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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Silver Lining From: BlackBerry Town View	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, …	Chuck Howitt	16	2019	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Singapore: Push vs. Pull Information Sharing — Treating Public Access as a Given, Discussing the role of open data in stimulating innovation through partnerships with government, the private sector, and civil society From: Open Governments, Secret Canada View	In this chapter, Malone examines how Singapore treats public access to government data as a default, contrasting this proactive "push" strategy with Canada’s reactive, …	Matt Malone	17	2026	$1.70 Add
From Sisters in Struggle From: From Bombs to Books View	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 …	David Starr	17	2016	$1.70 Add
From Skeletons in the Closet From: Family Ties View	This chapter discusses Canada’s modern understanding of its relationship to Axis powers, and the need for transparent political accountability rather than a sanitized public memory.	Peter McFarlane	4	2024	$0.40 Add
From NEW! 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 View	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 …	Mariana Valverde	15	2020	$1.50 Add
From NEW! SNC-Lavalin Captured or Complicit? SNC-Lavalin and the Normalization of Corruption in Canada From: Corporate Rules View	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 …	Jennifer Quaid; Steven Bittle	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From Social Upheaval From: Tar Sands Showdown View	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 …	Tony Clarke	39	2008	$3.90 Add
From Socialism and Democratization From: The Great Class War 1914-1918 View	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. …	Jacques R. Pauwels	12	2016	$1.20 Add
From Socialism and Syndicalism: The Rising of the Working Class, 1870–1919 From: The Rise of the New West View	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	John F. Conway	26	2014	$2.60 Add
From Some Doctors Weigh In — 2013 From: The Right to Die View	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,” …	Gary Bauslaugh	17	2016	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Some Haitian Lessons in Resilience From: Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World View	In this chapter Dorcent argues that resilience and sovereignty are one continuous practice, grounding her argument in Haitian history and research on muscle adaptation and post-traumatic growth.	Rodginie Dorcent	12	2026	$1.20 Add
From SOS Medicare: A (Cautionary) Tale of Two Conferences From: Medicare View	Discusses the 2 SOS Medicare Conferences and the importance of Public Health	Douglas; Shirley	8	2007	$0.80 Add
From Sound Recording and Radio: Intersections and Overlaps From: Cultural Industries.ca View	The interrelationship between radio and sound recording is the overarching theme in Richard Sutherland’s article.	Richard Sutherland	20	2012	$2.00 Add
From NEW! Sovereignty and Trumpism From: Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World View	In this chapter, Axworthy traces how Canada’s postwar sovereignty, built on peacekeeping and the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, has been eroded by decades of integration with the …	Lloyd Axworthy	10	2026	$1.00 Add
From St. Laurent and Diefenbaker, 1948–1963 From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces View	Discusses the development of federal-provincial relations during the period of Louis St. Laurent and John Diefenbaker including the emergence of shared-cost programs and Quebec’s growing …	Ed Whitcomb	25	2017	$2.50 Add
From Stairs and Beaverbrook From: Merchant Princes View	1902-1910 . Looks at the partnership between John F. Stairs and William Maxwell Aitken (the future Lord Beaverbrook). The establishment of the Royal Securities Corporation, John F’s …	James D. Frost	49	2003	$4.90 Add