intervention

It was poverty that brought the state dramatically into the health and social service realm, and over time, its role came to greatly exceed that of charities and the church. Federal and … 30 $3.00 Add
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Professors Beware:

Professors Beware:

The Evolving Threat of “Institutional” Academic Freedom

From: Academic Freedom in Conflict

Constitutional scholar David Rabban examines the increasing prominence of the concept of “institutional academic freedom” in American constitutional law and its implications. He … 30 $3.00 Add
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Prologue:

Prologue:

Woodfibre days

From: Within the Barbed Wire Fence

Talks about life before Pearl Harbour in Woodfibre BC ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Prologue

Prologue

Slavery in the Americas

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Africville

This chapter looks at the history of slavery in North America. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and firsthand accounts. 2 $0.20 Add
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Prologue

Prologue

Welcome Guests

From: Gunboats on the Great Lakes 1866-68

Describes how the citizens of Dunnville, Canada welcomed the crew of Her Majesty’s Britomart in 1866 when it was stationed there. 7 $0.70 Add
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Promoter and Politician

Promoter and Politician

From: Merchant Princes

1887-1897 . John F Stairs story continues into his his work as a promoter of the company, his foray back to politics, and some financial innovation 41 $4.10 Add
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Promoting a Common Global Ethic

Promoting a Common Global Ethic

From: Peacemakers

Examines the relationship between religion and secular sources to promote a common global peace. They must work together and they are not ideologies of oposition. 19 $1.90 Add
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Protect and extract
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Protect and extract

The Trudeau government’s conflicted legacy on nature and conservation

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter addresses the Trudeau government’s legacy on conservation, environmental protection and safeguarding of endangered species and habitats. 13 $1.30 Add
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Protecting Canadian investors, with a catch

Protecting Canadian investors, with a catch

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

The FIPA does provide stronger protection for Canadian investors in China but here Van Harten outlines why they are not strong protections 6 $0.60 Add
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Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial Interests

Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial Interests

From: Medicare

Analyzes the Canadian Health Care System and to what extent it falls under the domain of trade treaties despite the assurance that it is beyond trade treaties reach 10 $1.00 Add
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Protecting Research Participants, or Protecting the University from Research Participants?

Protecting Research Participants, or Protecting the University from Research Participants?

From: Protecting Research Confidentiality

Looks at institutional conflict of interest when it comes to academic research involving human participants, ethics under the law, and the limited confidentiality afforded to researchers ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Protecting the Integrity of Academic Work in Corporate Collaborations

Protecting the Integrity of Academic Work in Corporate Collaborations

From: Academic Freedom in Conflict

I point out examples of the corporate undermining of scientific inquiry, review studies on the extent to which universities have compromised their academic integrity in corporate collaborations, … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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(Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City Planning
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(Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City Planning

Sidewalk Labs’ Fraught Toronto Foray

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

Chapter 2 explores the factors that must be present for a smart cities project to be responsible and effective and then asses whether the Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto met any of these criteria. 16 $1.60 Add
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Pulling the levers of power

Pulling the levers of power

From Lougheed to Klein

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the transition from Peter Lougheed’s government and Ralph Klein’s arrival as premier with focus paid to the political and economic … 7 $0.70 Add