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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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 “Lucky” Ones From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View	This chapter explores Toronto’s underground construction workers from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The chapter traces the deadly conditions faced by tunnellers building the Yonge and …	Gilberto Fernandes	16	2026	$1.60 Add
From NEW! “The Lucky Things That Happen to Me” From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View	This chapter traces the life of Gerry Gallagher, an Irish immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1951 to organize construction workers. It examines his wartime experiences, his founding of LIUNA …	Gilberto Fernandes	15	2026	$1.50 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
From The Mafia Is with Us From: Sweethearts View	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
From The Magic of Christmas From: To Wawa with Love View	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
From The magical FIPA: attracting Chinese investment without any environmental impact! From: Sold Down the Yangtze View	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
From “The Man Behind the Plow”: Agrarian Populism and the Farmer Governments From: The Rise of the New West View	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