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  1. Back in the gutter again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Proposed federal legislation on pornography is so bad, only the loonies support it. Unfortunately, the loonies are in power.
  2. Back to the Land in Romania
    A Pig, Milk and Cheap Veg Against EU Agribusiness
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The EU sends Europeanisation agents across Romania to end subsistence farming and encourage agricultural competition. But those who have turned to self-sufficient farming because of austerity resist the world of the CAP.
  3. Back to Work at Imperial
    Resource Type: Article
    The strike at Imperial Typewriters is over. Phased return to work has been negotiated. Race Today concludes the final chapter in the victorious struggle of Asian workers.
  4. Background Information to the Development of a Coodinated Program Strategy
    Southern Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  5. Bagamoyo, Tanzania
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
  6. Bain Co-op Newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    Newsletter published by the Bain Avenue housing co-operative in Toronto. The issues archived at Connexions are from 1978 through 1981.
  7. Bakunin and Japan
    Libero International No. 5, Sept 1978
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
  8. Bakunin's Concept of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    If we are to understand the anarchist brand of revolutionary socialism developed by Michael Bakunin we should first recognize his populist predispositions.
  9. Bangkok's Big Brother is watching you
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Abigail Haworth charts the rise of General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his despotic regime.
  10. Bangladesh volunteers learn to make a life-or-death difference in a disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, civilians - often first on the scene of disasters in poorer countries - are being trained to support emergency teams.
  11. Bangladesh's penny bank gives hope to the rural poor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
  12. The Bare Facts
    My Life as a Stripper
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  13. Barr to be Board Chairman
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Ward Seven school trustee Doug Barr seems certain to become the next chairman of the Toronto School Board.
  14. Barrie Zwicker's 9/11 Resource Guide
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
  15. The Barron Book
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  16. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
    A collection of passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1855   Published: 1980
  17. Base de Datos Mujer
    Chile Informacion Bibliografica
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  18. Basic Documents of the Spartacist League - Part 1
    Resource Type: Article
    Dcouments 1963-1966.
  19. Basic Documents of the Spartacist League - Part 2
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969   Published:
    Resolutions adopted by the Second National Conference, 30 August - 1 September 1969.
  20. Basic Documents of the Spartacist League - Part 3
    Resource Type: Article
  21. Basic Reference Sources
    Resource Type: Book
  22. Basis for Affiliation
    Resource Type: Article
  23. Bathurst Banner
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Student newspaper at Bathurst Heights Secondary School in North York (Toronto) in the 1960s.
  24. Bats in Your Hair?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1988
    One of the legends that has made many of us more than a little nervous about bats claims that they are prone to crashing into you and getting caught in your hair. Scientists say that is just a myth, but do we really believe them when they say that? Last week I got a chance to test the theory – and my nerve.
  25. 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.
  26. The Bay Area Radical Teachers Organizing Committee
    Education and Corporate Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1972
  27. BC's green accords
    The Tin Wis Coalition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Environmentalists, aboriginal people and loggers have made encouraging progress in British Columbia in united to defend the environment.
  28. The Beach in Pictures, 1793 - 1932
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Traces the chronological development of Toronto Beach (Beaches) neighbourhood, and highlights the area's important personalities, institutions, and landmarks. Includes origins of 28 Beach names.
  29. Bear Tribe Catalog 1980
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  30. Beating the Bushes
    A Resource Guide
    Resource Type: Article
  31. Beautiful
    A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 2003
  32. The Beaver - February-March 2000 issue
    Volume 80, Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    Special issue on Contemplating Our Century.
    There is a copy of this publication in the Connexions Archive.
  33. Beavis appointment to Planning Board
    Resource Type: Paper File - File Folder
    First Published: 1974
    Handwritten notes based on interviews with several Toronto politicians.
  34. Becoming Political
    The Growth of the Quebec Teachers' Union
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    This article was originally written in This Magazine in French.
    Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1972.
