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History and Current Events December 2019
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The Feminist Handbook : Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy
by Ph.D. Bagshaw, Joanne L.
From reproductive rights and the wage gap to #MeToo and #TimesUp—gender inequality has permeated nearly every aspect of our culture. With this revolutionary feminist self-help guide, readers will find powerful tools they can use every day to combat the effects discrimination and gender inequality, improve self-confidence, build resilience and actively resist the gendered messages they’ve internalized from living in an openly sexist, patriarchal society.
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Harry Livingstone's forgotten men : Canadians and the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War
by Dan black
About 300,000 Chinese labourers were recruited by the British, French, and Russian allies during the First World War. Nearly 84,000 of them passed through Canada on their way to France. Livingstone and other officers kept diaries and journals, and wrote letters home telling of their experiences with the Chinese. From these first-person accounts as well as historical records and from rare letters written by Chinese labourers themselves, author Dan Black offers for the first time a full account of Canadians and the Chinese Labour Corps.
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Shut Away : When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence
by Catherine McKercher
Three of the McKercher children lived at home. The fourth, her youngest brother, Bill, did not. Bill was born with Down syndrome. When he was two and a half, his parents took him to the Ontario Hospital School in Smiths Falls and left him there. Like thousands of other families, they exiled a child with disabilities from home, family, and community. The rupture in her family always troubled McKercher. Following Bill's death in 1995, and after the sprawling institution where he lived had closed, she applied for a copy of Bill's resident file. What she found shocked her.
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Un-canadian : Prejudice and Discrimination Against Muslims in Canada
by Graeme Truelove
Spanning settings from dark prison cells in Guantanamo Bay and Syria to the gilded corridors of power on Parliament Hill, this book centres on fundamental notions of social cohesion and the value of Canadian citizenship issues which continue to make headlines. Canadians who are worried about the direction our country is headed will consider this a must-read.
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