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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 |
![]() The Myth of the Good WarAmerica in the Second World War |
Was the role of the United States in the Second World War an essentially idealistic one, a crusading struggle to conquer the dark forces of German fascism and Japanese militarism? Was it an … | 328 | View | ||
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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 |
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From ![]() The National Scene |
Looks at the creation of the TCPS creating a bureaucratication of the ethics regulation process nationally | John Lowman; Ted Palys | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The nationalization threatFrom: Targeting Libya |
In this chapter, SNC-Lavalin’s corrupt ties to the Qadhafi family deepened just as Libya’s relations with Western oil companies and governments took a turn for the worse. In Libya … | Owen Schalk | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Nazi DictatorshipCui Bono? From: Big Business and Hitler |
Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines how Hitler’s government impacted on the profitability of big business and the wealth of Germany’s elite from 1933-1936. | Jacques R. Pauwels | 21 | 2017 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() The NDP in a world made for oilFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the rise of Rachel Notley’s NDP party in Alberta with focus on the change in policy towards the oil industry that occurred during the … | Kevin Taft | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() The New BuildersFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. looks at the housing boom that occurred after the war due to the population swell. The decision to start building high rises | Catherine Wismer | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() The New City Hall Saga 1955-1972From: Their Town |
Hamilton, ON. 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. City Hall. Development of the community. Business over other People. | Marsha Aileen Hewitt | 8 | 2016 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() The New GospelFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes neo-liberal environmental policies which avoided any negative impact on corporations during the 2000s. The British Columbia carbon tax is used as a case study to show how it is business … | Donald Gutstein | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The New Left Goes North: The Berger Commission and its Aftermath, 1973–2000 |
In this chapter, Palmer discusses the federal governments colonial policies regarding northern pipelines in Canada, the impact of the late 1970s Berger pipeline inquiry, and how Indigenous groups … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2026 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The New Men of Power and Confederation’s Capitalist TriumphFrom: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter addresses the weakening of the aristocratic and radical groups in Canada by the end of the 1840s and the triumph of the capitalist class and its ideology throughout the following decades. | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The New PatriotismFrom: Divided We Fall |
From Divided We Fall: How we can resist polarizing pressures and strengthen our identity as citizens | Max Cameron | 26 | 2026 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() The New Power BalanceFrom: Gay Marriage |
Examines the debates among MPs as to Same-sex marriage giving voice to those in favour and those opposed and how the scales were tipped in the favour of change | Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque | 15 | 2006 | $1.50 Add |

