  35. Before the Deluge
    How Washington sealed Puerto Rico's fate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the problems facing Puerto Rico prior to Hurricane Maria, which was already a plundered and mis-managed society with crumbling infrastructure long before the hurricane struck.
  36. Beginner's Guide to Group Sex
    Who Does What to Whom and How
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
  37. The Beginnings of English Society
    History of England
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952   Published: 1979
  38. Behind Canadian Barbed Wire
    Alien, Refugee and Prisoner of War Camps in Canada 1914-1920 and 1939-1946
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980   Published: 1998
  39. Behind Iranian Lines
    Travels Through Revolutionary Iran and the Persian Past
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  40. Behind the Cheering
    Resource Type: Book
  41. Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Sceptic
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1957   Published: 1963
    A biography of Bertrand Russell.
  42. Best Hiking Trails in Western Newfoundland
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  43. The Best of Phil Ochs
    Resource Type: Audio
  44. Bethune
    his story in pictures / son histore illustree - Bilingula Bilingue
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    This book is based on a picture book entitled Dr. Bethune, published in Chinese in Shanghai by the Shanghai People's Publishing House.
  45. Beware the Secret Sex Police
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    From the days of Anthony Comstock and the 1873 Comstock Act to the present, the U.S. Justice Department has been infested with a small band of moral vigilantes who use its power and that of the Postal Service to prosecute and persecute a carefully selected few publishers, small businessmen, and ordinary citizens for 'illegal' or 'obscene' activites of a personal nature in the area of sex.
  46. Beyond Oppression, Beyond Diversity: Class Analysis and Gender Inequality
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    Massive increases in tuition fees resulting from government cutbacks to education were not addressed at a Status of Women conference -- an indication that much of what shall be referred to in this paper as "left feminism" has increasingly lost its way.
  47. Beyond Pearl Harbor
    Essay on Some Historical Consequences of the Crisis in the Pacific in 1941
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1981
  48. Beyond War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
  49. Bias in Social Science Research
    CBC Ideas program broadcast on December 6 and 13, 1990
    Resource Type:
    First Published: 1990
    Discussion featuring Augustine Brannigan, William Fisher Farrel Christensen, and Max Allen. There is a transcript in the Connexions Archive.
  50. Big business is not to blame
    Corporations would act on global warming but are stalled by government in the name of the market
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Innovative technologies are available to improve the energy efficiency of residential and commercial properties. Businesses who want to adopt these new technologies would be placing themselves at a disadvantage to do so, unless governments mandate improved efficiency standards -- which they refuse to do.
  51. Big Ideas
    For growing your Business
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  52. The Big Ripoff
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  53. The biggest threat to a free society is freedom of speech, says Canada’s Public Safety Minister
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Canada's "Public Safety" Minister Steven Blaney says that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only Germany hadn't suffered from an excess of freedom of speech.
  54. Bill 274: The Great Debate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
  55. 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. Bioregion
    A Means TO Community Control
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    An increasing amount of research demonstrates how the destruction of the environment and the growing levels of social disruption happening worldwide are related to the way the global economic system is organized, with its emphasis on competition, profit, and world trade.
  57. Bird calls: Elaine's own
    Resource Type: Audio
  58. The bird that travels 29,000km a year
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The Rufa red knot's epic annual migration from Tierra del Fuego to the Canadian Arctic risks being grounded by climate change.
  59. Birder Extraordinaire
    The life and legacy of James L. Baillie
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A biography of the naturalist Jim Ballie.
  60. A Bird-Finding Guide to Ontario
    Where the birds are and how to get there
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  61. A Birdfinding Guide to the Toronto Region
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  62. The Birds of Newfoundland
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951
  63. Birds of Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  64. Bisexuality: A Choice Not an Echo?
    A Very Personal Confession by "Orlando"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    While the sexual case histories of bisexuals vary wildly in almost every other respect, this same quirk-of-fate, right-person-at-the-right-time pattern is common.
  65. Bisexuality and women
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
    We believe there is a need for a better understanding of bisexuality in the women's movement.
