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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From “The largest energy project in the entire world” From: Sold Down the Yangtze View	Analyzes reports about why the Harper Government would support this plan tieing their support to the oil sands and finds the government seemed anxious for China to support Canada’s resource …	Gus Van Harten	12	2015	$1.20 Add
From “The Last Best West”: The West in Confederation, 1869–1913 From: The Rise of the New West View	Details the history of confederation giving a firm background, the winning of the west, the initial failure, and the success with the wheat boom	John F. Conway	24	2014	$2.40 Add
From NEW! The Last Eighteenth-Century “Indian War,” the Opportunistic Origins of Capitalist Accumulation, and the Beginnings of Banking The Other Meanings of 1812 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 View	This chapter discusses the effect of the War of 1812 on relations between the colonial rulers and Indigenous populations as well as economic opportunities presented and the creation of a colonial …	Bryan D. Palmer	9	2024	$0.90 Add
From The Last Song of Akol Chol From: From Bombs to Books View	Details the life of a young boy from the Sudan who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the war. When his family came to Canada in order to get him the services he needed they placed him in …	David Starr	11	2016	$1.10 Add
From The Legacy From: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary View Collection: Residential Schools in Canada	Details the legacy of the residential school system in the lives of the Indigenous people of Canada includes the calls to action for each repercussion of the residential school system.	Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada	56	2015	$0.00 Add
From The Legacy of Violence From: From Bombs to Books View	Discusses how teachers and others can support students who have lived through extreme violence and what programs have worked in two schools with high refugee populations.	David Starr	8	2016	$0.80 Add
From Reconciliation Framework Agreements From: The Reconciliation Manifesto View	Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines reconciliation framework agreements in British Columbia and what they mean for Indigenous land rights.	Arthur Manuel	6	2017	$0.60 Add
From The legal challenge to the FIPA, part one From: Sold Down the Yangtze View	The public opposition to the China FIPA included thousands of people who took steps to support an effort by the Hupacasath First Nation, an aboriginal community on Vancouver Island in British …	Gus Van Harten	11	2015	$1.10 Add
From The legal challenge to the FIPA, part two From: Sold Down the Yangtze View	Through focusing on the arguments of the government’s foreign investment expert, J. Christopher Thomas, and how the courts favoured his opinions Van Harten outlines how the legal challenge …	Gus Van Harten	10	2015	$1.00 Add
From The Liberation of Italy A Fateful Precedent From: The Myth of the Good War View	Looks at the liberation of Italy in 1943 and how this process set a precendent for other liberation efforts.	Jacques R. Pauwels	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From The Liberators From: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster View	Introduces the concept of neoliberalism and its prioritization of deregulation and privatization. Analyzes the process of privatization and deregulation in the Canadian rail industry. Introduces …	Bruce Campbell	10	2018	$1.00 Add
From The Limits of Academic Freedom From: Academic Freedom in Conflict View	Joan Scott discusses the tensions inherent in the theory and practice of the academy as a self-regulating community. She explores those tensions and argues that, while they are unresolvable, they …	Joan W. Scott	27	2014	$2.70 Add
From The long reach of oil’s deep state From: Oil’s Deep State View	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the extended reach of oil’s deep state in Alberta including oil’s relationship with the World Health Organization and universities …	Kevin Taft	19	2017	$1.90 Add
From The Long Summer of 1944 From: The Myth of the Good War View	Looks at Operation Overload and landing in Normady in the summer of 1944 as a race for Britain and America to beat the Soviets to Berlin. Also looks at liberation in that summer and trying to …	Jacques R. Pauwels	10	2015	$1.00 Add
From Resisting the Carbon Bomb From: The Reconciliation Manifesto View	Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the pipelines being built on Indigenous land particularly the Kinder Morgan project proposed in 2016 and how the government of Canada moves forward …	Arthur Manuel	7	2017	$0.70 Add
From NEW! The Mad Dog From: Targeting Libya View	This chapter looks at Qadhafi’s radical reform program of the 1980s, which clashed violently with the US-led world order. As Libya used oil, arms, and support for liberation movements to …	Owen Schalk	15	2025	$1.50 Add