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From ![]() The Mafia Is with UsFrom: Sweethearts |
1970s. Setting up of a commision by the governemtn to examine the violence in the construction industry but not the industry itself | Catherine Wismer | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Magic of ChristmasFrom: To Wawa with Love |
Shares his favourite Christmas Memory involving his Mother and a Wawa Garbage Dump and how the community came together | Tom Douglas | 5 | 2012 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() The magical FIPA: attracting Chinese investment without any environmental impact!From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
It is especially telling that the government, in its environmental assessment of the China FIPA, discounted entirely the possibility of environmental impacts of new Chinese investment in Canada. … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() “The Man Behind the Plow”:Agrarian Populism and the Farmer Governments From: The Rise of the New West |
As the crisis of the 1880s unfolded in the West, the federal government, the CPR, and the private grain trade were taking the necessary steps to ensure the orderly and privately controlled export … | John F. Conway | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Mandate |
The mandate outlines what a negotiator has the power to do and what they are supposed to accomplish. Dingwall outlines the key processes of creating a mandate in this chapter by exploring oral vs … | David C. Dingwall | 32 | 2016 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Mechanic and the ArchitectFrom: The Big Stall |
Describes how neo-liberals came to embrace carbon taxes as well as the neo-liberal approach to carbon taxation. Presents progresive economists’ critique of the BC carbon tax which aruges … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Minister’s DownfallFrom: Canada is Not Back |
A rare insider’s perspective on the operation of the Trudeau cabinet and PMO. Describes Justin Trudeau’s relationship with Stephane Dion while Dion served as Minister of Foreign … | Jocelyn Coulon | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() The Mob and Its MoneyFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. Looks at the mob’s expansion into legitimate business focusing on housing development. Corruption is explored | Catherine Wismer | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Modern North, 1945–1985From: North of Superior |
Most historians agree that the end of the Second World War ushered in a new era in Canada. The economic and social upheaval that had dominated the 1930s became a thing of the past, and the 1950s … | Chris Southcott; Michel S. Beaulieu | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Montreal Bed-In |
This chapter explores the events surrounding John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s bed-in in Montreal. The chapter discusses the people they met during the event, and the impact it had on Canadian … | Greg Marquis | 59 | 2020 | $5.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Most Glittering PostFrom: Churchill and Fisher |
Historian Barry Gough examines Winston Churchill’s early career (1909-1912) as well as his personal life during this period. He focuses on his work at the Home Office, his relationship with … | Barry Gough | 26 | 2017 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Moving Picture of Incomes |
Inequality of annual incomes is like a snapshot of inequality, which only captures part of the moving picture of our fluctuating incomes. Lifetime income depends on career progression and whether … | Lars Osberg | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The moving picture of incomes |
In this chapter, the author analyzes the meaning of statistics about disparities in income and what they actually say about economic inequality and well-being in Canada. He points out that the … | Lars Osberg | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Métis Nation and Provisional Government in the North-West, 1869-71From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter examines the Metis nation in communities such as the Red River and Saskatchewan River in the late nineteenth-century Canadian colony, the Canada Party, Louis Riel, and the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The multipolar worldFrom: Targeting Libya |
This chapter examines Libya’s collapse into civil war and jihadist takeover while the US shifted its focus to containing a rising China and Russia, whose growing independence signaled a new … | Owen Schalk | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Myths Used to Create and Justify InequalityFrom: Share the Wealth! |
Readings in part 1 of this title explore the political and economic decisions and trends that have led to economic inequality in Canada. This chapter lists and debunks several myths that are used … | Angella MacEwen; Jonathan Gauvin | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |


















