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Profit is not the cure: a citizen's guide to saving medicare
Par Maude Barlow. 2002
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Canada (romans)Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Santé et médecine, Médecine
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Activist Maude Barlow traces the history of medicare in Canada, which began in 1966. She compares it with both public…
and private systems in other parts of the world, and describes the proponents of privatization in Canada. Barlow argues against the notion that medicare is a luxury that Canadians can no longer afford. 2002.I saw three Chinas: one Canadian's experience in China, 1909-1989
Par Molly Phillips. 1990
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Canada (romans)Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Histoire, Asie (histoire)
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Born in Hong Kong in 1909, the author has witnessed the three modern eras of Chinese history: the final days…
of the Imperial Ching dynasty; the republican rule of Chiang Kai-Shek; and Communist rule since 1949. She describes the people, culture, and history of China as she experienced them. 1990.The sleeping buddha: the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family
Par Hamida Ghafour. 2007
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Canada (romans)Biographies, Littérature (biographies), Familles (biographies), Histoire, Asie (histoire), Guerre
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In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.Red land, Yellow River: a story from the Cultural Revolution
Par Ange Zhang. 2004
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Canada (romans)Biographies, Histoire (biographies), Familles (biographies), Asie (histoire), Politique et gouvernement
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In 1966, Zhang was a teen in Beijing when Mao Zedong began the Cultural Revolution. Though he was the son…
of a "bad guy" (a famous writer), he became swept up in the revolution, until the violence and his father's arrest made him question its goals. In 1968 was sent to a small village to learn how to farm, where he discovered his true calling - art. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2004.