  66. Bissell Thesis and Replies
    Resource Type: Article
  67. Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado's marijuana market
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Inside Colorado's black market for pot, segregation and resentment flourish.
  68. Black Power: SNCC Speaks for Itself
    A Collection of Interviews and Statements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1966
  69. Blake
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    A biography of William Blake.
  70. The Blind Men and the Elephant
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
  71. Bloody Victory
    Canadians and the D-Day Campaign 1944
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  72. Blue Book 2002
    Directory of Community Services in Toronto Bringing People and Services Together
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
  73. Blue Highways
    A Journey Into America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Least Heat Moon travels the backroads, the "blue highways", of the USA.
  74. Blueprint for Heaven on Earth
    Resource Type: Article
  75. The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
    Resource Type: Book
  76. The Bodies in The Forest
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An excerpt from Gessen's book "Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia", published by Columbia Global Reports. The book examines Stalin's extensive network of labour camps that held and killed millions of prisoners in 1930s to the 1950s.
  77. Body and Sewell: Why the Mayor's still champeen at City Hall
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
  78. Bolivia's coup
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
  79. The Bone Collectors
    A Brutal Chapter in Australia's Past
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The remains of hundreds of Aboriginal people, dug up from sacred ground and once displayed in museums all over the world, are now stored in a Canberra warehouse. When will they be given a national resting place?
  80. A Book about Birth Control
    6th Edition, Summer 1988
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1988
  81. A Book about Menopause
    1st Edition, May 1988
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  82. A Book about Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    5th Edition, Summer 1988
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1988
  83. Book List for Introduction to Marxism Course
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
  84. Book of Laws of the International Typographical Union
    Resource Type: Article
  85. The Book of Survival
    Everyman's Guide to Staying Alive and Handling Emergencies in the City, the Suburbs, & the Wildlands
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1976
    How to think, act, and stay alive in any emergency.
  86. The Book of Terns
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  87. Book Publishers Directory
    Resource Type: Book
  88. Book Publishing Resource Guide
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    A directory of key contacts for marketing and promoting books.
  89. Bookkeeping Handbook
    For low income citizen groups
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
  90. Books (My own books, many now indexed on computer (ULLIDOCS.DBF) and in card file)
    Resource Type: Book
  91. Books in Print
    Resource Type: Book
  92. Bookworm's goulash: A taster's choice of the good, bad and indifferent
    Book reviews
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
  93. Bookworms Rejoice
    Digital deal paves the way for online access
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Google and the US book industry struck a deal to sell digitized books online and distribute royalties to their authors and publishers through a third party.
  94. Boracay islanders fear for their lives in battle with Philippine tourist trade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Hotel security guard is charged with murder after shooting of spokesman for Ati people, who claim ancestral land rights.
  95. Borderline Case
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    The bizarre trial of Dr. James Tyhurst on charges of sadism and sexual abuse revealed that in the practice of psychiatry little is certain, and in the courts even less.
  96. Borders and Barriers
    An Education Kit: Canada's Policy on Refugee/Family Reunification
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  97. Boundaries of Identity
    A Quebec Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  98. Bourinot's Rules of Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963
  99. Boys: Do you know where your mothers are?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Dr. Miriam Garfinkle got tired of being just the mom in the stands. She instigated the uprising from fan to player at her son's house league championship team party.
  100. Brazil Puts the Arts in the Pockets of the Poor with New Cultural Coupon Scheme
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The government hopes $20 Vale Cultura voucher will encourage poorest Brazilians to sample wider range of cultural pursuits.
  101. Breakfasts keep friendships in shape
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Profile of a fitness group that has a fifteen year standing breakfast date, and has become a support group and circle of friends.
