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  1. After the Crash
    The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy

    Resource Type: Book
  2. Assaulting Public Education in Canada: Privatization Plague Spreads
    Against The Current vol. 82

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    For the past six years right-wing provincial governments across Canada have embraced the neoliberal agenda of “educational reform.” Four provinces in particular, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have led the charge in dismantling public education in favor of market-driven alternatives.
  3. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences

    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
  4. Canada: Activists Face the Future
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Electoral politics present challenging problems for labor movements all over the world. In the absence of strong working class parties, labor activists are often compelled to support parties that implement anti-worker legislation simply because they represent a lesser evil. While reforms are certainly necessary, the investment of activist energy and resources into the electoral process can often distract union and social justice organizations, preventing them from undertaking the important task of generating solidarity within more impoverished segments of the working class.
  5. Canada and the State of the Planet
    The Social, Economic and Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Lives

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  6. Canada Firsts Ralph Nader's Salute to Canada and Canadian Achievement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  7. Canada's Great Divide
    The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
  8. Canada's Social Economy
    Co-Operatives, Non-Profits, and Other Community Enterprises

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  9. The Canadian City
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
  10. Class Warfare
    The Assault on Canada's School

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
  11. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  12. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  13. Connexions Library: Canada Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Canada.
  14. Debt Bondage Or Self-Reliance
    A Popular Perspective on the Global Debt Crisis

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    Describes the effects of international debt on workers, the unemployed, and peasants who neither asked for or benefit from such debt. It describes the growing number of people's movements in Canada and developing nations who are struggling against austerity measures.
  15. Fake grassroots advocacy part of TransCanada's plan to silence Energy East critics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Documents show plans to "pressure" pipeline critics by working with third parties and industry-funded grassroots advocacy groups in favour of Energy East.
  16. Fields of Vision
    A Journey to Canada's Family Farms

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  17. FTAA, The Hydra's New Head
    Against The Current vol. 90

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Capitalism in many ways is like the mythical hydra of Greek legend, a gigantic serpent with multiple heads, the center one being immortal; every time an attacker chopped off one of its outer heads, two others grew in its place. It was killed by Heracles, with the assistance of his charioteer Iolaus. As Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaus would burn its neck cavity to keep new heads from growing. Eventually they were able to reach the center head and sever it from the body.
  18. Global Thoughts, Local Actions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
  19. The Globe and Mail as corporate apologists: behind the love affair with Barrick Gold
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a Canadian gold mine operates amongst the Ipili people, who were one of the last major ethnic groups to be contacted by the Australian colonial administration of New Guinea, or "white man", in 1939. Since that date, Porgera was known for its rich gold deposits and eventually became the site of one of the largest gold mines in the world. Today, Porgera is a site of controversy, as it riches are overshadowed by stories of gang rapes and killings of the Ipili people at the hands of Barrick security and police.
  20. The Great War and Canadian Society
    An Oral History

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Recollections of Canadian men and women who lived thorugh the First World War and recall life in the trenches and on the homefront.
  21. Greenpeace
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  22. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  23. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
  24. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  25. Last Stand of the Lubicon Cree
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  26. Long Way From Home 
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
  27. The Movement and the Sixties
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
  28. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
  29. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
  30. Our Generation
    Volume 1, Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1961
    The first issue of the journal Our Generation Against Nuclear War
  31. Our Generation
    Volume 1 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1962
    Special Supplement on the Berlin & German Question
  32. Our Generation
    Volume 1 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1962
  33. Our Generation
    Volume 2 number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1962
  34. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1964
  35. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1964
  36. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1965
    Special Issue on Unilateralism
  37. Our Generation
    Volume 5 Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1967
  38. Our Generation
    Volume 5 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1967
  39. Our Generation
    Volume 7 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  40. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
  41. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  42. Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial ministries, direct phone and fax numbers, E-mail addresses, World Wide Web addresses, all indexed by subject. Available in print and online at $75/year.
  43. Peacemaking in the 1990s
    A Guide For Canadians

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  44. Pensions Under Attack
    What's behind the push to privatize public pensions

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Townson discusses the forces behind the drive to privatize public pensions and its impact on the financial security of seniors. In doing so, she traces a history from Pinochet's Chile to Thatcher's Great Britain to critique Canada's move toward privatization.
  45. Pledge of Allegiance
    The Americanization of Canada in the Mulroney Years

    Resource Type: Book
  46. Poverty in Wealth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
  47. Privatization by Stealth: Canadian Health Care in Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 85

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The recent growth of obstacles to getting health care here in the United States has led to a renewed interest in Canada's system of universal access, called Medicare. Premium inflation has accelerated after stabilizing in the mid-1990s.
  48. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2017
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
  49. Restructuring and Resistance
    Diverse voices of struggle in Western Europe

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The book consists of 77 individual chapters, almost all of them written by activists based on their experiences of struggle against the different aspects of capitalist globalisation. Those that aren't are chapters that give a theoretical background that links these struggles together, particularly in the opening section, 'The Europe of Capital'.
  50. The Rising Seas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  51. The Socialist Register 1984
    Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  52. Sources.com 
    Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers

    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
    Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
    Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
  53. Statistics Canada WWW site
    Resource Type: Website
    Texts of daily reports; publications catalogues; CANSIM directory and index to subjects with matrix numbers (but not CANSIM itself).
  54. Stolen Continents
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
  55. The Swastika and the Maple Leaf
    Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thirities

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    Betcherman deals with Adrien Arcand and other leading Canadian fascists of the 1930s, as well as Swastika Clubs, and fascist movements in the west.
  56. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  57. Thinking About Self-Determination 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
    Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
  58. Venezuela declares Craib Kowalik, Canada's Chargé d'Affaires in Caracas, persona non gratas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Last week Venezuela declared Canada's chargé d'affaires in Caracas persona non grata. In making the announcement the president of the National Constituent Assembly Delcy Rodriguez denounced Craib Kowalik's "permanent and insistent, rude and vulgar interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela."
  59. The Wealthy Banker's Wife 
    The Assault on Equality in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  60. Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  61. Working in Steel
    The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Emphasizes the importance of changes in the work world for the larger patterns of working-class life.
  62. Yesterday's News
    Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

Experts on Canada in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Encyclopedia
  2. La Francophonie
  3. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  4. Organization of American States
  5. Sources
  6. United Nations
  7. Wikileaks

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