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Marlies’ Recipes for ‘The Secret Life’

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

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I focus on healing and balancing the microbiome, because the bacteria in your gut can affect the health of your digestive system, immune system, and mental wellbeing. Since making fermentation an … ; 36 $3.60 Add
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Out of Harm’s Way

From: Fighting For Space

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This chapter highlights the first ever conference (Out of Harm’s Way) held in Vancouver for harm reduction. The primary thrust was providing stable housing options, educating general public … 27 $0.54 Add
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Reforming the comfort zone so that doctors are no longer in denial

From: Doctors in Denial

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Outlines the needed reforms to the interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession, outlining industry’s role, government’s role, and the medical … 45 $4.50 Add
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The P earson Years, 1963–1968

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

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Describes the development of the federation under Prime Minister Lester Pearson including the Quebec and Canada Pension Plans, the rise of separatism, Medicare, the constitution and foreign … 24 $2.40 Add
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The Pandemic as an Invitation to Change

From: Basic Income For Canadians

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The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well

Interdependence

From: On Opium

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This chapter explores community, including various methods of harm reduction and a conference in Portugal, where all drugs have been decriminalized. The author describes online support systems … 58 $5.80 Add
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Twelve

From: Holden After & Before

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You Are Never Alone

From: About Face

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On Alcohol and Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors … 6 $0.60 Add
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Appendices

From: Field Excercises

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Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. The appendices consist of a … 11 $1.10 Add
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From Housing to Harm Reduction

From: Fighting For Space

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This chapter highlights the synergy between VANDU and PHS as they grappled to establish basic facilities for the homeless population in Vancouver. Caught in the sparring between the health board … 26 $0.52 Add
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Oppression and the Political Economy of Health Inequities Elizabeth

From: Oppression

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This chapter seeks to understand health from a structural perspective, which involves analyzing the origins and results of social, political, economic and cultural power hierarchies. 20 $2.00 Add
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Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial Interests

From: Medicare

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Analyzes the Canadian Health Care System and to what extent it falls under the domain of trade treaties despite the assurance that it is beyond trade treaties reach 10 $1.00 Add
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Thirteen

From: Holden After & Before

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Year One

From: About Face

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On Alcohol and Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors … 6 $0.60 Add
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Canada’s Single-payer Medicare:

Role Model for Taiwan

From: Medicare

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Examines the adoption of a single-payer medicare system in Taiwain that is based off the model of Canada’s system and looks at the potential for public underfunding 7 $0.70 Add