  102. Breaking the Hurt/Counter-Hurt Cycle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
  103. Breaking Up Ontario Hydro's Monopoly.
    Resource Type: Book
  104. Breast cancer realities
    Resource Type: Article
    Judging by the Globe and Mail coverage, it appears that breast cancer only strikes women who have six figure incomes, most of whom, apparently, are also high-profile media personalities. This is not the case. Working-class women and women living in poverty also get breast cance
  105. Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
    Introduction to the July 2, 2016 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A constant theme in elite reaction to the Brexit referendum, expressed especially through the mainstream media, has been a visceral contempt for democracy. Ordinary working people are portrayed as stupid and reactionary, incapable of understanding how wonderful the European Union project is. Again and again, one hears the comment that the great unwashed should not be allowed to vote on issues which they are incapable of understanding. This reaction is not new: ruling classes for centuries have loathed democracy, which is seen as an existential threat to the wealth and privileges of the elite.
  106. Bridging the Chasm Between Two Cultures
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    A full-on clash of cultures makes communication extremely difficult between the skeptical community and the metaphysical/new age community.
  107. Brief by the Ontario New Democratic Youth to the Executive of the Ontario New Democratic Party, April 27, 1972
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    A response from the NDY to the attack on the left in the Ontario NDP in 1972.
  108. Brief calls for changes at Wellesley
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Recommendations contained in a brief submitted to Wellesly Hospital.
  109. A Brief Guide to Bourgeois Ideology
    Resource Type: Article
  110. Bright Frenetic Mills
    Easy Chair
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Chronicling the decline of the print media industry and the rise of market driven online content mills, the author speculates about professional standards in journalism and how they might have a hope of being upheld.
  111. Bringing Life to Artificial Ponds
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
  112. Britain took more out of India than it put in -- Could China do the same to Britain?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Large parts of India's economy were destroyed by British technology in the 1800s, and by deals that favoured British shareholders. Today, it's China that holds that kind of power.
  113. B.C. Teachers Turn Political
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    Political conflict between the BCTF and the government.
    Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1972.
  114. British Nationalism and the EEC
    Resource Type: Article
  115. British Union Catalogue of Periodicals
    Resource Type: Book
  116. Broadcasting Cable Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Book
    Directory of cable systems, owners, program information, suppliers, equipment manufactures, US and Canada.
  117. Broken Heartland
    The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Today, the idea of a return to nature, which a pair of academics named Frank and Deborah Popper, first described twenty five years ago in a scholarly article entitled "The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust," has become central to almost any conversation about the region's future.
  118. Brother
    A forum for men against sexism - No. 11-12
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1875
    An anthology of personal and political writings.
  119. The Bruce Trail Reference
    Trail Guides and Maps
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  120. Build a Base in the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
  121. Building Freedom: Mozambique's Frelimo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    This pamphlet presents the philosophy, purposes and programs of FRELIMO, the Mozambique Liberation Front.
  122. Building Media Relationships
    How to Establish, Maintain, and Develop Long-Term Relationships
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Sommers wrote this guide to teach how media can be used to raise an organization's public profile and improve its connection with the target audience.
  123. Building the Revolutionary Party
    Hallas, Duncan
    Resource Type: Article
    Duncan Hallas reviews Tony Cliff's book on Lenin.
  124. Bulls and Bears
    Winning in the Stock Market in Good Times and Bad
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  125. Bumpy ride
    Why America's roads are in tatters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A look at America's negleced infrastructure of roads and bridges. Despite declining conditions, particularly on secondary roads, Republicans continued to press for less State funding- which they termed "devolution".
  126. Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: Oppositions- order Regierungspartie?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
  127. Buoyant thinking for the future
    Homes that float could provide a solution for often-flooded regions in Thailand
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Building amphibious homes in Thailand that are designed to weather the annual flooding.
  128. Burnt bridges and a generation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    A first person account of the struggle the children of immigrants face in communicating with their grandparents across a language barrier.
  129. Business Correspondence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1930   Published: 1943
  130. Business Incorporators Handbook
    Resource Type: Article
  131. The Business of the Country is Selling Out the Country
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    The sale of Ryerson Press and other things.
    Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
  132. Business Writing Basics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2002
  133. By Heart
    The Life of Elizabeth Smart
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    A biography of the author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.
  134. By the people, for the people?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    A tiny group of appointed politicians is ignoring the what the people have said they want.