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  1. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
  2. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  3. A debate on ‘Who speaks for me?’ - Tanuka Loha vs. Kenan Malik
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Kenan Malik says: I reject representation by identity not only because the idea that one should be represented only by one’s own kind is, and always has been, at the heart of the racist agenda, but also because such representation acts as an obstacle to what you call ‘a genuinely participatory democracy’. Why? Because it encourages the pursuit of sectional interests, rather than of common goals. The very system of ethnic representation that encourages people to see their problems in narrow, sectional terms.
  4. "I think the dead are with us": John Berger at 88
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A brief biography and recounting of a meeting by the author with the late author John Berger.
  5. Inclusion or exclusion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
  6. Our Generation
    Volume 20 Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  7. Researcher loses job at NSF after government questions her role as 1980s activist
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Valerie Barr was 22 and living in New York City in 1979 when she became politically active. A recent graduate of New York University with a master’s degree in computer science, Barr handed out leaflets, stood behind tables at rallies, and baked cookies to support two left-wing groups, the Women’s Committee Against Genocide and the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. Despite her passion for those issues, she had a full-time job as a software developer that took precedence.
  8. Sources welcomes Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society. The Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society monitors and reports on the population status of Arctic marine mammals.

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