Published June, 2022
By Stephen Gowans
Publisher: Baraka Books
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Investigates why, when all the tools to avert a catastrophe were available, the world failed to prevent the Covid-19 disaster. Examining the business opportunities and pressures that helped shape the world's failed response, Stephen Gowans concludes that the novel coronavirus had a helper in bringing about the calamity: capitalism.

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Published October, 2020
By Arielle Aaronson and Maria De Koninck
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Surrogacy is growing rapidly even though no informed debate on the social impacts of its normalization has been conducted. By examining the "surrogacy process" and all its implications, Maria De Koninck reaches the conclusion that the best way forward is an international ban on surrogacy.

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Published October, 2020
By Aleshia Jensen and Sadia Messaili
Publisher: Baraka Books
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For Sadia Messaili, the suicide of her son, who emigrated to Canada with his family at the age of 12, is the starting point in this moving and challenging quest for truth about our failing mental-health system, justice, and above all better ways to rekindle hope for people suffering mental illness and for their families.

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Published April, 2020
By Susan Paton
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Diagnosed with incurable cancer in 2009 with a maximum six-year life expectancy, the author chronicles her journey through traditional and alternative treatments to complete remission. Without rejecting traditional treatment (i.e., chemo or radio therapies), she refused to be an object to be treated by others.

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Published November, 2015
By Dominque Cote and Marie-France Raynauilt
Publisher: Baraka Books
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Scandinavian countries are often cited as models for their egalitarian social and health policies but are also known to have thriving economies where the gap dividing rich from poor is smaller than elsewhere. Policies discussed in Scandinavian Common Sense include education, housing, conciliation of work and family life, daycare, sustainable development and more.

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