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From ![]() Canadian Experiments with Basic Income |
This chapter provides brief overviews of limited-scale experiments with basic income across Canada, how they were implemented and their results. | Evelyn L. Forget | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability DebateFrom: 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 … | Diana Gibson | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care PolicyFrom: 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 … | Colleen Flood | 45 | 2007 | $4.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 18Social Media |
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 … | Alex Wood | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Childhood Trauma and the Science of AddictionFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1998, Dr. Gabor Mate placed a lucrative career on hold and joined hands with Liz Evans, treating addicts in the Downtown Eastside. Mate’s eight years with the Portland Hotel meant … | Travis Lupick | 26 | 2017 | $0.52 Add |
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From ![]() Cigarettes |
Chapter Four includes the following topics: History – Filters/Light Cigarettes, Menthol, Other Additives/Flavours/Toxins – Health Risks – Secondhand/Passive Smoke – Third- … | James G. Wigmore | 159 | 2023 | $15.90 Add |
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From ![]() Closing the Gap |
In this chapter, the editors of the volume explore ways in which “gaps” are being addressed in the field of dementia care. | Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger | 38 | 2021 | $3.80 Add |
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From ![]() 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 … | Michael Rachlis | 29 | 2007 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() 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 | France Gélinas | 6 | 2007 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Concave ManFrom: 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 … | Andrew Dreschler | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Connections Between Nature and HealingFrom: 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 … | Stephanie Westlund | 25 | 2014 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() ConsequencesFrom: Fighting For Space |
The aftermath of opening Insite. | Travis Lupick | 17 | 2017 | $0.17 Add |
![]() NEW! Country of PoxesThree 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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From ![]() Court BattleFrom: Fighting For Space |
For four years, the Conservative administration had made it increasingly difficult for Insite to obtain annual exemptions from drug laws that it requires to operate. By 2007, it was clear that … | Travis Lupick | 24 | 2017 | $0.48 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! COVID-19 and the Social Determinants of Health |
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 … | Dennis Raphael | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() COVID-19, Trade, and Corporate PowerFrom: 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 … | Sujata Dey | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |














