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  1. Wade, M.S.: Overlanders of '62
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1931   Published: 1981
  2. Waern, Rick: Financing a Cooperative Residence
    Resource Type: Article
    CUS paper 76-4-234
  3. Wagner, Pat: Network Resources
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
  4. Waiser, Bill: Park Prisoners
    The Untold of Western Canada's National Park, 1915-1946
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    The story of the labour camps that once existed in Canada's mountain and prairie national parks. Between 1915 and 1946, some ten thousand men were put to work in western Canada's national parks. They were the country's unwanted: unskilled foreign workers, the jobless and the homeless, conscientious objectors, perceived enemies of the state, and prisoners of war.
  5. Waiser, Bill: Park Prisoners
    The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks 1915 - 1946
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  6. Waite, P.B.: The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867
    Politics, Newspapers, and The Union of British North America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1962
  7. Waldon, Bob: A Guide to Feeding Winter Birds in Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  8. Walker, Peter: Archbishop of Canterbury embarrassed about church's financial link to Wonga
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Justin Welby 'irritated' to discover Church of England holds indirect £75,000 stake in payday lender he singled out for criticism.
  9. Walkom, Tom: Tory Talk
    How the Conservatives Captured the English Language
    Resource Type: Article
    Written after the Mulroney Conservatives took office in 1984.
  10. Wall, Kim: The Weekly Package
    How Cubans deliver culture without internet
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    With limited resources and government restrictions on internet access in Cuba, a thriving underground industry selling digital information has developed.
  11. Wall, Naomi Binder; Diemer, Ulli: Naomi Binder Wall Interview
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 2020
    Three interviews with Naomi Binder Wall conducted by Ulli Diemer in May 2020.
  12. Wall, Naomi, et al: We Make the Clothes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
  13. Wallach, Lori M.: Ten threats to Americans
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to American citizens.
  14. Walsh, Bill: The Elephants of Style
    A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Opinionated commentary on American English in the computer age.
  15. Walsh, Bill; with cartoons by Fred Wright: The Name of the Game
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
  16. Ward Seven: Dammed If You Do!
    Resource Type: Record (Vinyl)
  17. Ward, Colin: Connexions: Work
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Ward asks what do we want out of work? A fair wage or satisfaction as well? Do many of the methods employers use to try and make labour less tediou like automation -- actually create more problems?
  18. Ward, Stephen J.A.: The Invention of Journalism Ethics
    The Path to Objectivity and Beyond
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004   Published: 2005
  19. Warnes, Jennifer; Cohen, Leonard: Famous Blue Raincoat
    Resource Type: Audio
  20. Warnock, John W.: Metropolis/Hinterland
    The Lost Theme in Canadian Letters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    A review article of work on metropolitan domination over hinterland areas in the Canadian context, and a call for a return to that tradition within the social sciences.
  21. Warnock, John W.: Parliamentary Government and the New Democratic Party
    Resource Type: Article
  22. Warrian Peter: The Challenge of the One Big Union
    Resource Type: Article
  23. Warrian, Pete: Notes Toward a Strategy for a Student Power Movement
    Resource Type: Article
  24. Warrian, Pete: Staples, Structures and the State: Notes on Canadian Economic History uo to the Depression
    Resource Type: Article
  25. Wasserman, Miriam: School Mythology and the Education of Oppression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    An examination of social functions of schools and school mythology to understand why and how schools oppress. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1971.
  26. Wasserman, Miriam: Two Classes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    Miriam Wasserman sometimes comes away from a visit to a school with the feeling of haVing been in an insane asylum where the deraNged are the keepers and the sane are kept.
  27. Watkins, M.N.; Forster, D.F. (ed.): Economics: Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963
  28. Watkins, Mel: Learning to Move Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    The changing outlook of Mel Watkins.
    Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
  29. Watson, Janet: Business Writing Basics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2002
  30. Watson, Stanley (Ed.): On the Beam
    Highroads to reading Book 6
    Resource Type: Book
  31. Watt, Nicholas: Scandal forces Cameron to give details on Tory donor dinners
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Information has come to light that the British Prime Minister hosted private dinners in his official residences for wealthy donors.
  32. Watts, Alan: The Individual as Man/World
    Resource Type: Article
  33. Watts, Alan W.: Nature, Man and Woman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1970
    Watts aays that hositility to nature is characteristic of our culture, and is the root of our personal anxiety and loneliness, our fear of feeling, and our reluctance to love. Watts discusses the origians of this alienation from nature in Christianity and Western thought, contrasted with the Chinese philosophy of the Tao and its vision of nature as an organic whole in which humans are fully included and feel at home.
  34. Watts, Alan W.: The Two Hands of God
    The Myths of Polarity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963   Published: 1969
    An exploration of the myths of polarity, those crucial symbolic relationships such as light an darkness, good and evil, which illustrate the inner unity of opposites.
  35. Watts, Jonathan: Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower 'from persecution by the empire' and rejects US extradition request.
  36. Watts, Jonathan: World's conservation hopes rest on Ecuador's revolutionary Yasuni model
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation has put Yasuni national park at the frontline of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. But enthusiasm is cooling and this bold project may now be at as much at risk as the wildlife itself.
  37. Waugh, Tom: A heritage of pornography
    Article in the Body Politic, January-February 1983
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
    Tom Waugh reports on his exploration of some of the films in the collection of Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, and considers what they might tell us about gay cultural history.
  38. Waugh, Tom: Photography Passion and Power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    Tom Waugh on the Gay still-photo collection of the Kinsey Institute
  39. Weavers, The: Weavers at Carnegie Hall
    Resource Type: Audio
  40. Weavers, The: The Weavers: Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Audio
  41. Webber, Patrick: Entryism in Theory, in Practice, and in Crisis
    The Trotskyist Experience in New Brunswick 1969-1973
    Resource Type: Article
  42. Webster, Gary: Student Involvement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
  43. Webster, Paula: Pornography and Pleasure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1981
  44. Weeks, E.P.; Sommerville, Anne: The Future of the Atlantic Fisheries
    An interim report
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
  45. Wegg, Telfer: Rural Routes
    Exploring the Back Roads of Saugeen Country
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  46. Weihs, Jean Riddle; Lewis, Shirley: The Organization of Integrated Collections
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  47. Weihs, Jean Riddle; Lewis, Shirley; Macdonald, Janet: Nonbook Materials
    The Organization of Integrated Collections
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  48. Weil, George L.: Nuclear Energy: Promises, Promises
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1973
  49. Weil, Simone: On being attentive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
    Passages from an essay called "Reflections On The Right Use Of School Studies With A View To The Love Of God" written by French scholar, mystic and political activist Simone Weil in the 1940s.
  50. Weinberg, Thomas; Kamel, G.W. Levi (eds.): SandM
    Studies in Sadomasochism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  51. Weinroth, Michelle: Songs of the British Labour: Lyrical Protest and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    Despite their feelings of distress, their portrayals of discontent and their retelling of daily drudgery experienced by the British working class, these songs of labour which cannot elbow into the circle of high works of art, belong to another sphere of literature: that of political propaganda.
  52. Weir, Stanley: USA - The Labor Revolt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1967
  53. Weiser, Ann: How to Start and Operate a Many-to-Many Communication System Through the Mail
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
  54. Weiss, William V.: Health Care
    Conflicting Opinions Tough Decisions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  55. Weitz, Don: Bill Davis to Open Regent Health Centre
    Official Opening DEC.18 [1973]
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    After 4½ years of organizing, planning and numerous meetings with health professionals and governmental officials, Regent Park tenants have finally succeeded in getting their own community health centre.
  56. Weitz, Don: City slides into skid row
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Perhaps some city planners and alderpersons are finally starting to take a serious look at Toronto’s skid row areas and the people struggling to survive in them. And just perhaps, they’ll come up with some solid and humane proposals which will get translated into action.
  57. Wellman, David: Putting-on the Poverty Program
    Resource Type: Article
  58. Wells, Mary: As far as the person who is photographed in concerned
    Men like to look at women: Interview with a female photographer
    Resource Type: Article
    A conversation exploring the frictions that often seem to arise between men and women over the sexual implications of photography in a naturist setting.
  59. Wentzell, Tyler: The Toronto Reference Library's rich collection of Communist newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
  60. Wernick, Andy: The Canadian Sleep and the Student Left
    Thoughts for the CUS Seminar May 1969
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    A paper prepared for the Canadian Union of Students Seminar May 1969
  61. Weston, David J.: Proposal: For the Creation of Community Study Circles in B.C
    Resource Type: Article
  62. Wetzel, Juliane: "Displaced Persons". Ein vergessenes Kapitel der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    At the end of the Second World War, the three western zones of Germany contained approximately 7 million "displaced person".
  63. Wharf, Brian; Clague, Michael: Community Organizing: Canadian Experiences
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Essays looking at four decades of community organizing in Canada.
  64. Wheeler, Glenn: Left awakes
    John Clarke cheers conference with plan to bring down Mike Harris
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    It was a bombshell of a week in Toronto politics, one in which the two extremes of left-wing politics - the hard and the soft - gave two Toronto audiences their points of view, prognoses and programs.
  65. Wheeler, Glenn: Local gay bookstore busted for selling lesbian S/M mag
    Community activists meet to plan legal and political defence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
  66. Wheeler, Susan: Women and the Political Economy
    Wages for Housework
    Resource Type: Article
    Article from the magazine 'Our Generation' spanning pages 44 to 61 that situates itself as a defense of feminism, highlighting two major contributions of the women's movement: sisterhood, and the struggle against domination.
  67. White, E.B.: The Door
    Resource Type: Article
  68. White, Josh: Strange Fruit
    Songs by Josh White
    Resource Type: Audio
  69. Whitehead, Peter: Crisis Fund for Independent Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The global financial crisis is threatening to silence independent news outlets more effectively than any government. The Media Development Loan Fund's (MDLF) Crisis Fund is providing vital support to help clients survive the recession.
  70. Whitehorn, Alan: Alienatin and Workers' Self-Management
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
  71. Whitehorn, Alan: Canadian Socialism
    Essays on the CCF-NDP
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A comprehensive study of the NDP and its precursor the CCF, covering party manifestos, national conventions, and biographical profiles of federal leaders T.C. Douglas, David Lewis, and Ed Broadbent.
  72. Whitelock, Dorothy: The Beginnings of English Society
    History of England
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952   Published: 1979
  73. Whyman, Ritch: The G8, Globalization and Resistance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
  74. Whyte, William H. Jr.: The Organization Man
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1957
  75. Wigdor, Blossom T.: Planning Your Retirement
    The Complete Canadian Self-Help Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1987
  76. Wilcox, James: Two Tactics
    Resource Type: Article
  77. Wilkinson, Douglas: The Arctic Coast
    The Illustrated Natural History of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  78. Wilkinson, Judith: A Guide to basic print production, Book 1 Planning the project
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  79. Wilkinson, Judith: A Guide to basic print production, Book 2 Designing and producing artwork
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  80. Wilkinson, Judith: A Guide to basic print production, Book 3 Printing processes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  81. Wilkinson, Judith: A Guide to basic print production, Book 4 Managing resources
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  82. Williams, Charles: Erwin Baur (1915-2016)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Erwin Baur, radical trade unionist and founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), died on November 30, 2016, in Alameda, California at the age of 101. Unlike many veteran unionists of the 1930s generation, Baur made a youthful contract with revolutionary socialism that he never broke.
  83. Williams, David: Imagined Nations
    Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    A basic look at the effects different forms of media have had on Canadian novels and film adaptations and cyberspace, and how these affect the sense of time and space and national identities.
