Health Care
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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 ![]() Crossing a LineFrom: Fighting For Space |
In early 2012, the regional health authority that funded Insite revealed it would soon cut funding for the Rainier Hotel, a housing project that benefited from on-site treatment programs for its … | Travis Lupick | 27 | 2017 | $0.54 Add |
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From ![]() Dissolving, Dividing, DistressingExamining Cutbacks to Programs Responding to Sexual Violation From: Care and Consequences |
Si Transken | 27 | 2000 | $2.97 Add | |
![]() Doctors in DenialWhy Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort |
Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of … | 344 | View | ||
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From ![]() Drug Users with a LawyerFrom: Fighting For Space |
John Richardson was a young lawyer facing an existential crisis. He found solace in Downtown Eastside, having been deeply moved by the dilapidated condition of drug users. He became a … | Travis Lupick | 21 | 2017 | $0.42 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! DrugsRegulatory Capture and the Disabling of Drug Safety at Health Canada From: Corporate Rules |
In this chapter, Michèle Brill-Edwards provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the Canadian government has quietly disabled the safety system for drugs in Canada. The Food and Drugs Act … | Michèle Brill-Edwards | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() Early Child Development, Food Security and Housing |
Dennis Raphael | 20 | 2016 | $2.00 Add | |
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From ![]() Establishing InsiteFrom: Fighting For Space |
The new Mayor of Vancouver finally gave in to the demands of the Downtown Eastside activists and the groundwork for “Insite” was laid. This chapter talks about the logistics of … | Travis Lupick | 28 | 2017 | $0.56 Add |
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From ![]() Federalism in the Twenty-First Century, 2003–2017 |
Discusses developments in the Canadian federation and relations between Ottawa and the provinces from 2003 to 2017 with focus on health care and environmental concerns. | Ed Whitcomb | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() Forget Reform-We Need a Revolution!Better Health for Canadian Women through Holistic Care From: Care and Consequences |
Farah M. Shroff | 24 | 2000 | $2.64 Add | |
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From ![]() Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2005 |
A majority of the Supreme Court held that a provincial law prohibiting Quebeckers from taking out private insurance for services available under the public health care plan infringed the Quebec … | Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman | 21 | 2017 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() Government, industry and the medical professionménage à trois From: Doctors in Denial |
Describes how the alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry developed in the period from the 1960s to 2015. | Joel Lexchin MD | 27 | 2017 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() HIV Criminalization in CanadaHow the Richest Middle Class in the World Decided to Call the Police on HIV-Positive People in Order to Cover Up Their Racism, Guilt, and Anxiety about Sexuality and Their Supremacy-Based Investment in Punishment From: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
This chapter expands the foundations of Conflict and Abuse through the surprising example of Canadian HIV criminalization, showing how the “moderate” presentation of a neoliberal … | Sarah Schulman | 28 | 2016 | $0.56 Add |
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From ![]() Home Care Before and After ReformA Comparative Analysis of Two Texas-in-Action From: Care and Consequences |
Diana L. Gustafson | 22 | 2000 | $2.42 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Immigration and "Medical Manpower"1968 and the Awkward Introduction of Medicare in Canada From: 1968 in Canada |
The year 1968 witnessed the launch of medicare, a public program so important that 50 years later many Canadians identify universal health insurance as a defining feature of our national … | David Wright and Sasha Mullally | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Income, Education and Work |
Dennis Raphael | 25 | 2016 | $2.50 Add |












