This account of the Sigfusson Transportation Company details how it was unfairly treated by the Government, in attempting to create a network of winter roads in northern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Political science
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Author:Sigfusson, SveinSummary: - Author:Boschman, RobertSummary:
A global exploration of water, bringing together academics and experts from five continents to illuminate the many issues facing the world's most important resource. Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly...
- Author:Birx, Deborah L.Summary:
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Deborah Birx provides an inside account of the Trump Administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Author:Boyko, JohnSummary:
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017 As Sir John A. Macdonald intended, the federal government must be recognized as the nation’s voice. Power. It is the capacity to inspire while encouraging and enabling change, and it matters. When...
- Author:Nikiforuk, AndrewSummary:
The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing — “fracking” — as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies. Yet the controversial...
- Author:Walmsley, Christopher, Kading, TerrySummary:
Small Canadian cities confront serious social issues as a result of the neoliberal economic restructuring practiced by both federal and provincial governments since the 1980s. Drastic spending reductions and ongoing restraint in social...
- Author:St. George, JudithSummary:
Have you ever thought about being President of the United States? There are good things and bad things about the job. One good thing is you get to live in a giant house with a movie theater, swimming pool, and even a bowling alley! But...
- Author:Oluo, IjeomaSummary:
Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing issues such as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, microaggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word....
- Author:Wiseman, NelsonSummary:
In this volume, Nelson Wiseman skilfully describes the history of the New Democratic Party in Manitoba, tracing the roots of the social democratic movement to the years of mass immigration and social unrest that preceded the Winnipeg...
- Author:Munck, RonaldoSummary:
Social movements are a key feature of the political and social landscape of Latin America. Ronaldo Munck explores their full range, emanating from different sections of Latin American society and motivated by many different concerns,...
- Author:Powell, Benjamin, Lawson, RobertSummary:
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to...
- Author:Frank, David, Ouellette, RéjeanSummary:
La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation...
- Author:Silver, JimSummary:
This book examines the real life circumstances of low-income people who are forced to live in poor housing. It examines the history and current status of low-income housing in one typical Canadian city, Winnipeg. Poverty and racism and...
- Author:Spencer, EmilySummary:
The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability. This contemporary operating environment (COE) is characterized by complexity, ambiguity, volatility, and constant danger. It...
- Author:Peckford, BrianSummary:
“Some day the sun will shine and have not will be no more.” These are the immortal words of Brian Peckford, who served as the third premier of Newfoundland, and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1979 until his retirement...
- Author:Keenan, EdwardSummary:
Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of...
- Author:Paehlke, RobertSummary:
Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada's climate change debate. Focusing on the past responses of both Liberal and Conservative governments to the looming crisis - ranging from negligence to...
- Author:Aguirre, CarmenSummary:
Something Fierce, winner of Canada Reads 2012, is a gripping story of love, war and resistance. A rare first-hand account of revolutionary life, it takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia, post-Malvinas...
- Author:Hellyer, Paul, Royer, Louis, Lemyre, CarlSummary:
Mafia financière, ordre mondial, contacts extraterrestres Paul Hellyer révèle dans ce livre les failles de notre système bancaire et financier tout en analysant les causes de ce qui a fait déraper l’économie mondiale, dont l’...
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The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for...
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