James Lorimer and Company

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She Was So Beautiful My Heart Moved

She Was So Beautiful My Heart Moved

From: From Bombs to Books

Describes the experience of an Afghan man forced into army service to graduate from school who marries a half-Russian, half-Uzbek woman and their escape the violence of the area to come to … 18 $1.80 Add
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Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment

From: To Wawa with Love

Discusses his father’s drinking problem, and the built up frustration of his mother which eventually led to an ultimatium which meant he got help 6 $0.60 Add
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Shopping Without Borders

Shopping Without Borders

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

Chapter 4 delves into electronic commerce. Traditional taxation principles that were devised more than half a century ago were based on a physical world, with tangible goods, and defined places … 11 $1.10 Add
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Dissident in Search of Consensus

Dissident in Search of Consensus

From: Beverley McLachlin

Addresses McLachlin’s role in transforming the way the Supreme Court approach to making decisions. Explains how, under McLachlin’s leadership, the Court became more consensual and … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Signed, Sealed and Delivered? The TPP and Canada's Public Postal Service

Signed, Sealed and Delivered? The TPP and Canada’s Public Postal Service

From: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada

Daniel Sheppard and Louis Century, lawyers at Goldblatt Partners, provide a compelling case study that warns how corporate interests in the U.S. might take advantage of these novel provisions to … ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Silicon Valley North

Silicon Valley North

From: BlackBerry Town

Howitt examines the growth of Kitchener-Waterloo’s growing reputation as a tech leader from the perspective of several staff and executives of other tech companies in the area. 26 $2.60 Add
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Silver Lining

Silver Lining

From: BlackBerry Town

Howitt outlines the years following BlackBerry’s collapse, noting how many of the talented and educated tech workers BlackBerry was forced to lay off stayed in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, … 16 $1.60 Add
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Sisters in Struggle

Sisters in Struggle

From: From Bombs to Books

Describes as context the recent history of the Sudan, and recounts one family’s experience living through the 1983-84 violence in the country, their journey to refugee camps in Ethiopia and … 17 $1.70 Add
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Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor Game
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Smart Cities as a Civic Leaders’ Survivor Game

The Lure of Innovation in a Competitive World

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

Chapter 1 explores what leads municipal governments to persue smart city projects, whether they are seen as a quick and easy fix to deeper underlying infrastructure and urban planning issues, and … 15 $1.50 Add
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SNC-Lavalin
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SNC-Lavalin

Captured or Complicit? SNC-Lavalin and the Normalization of Corruption in Canada

From: Corporate Rules

In this chapter, Steven Bittle and Jennifer Quaid examine the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the normalization of corruption in Canada. Bittle and Quaid use three key moments in the evolution of the … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Social Upheaval

Social Upheaval

From: Tar Sands Showdown

Chapter 6 discusses the many ways in which the development of the tar sands has become a caldron that is brewing with social conflicts and tensions: (a) social conflicts: ranging from the … 39 $3.90 Add
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Socialism and Democratization

Socialism and Democratization

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

The elite tries to exorcize the proletarian threat not only by using the “stick” of bloody repression but also the “carrot” of social legislation and political reforms. … 12 $1.20 Add
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Socialism and Syndicalism:

Socialism and Syndicalism:

The Rising of the Working Class, 1870–1919

From: The Rise of the New West

Details the rise of the working class in the west, separating the analysis of BC and Prairies, and showcasing the small victories that led to the rise 26 $2.60 Add
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Some Doctors Weigh In — 2013

Some Doctors Weigh In — 2013

From: The Right to Die

The medical community has long had mixed feelings about assisted death. Some doctors claim that helping a patient die is a violation of the Hippocratic injunction to “do no harm,” … 17 $1.70 Add
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SOS Medicare:

SOS Medicare:

A (Cautionary) Tale of Two Conferences

From: Medicare

Discusses the 2 SOS Medicare Conferences and the importance of Public Health ; 8 $0.80 Add
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Sound Recording and Radio:

Sound Recording and Radio:

Intersections and Overlaps

From: Cultural Industries.ca

The interrelationship between radio and sound recording is the overarching theme in Richard Sutherland’s article. 20 $2.00 Add