  84. Williams, Glyndwr: The Hudson's Bay Company and The Fur Trude: 1670-1870
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  85. Williams, Zoe: Gay Rights: A World of Inequality
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In the 82 countries that still criminalize homosexuality, new NGOs are taking a top down approach to making change. They are liaising with top ranking officials and establishing global legal networks to challange criminalization on the grounds that it contravenes intenational human rights law.
  86. Williston, Floyd: Paul Robeson, 1898-1998
    Resource Type: Article
    Remembering Paul Robeson on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
  87. Willms: Cook, Ramsay; Bliss, J. M.; Robin, Martin: Conscription 1917
    Resource Type: Book
  88. Wilson, H. T: Retreat From Governance
    Canada and the Continental-International Challenge
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  89. Wiltsee, Joseph L.: Guide to Personal Business
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1980
  90. Winbush, Jeff: Porn stripped of its secrets
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Covering the pornography industry.
  91. Winchell, Constance: A Guide to Reference Books
    Resource Type: Book
    The basic reference text for librarians. "Not for the beginner or casual research."
  92. Winkler, Ilene: Women Workers
    the forgotten third of the working class
    Resource Type: Article
    A pamphlet discussing the position of women workers in the United States, including graphs, charts, and data tables, with interpretation. Topics include familial status of women workers, salaries, increase of workers over time, industries, and educational achievement.
  93. Winston, Stephanie: Getting Started
    The easy way to put your life in order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  94. Winston, Stephanie: The Organized Executive
    A program for productivity: New ways to manage time, paper, and people
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  95. Wise, Wyndham (ed.): Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    A reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, with reviews, biographical listings, and a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history.
  96. Wiseberg, Laurie: The Importance of Freedom of Association for Human Rights NGOs
    Defending Human Rights Defenders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
  97. Wiseberg, Laurie S., Lopez, Guadalupe, Meselson, Sarah: Human Rights Directory: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Human Rights Internet Reporter, Special Issues Volume 13, No. 2 & 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    Describes nearly 800 organizations concerned with Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus is primarily on non-governmental organizations; relevant governmental and inter-governmental bodies are also described.
  98. Wiseman, Ian: Silent University Support Aids Our War Machine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    A reprint of an article from Excalibur (York University) by Ian Wiseman.
    Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
  99. Wolf, Naomi: US has a new tool to control the masses
    No one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a troubling anti-democratic development in a nation that is quickly expanding police powers.
  100. Wolfe, Robert; Aronson, Ronald: Imperialism: An Exchange
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1966
  101. Wolfson, Michael C.: A Discussion of Educational Opportunity Bank Type Proposals
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
  102. Wolfson, Sharon: She Was Stan's Girl...
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    Sharon Wolfson has been teaching seventh and eight grade girls an elective course, "The Role of Women in Society". The first assignment is to find a toy, book, advertisement or game that 'teaches you how to be a girl'.
  103. Wood, Alan: Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Sceptic
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1957   Published: 1963
    A biography of Bertrand Russell.
  104. Wood, Michael: Hi ho, Silver!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Review article
  105. Woodcock, George: Odysseus Ever Returning
    Essays on Canadian writers and writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  106. Woodcock, George: Paul Goodman: The Anarchist as Conservator
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
    Woodcock sets out to examine how Goodman uses the past, and how in doing so he continues and extends one of the vital currents in anarchist thought -- the current which, to use terms that seem at variance with most commonly held views of anarchism, is both traditional and aristocratic.
  107. Woodworth, Fred: Porn Wars
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    A look at what happened in Tucson when feminists tried to set up censorship.
  108. Wright, L.R.: Prized Possessions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  109. Wright, Steve: Russia: The Making of the Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
  110. Wykes, Alan: The Nuremberg Rallies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  111. Wylie, Betty Jane: Enough
    Lifestyle and Financial Planning for Simpler Living
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  112. Wylynko, David: You Can't Give it Away: Donating Land for Conservation Can be a Taxing Experience
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993