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  1. Vallières, Pierre: White Niggers of America
    The Boyhood of Pierre Vallières
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    The boyhood of Pierre Vallières. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
  2. van Houten, Gerry: Reflections on the Canadian Left Today
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    A letter detailing some of the problems the author thinks the Canadian Left has been suffering from over the last three years.
  3. Varga, Steve: Toronto Islands
    Plant Communities and Noteworthy Species
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  4. Various: 25 and Still in the Red
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1988
    In this commemorative issue, Canadian Dimension kicks off its 25th anniversary by considering how it has survived since its inception and its achievements.
  5. Various: Where Are They Now?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1988
    Canadian Dimension tracks down a few 1960s activists for their impressions then and now.
  6. Various artists: Sounds of Dissent
    The Politics of Music
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 2003
  7. Vaughan, Colin: Body and Sewell: Why the Mayor's still champeen at City Hall
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
  8. Veblen, Thorstein: The Theory of the Leisure Class
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1899   Published: 1953
  9. Veltman, Kim: Understanding new media
    augmented knowledge and culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  10. Verzuh, Ron: Putting Goodwin's to Bed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
    Ron Verzuh, Goodwin's former managing editor, explains why the attempt to build a new national alternative magazine failed.
  11. Vickers, Simon: Jobs, Homes, and the Right to Exist
    Neighbourhood Activism in Deindustrializing Toronto and Montreal, 1963 - 1989
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2021
  12. Vidal, John: China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    More than 400 hydroelectric schemes are planned in the mountain region, which could be a disaster for the environment.
  13. Vidal, John: Global effects of GM crops questioned
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Twenty Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups have published a damning study, saying that GM (genetically modified) crops have failed to increase yield, while requiring farmers to increase their dependence on herbicides and pesticides.
  14. Vidal,John: Pakistan: 'Son, you brought electricity to the village and added 15 years to my life'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A micro-hydro programme bringing sustainable energy to a region of Pakistan ravaged by conflict and floods has won an Ashden award for lighting the future.
  15. Villares, Ricardo: Abel Santamaria
    A biographical sketch of the second in command of the assault on the Moncada Barracks
    Resource Type: Article
  16. Visser, Margaret: Much Depends on Dinner
    The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    An excursion through the history and mythology of an ordinary meal.
  17. Vistica, Gregory L.: Anchors Aweigh
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Abut the Tailhook scandal.
  18. Vollmann, William T.: "I am Here Only for Working"
    Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the petroleum industry in the United Arab Emirates through conversations with workers and foreign labourers. Many of the labourers come from abroad, work for very low wages, and live in crowded worker's camps designed to service the oil industry.
  19. Vollmann,William T.: Life as a Terrorist
    Uncovering my FBI file
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    An essay about William Vollmann's uncovering of his FBI file.
  20. Vroemen, Jac; Singels, Han; Werker, Hetty; Willemsen, Ine: Ngangula, een school in afrika
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
  21. Vulliamy, Ed; Smith, Helena: Children of the revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    When a 15-year-old schoolboy was shot in Athens in December, it triggered the worst civil unrest in Europe since 1968. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith join the frontline activists to talk anarchic protest, political upheaval and police brutality.