James Lorimer and Company

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Non-violence, but not Passive Acceptance

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines violence and Indigenous activism to outline an active non-violent approach that needs to be implemented to deal with government authorities. 6 $0.60 Add
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The Wrong Kind of Rights:

The Charter Threat to Medicare

From: Medicare

Examines the threat that the charter presents to medicare and the people’s place in influencing medicare decisions 7 $0.70 Add
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It’s All About People

From: Medicare

Offers six concepts to fixing the health care system while maintaining that it is all about the people 5 $0.50 Add
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Resisting the Carbon Bomb

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

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 … 7 $0.70 Add
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The government’s spin, part one

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

How did the Harper Government spin the FIPA? It would take another book to count all the ways. I discuss four examples in the next few chapters. The first example is the prime minister’s … 11 $1.10 Add
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Defending Mother Earth

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the qualifications of Indigenous people to weigh in on climate matters and promote clean energy policies and relates this to economic decisions in Canada. 5 $0.50 Add
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The Continental Deep Integration Threat

From: Medicare

Looks at the threat to public health caused by the idea of continental deep integration. Looks at the Security and Prosperity Partnershipt, SMART Regulations, trade investment and labour mobility … 6 $0.60 Add
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The government’s spin, part two

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

Despite the Conservatives’ efforts to limit debate, other politicians were able to use the process at the House of Commons trade committee, and elsewhere in Parliament, to put important … 9 $0.90 Add
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Talking Solutions

From: Medicare

Looks at the Health Council of Canada’s 2007 report that synthesizes four years of public opinion polling (2002 to 2006) on the Canadian health system as it relates to reforming rather than … 7 $0.70 Add
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The government’s spin, part three

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

My last example of the government’s misleading responses to concerns about the FIPA comes from the legal challenge brought by the Hupacasath First Nation. 11 $1.10 Add
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The Long-Term Approach

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel looks at how government decisions only take into account short term economic benefits rather than long term environmental concerns and how this differs from … 3 $0.30 Add
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A Political Agenda for Building Medicare’s Next Stage

From: Medicare

Examines how we must broaden the intellectual and institutional spaces for joint social activism — the kind of activism that will advance both medicare and Social Determinents of Health … 12 $1.20 Add
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Declaring Sovereignty on the Ground

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel looks at what Indigenous people need to do in order to declare sovereignty on the ground and the contradictory statements that some Indigenous tribes have given … 3 $0.30 Add
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Laura Dawson’s lawn darts

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

Analyzes an interview with Laura Dawson about her opinion on the FIPA. He concludes the interview worked as a sort of damage control on the part of the governement 14 $1.40 Add
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The strange case of Stephen Gordon

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

Analyzes an article written in Maclean’s Magazine by Stephen Gordan which presents a poorly informed spin on the FIPA 9 $0.90 Add