James Lorimer and Company

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Pushing the bar higher

Pushing the bar higher

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the relationship between the oil industry and Alberta’s conservative leadership including the strain on the relationship by recent … 12 $1.20 Add
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Pushing the Boundaries

Pushing the Boundaries

From: Immodest and Sensational

Looks at an analysis of women’s sports columnists in the 1930s and the women writers who defeneded women’s sports and female athletes 10 $1.00 Add
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Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Quebec in Transition

From: Quebec in Question

An account of climate of opinion in Quebec in the late 1970s, and changing social and political attitudes as Quebec emerges out of a colonial mentality. 8 $0.80 Add
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Quebec Nationalism and Globalism

Quebec Nationalism and Globalism

From: Our Lives: Canada after 1945

Since 1980. Traces the ups and downs of Quebec Nationalism from the defeat of the 1980 referendum to the near victory of the 1995 referendum and the aftermath of this second referendum 35 $3.50 Add
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Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Quebec or French Canada?

From: Quebec in Question

A brief statement of the case that the only guarantee of the survival of French culture and language in America is an independent Quebec — not a bilingual Canada 11 $1.10 Add
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Racism, Human Rights and Immigration

Racism, Human Rights and Immigration

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

Insight into the Canadian Left response to these topics from 1963-2013 12 $1.20 Add
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Radicals and Resource Developers

Radicals and Resource Developers

A REGION ON THE BRINK, 1919–1945

From: North of Superior

New Ontario (as the region was called during this period) was treated as a colony by the imperial government seated in Toronto; however, this vast region, nearly three-quarters of the entire … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Railway Makeover

Railway Makeover

From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

Discusses the privatization of CN Rail, and the impact of NAFTA on rail regulations. Identifies why privatized rail firms cut staffing levels, how the federal government allowed private rail … 13 $1.30 Add
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Rape of the Commons

Rape of the Commons

The Impact of Site C on Farmland and Food Security

From: Damming the Peace

Wendy Holm, the author of an agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, on what makes these foodlands so unique, and why they are of … 24 $2.40 Add
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Reactionary and Bellicose Policies

Reactionary and Bellicose Policies

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

Early 1900s. The tension becomes unbearable, and the elite becomes more and more convinced that only war is the definitive solution of the social problem — and of many other problems. There … 24 $2.40 Add
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Rebelling Youth

Rebelling Youth

Universities and Students

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

Looks at the coverage of Student Activism that has been made by Canadian Dimensions from 1963-2013 14 $1.40 Add
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Rebellion and the End of Empire’s First Nations Alliances
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Rebellion and the End of Empire’s First Nations Alliances

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter discusses changes in Indigenous alliances with the British during the period of rebellion in Upper and Lower Canada. 8 $0.80 Add
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UNDRIP and the Trudeau Betrayal

UNDRIP and the Trudeau Betrayal

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel provides a throrough examination of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian government’s inability to implement … 8 $0.80 Add
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Recruitment, Training, Management

Recruitment, Training, Management

From: Crisis in Canada's Policing

This chapter explores the hiring practices of Canadian police departments, and how these practices have a deleterious effect on police efficacy. ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Reforming the comfort zone so that doctors are no longer in denial

Reforming the comfort zone so that doctors are no longer in denial

From: Doctors in Denial

Outlines the needed reforms to the interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession, outlining industry’s role, government’s role, and the medical … 45 $4.50 Add