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Canadian Experiments with Basic Income

Canadian Experiments with Basic Income

From: Basic Income For Canadians

This chapter provides brief overviews of limited-scale experiments with basic income across Canada, how they were implemented and their results. 23 $2.30 Add
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Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability Debate

Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability Debate

From: Medicare

Looks at the Health Care affordability debate by exploring what is left out of the statistics used by the Government such as population growth, inflation and income growth. Looks at what it would … 8 $0.80 Add
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Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care Policy

Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care Policy

From: Medicare

I discuss the majority judges’ poor appreciation of the interface between public and private health insurance across different health care systems and how, subsequently, this lack of … 45 $4.50 Add
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 18

Social Media

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

Wood compares two equations: the number of hours on the Apollo mission over eleven years and the number of combined hours humanity spent on social media in 2019. Quitting social media isn’t … 14 $1.40 Add
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Cigarettes

Cigarettes

From: Wigmore on Nicotine and its Drug Delivery Systems

Chapter Four includes the following topics: History – Filters/Light Cigarettes, Menthol, Other Additives/Flavours/Toxins – Health Risks – Secondhand/Passive Smoke – Third- … 159 $15.90 Add
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Closing the Gap

Closing the Gap

From: Losing me, While Losing You

In this chapter, the editors of the volume explore ways in which “gaps” are being addressed in the field of dementia care. ; ; 38 $3.80 Add
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Completing the Vision:

Completing the Vision:

Achieving the Second Stage of Medicare

From: Medicare

Looks at the original vision for Medicare in Saskatchewan, how the system as worked where implemented properly, how the second stage has been left out of implementation in many places, and … 29 $2.90 Add
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Completing the Vision:

Completing the Vision:

Prevention and Community Health Centres

From: Medicare

Analyzes that the second stage of medicare needs to be about prevention and community health centres 6 $0.60 Add
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Concave Man

Concave Man

From: About Face

The readings in the third section of the book discuss food related mental illnesses including body dysmorphia and eating disorders. The readings in this section include firsthand accounts from … 9 $0.90 Add
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Connections Between Nature and Healing

Connections Between Nature and Healing

From: Field Excercises

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. This reading explores the ways … 25 $2.50 Add
Country of Poxes
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Country of Poxes

Three Germs and the Taking of Territory

Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a … 208 View
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COVID-19 and the Social Determinants of Health
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COVID-19 and the Social Determinants of Health

From: About Canada: Health and Illness

Chapter Seven considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the social determinants of health in Canada, highlighting how the pandemic exacerbated existing health inequities and … 18 $1.80 Add
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COVID-19, Trade, and Corporate Power

COVID-19, Trade, and Corporate Power

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This chapter demonstrates that the international trade framework systematically reduces national sovereignty and democracy, disempowers governments that seek to enact policies to protect people … 12 $1.20 Add