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Free Download An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People: I Have Lived Here Since the World Began, Fourth Edition By Arthur J. Ray
2016 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0773548009 | PDF | 40 MB
Canada's Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers, and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of growth and opportunity. But the two vastly different cultures soon clashed. Arthur Ray charts the history of Canada's Native people from first contact to current land claims. The result is a fascinating chronicle that spans 12,000 years and culminates in the headlines of today. In the preface to this new edition, Ray elaborates on the increasing effectiveness of Indigenous peoples and their leaders in bringing demands for justice to centre stage. He discusses recent court decisions, the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and the hope for change following promises made by the new Trudeau government.

Free Download Toula Drimonis, "We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants, and Belonging in Canada"
English | ISBN: 1773901214 | 2022 | 223 pages | EPUB | 774 KB
Ungrateful, opportunistic, moochers, dangerous, incompatible with our values and our way of life?

Free Download Jorge Frozzini, "Immigrant and Migrant Workers Organizing in Canada and the United States: Casework and Campaigns in a Neoliberal Era"
English | ISBN: 1498518125 | 2017 | 172 pages | EPUB | 649 KB
Across Canada and the United States, immigrant workers face important obstacles at work and in the broader society, whether their immigration status is temporary, permanent, or nonexistent. Hyper-precarious workers of all status groups, and their allies in unions and worker centers, are organizing to improve their conditions. In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law, two longtime volunteers with a Canadian worker center, draw on their own experience, in-depth interviews, and academic work from the fields of law, communication studies, and social movement theory, to produce a tactically focused, theoretically informed introduction to immigrant worker organizing in a neoliberal era. Frozzini and Law describe the phenomenon of employment precarity in the context of U.S. and Canadian labor history, explaining how union certification and collective bargaining function under the law. Without directing activists toward any single best strategy, they cover tactical and ethical questions raised when organizers offer casework as a recruitment and research tool. The royalties from this book will go to the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal.

Free Download Canada's Defence Procurement Woes by Jeffrey F. Collins
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 (2024 Edition) | 163 Pages | ISBN : 3031463625 | 3.1 MB
This book challenges the perceived underlying causes and culprits of the ongoing challenges in Canadian defence procurement, arguing that although headlines often put the blame on the political leadership, the defence procurement bureaucracy, ongoing pressures in the defence industry and continuous demands placed on Canada though its alliances also carry a large part of the responsibility. Focusing on four main case studies: the Fixed Wing Search and Rescue Plane, the Joint Support Ships, the Medium Support Vehicle System and the Halifax Class Modernization, the author offers a comparative analysis of how these ongoing procurement efforts were dealt with by different administrations, from Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin to Stephen Harper.

Free Download Bob Henderson, "More Trails, More Tales: Exploring Canada's Travel Heritage"
English | 2014 | pages: 372 | ISBN: 152523661X | EPUB | 4,4 mb
Draws on Canadian exploration, history, geography, anthropology, literature, and philosophy, striking a balance that will delight serious naturalists and armchair historians alike.

Free Download James Powell & Jill Moxley, "Faking It! A History of Counterfeiting in Canada"
English | 2013 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 1771230444 | EPUB | 21,5 mb
Counterfeiting is as old as money itself, and tales of the cunning criminals that try to outsmart the system have always enthralled us. This richly illustrated book introduces the reader to the history of the crime and some of the grisly punishments meted out in the past. It explores the arms race between the issuers of money and the counterfeiters, as well as cases of official counterfeiting in wartime. The focus then moves to Canada s experience with bogus bills and coins from the seventeenth century to the present day. While emphasizing that counterfeiting is not a victimless crime, the authors present fascinating case studies and profiles of the criminals and their adversaries. Today, the Bank of Canada and the RCMP are the front line in the fight to maintain confidence in Canada's currency. The changing face of bank note security is examined, culminating with the new polymer notes, and major counterfeiting busts by the RCMP are highlighted. The book wraps up with a look at the new frontier of counterfeiting crime: fraud involving credit and debit cards and electronic payment systems. Faking It! Read this enjoyable introduction to the world of bank note security and the constant struggle to protect the money in your pocket.

Free Download Arthur Milnes, "Canada Always: The Defining Speeches of Sir Wilfrid Laurier"
English | 2016 | pages: 528 | ISBN: 0771059779 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
In celebration of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's 175th birthday - November 20th, 2016 is "Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day" - this is the first time his most important and iconic speeches will be published in book form, annotated and with essays by a stunning array of politicians, journalists, and acclaimed academics.

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English | 2005 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 067931329X, 0679313303 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
According to Forbes magazine,* marijuana is "Canada's most valuable agricultural product - bigger than wheat, cattle or timber." Bud Inc. gives us an inside look at this thriving homegrown industry.

Free Download Enduring Work: Experiences with Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program by Catherine E. Connelly
English | May 15, 2023 | ISBN: 0228016681 | 228 pages | PDF | 2.69 Mb
If you believed most of what's said about the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker program, you might naturally assume that there is a trade-off between workers' poor experiences with the program and employers' significant benefits. In reality, the experiences of workers are far worse than is commonly acknowledged, while employers are not reaping as much benefit as the public might suppose.In Enduring Work Catherine Connelly draws on over one hundred interviews with people connected to different aspects of this program, analyzing their experiences from the perspective of organizational behaviour and human resources management. She compares the lived reality of agricultural workers, in-home caregivers, and low- and high-wage workers, showing how and why each group is vulnerable to mistreatment, albeit in different ways. She further explores how employment agencies and immigration consultants contribute to program abuses. Critically, Enduring Work provides the perspectives of employers, distinguishing between the reluctant users of the program who follow the rules and the reckless users who do not.Groundbreaking in its analysis of an issue very much in the news, Enduring Work unpacks the harms within Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program and offers nuanced strategies to improve it.