Book Review
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Rob Wallace's book highlights COVID-19 as a disease of capitalism
Raluca Bejan | "Dead Epidemiologists" argues that we need to be less concerned with whether Wuhan's wet market was the origin of COVID-19 and instead focus our attention on the structural causes of disease.
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'In Your Face' uncovers hypocrisy surrounding the niqab
Monia Mazigh | In her book, Natasha Bakht delves into the lived experiences of Muslim women who wear the niqab and documents the discrimination they face in Canada's legal and political systems.
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Rediscovering our place in nature
David Suzuki | An economy was once created to serve people and their communities. Today economic rationalists contend that people must sacrifice and give up social services for the economy.
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'Reclaiming Hamilton': Civic engagement and local activism in Steeltown
Karen Burson | Paul Weinberg's collection of essays features writing by some of Hamilton's most engaged, passionate, and articulate citizens.
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CERB showed us that basic income could work in Canada
Evelyn L. Forget | The Canada Emergency Response Benefit was not a basic income, but it demonstrated that such a program is possible right now.
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Hope is a 'powerful political act' for environmental activists facing despair
Lauren Scott | "Hope Matters" author Elin Kelsey questions the singular doom-and-gloom narrative, arguing that "evidence-based hope" can help advocates find solutions and push harder for climate justice.
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Concrete is everywhere. It's also terrible for the planet
Daniel Aureliano Newman | A new book captures the wonders of concrete but equivocates on the damage it does to the environment.
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'Take Back the Fight' should be mandatory reading for young feminists in Canada
Rayne Fisher-Quann | "Take Back the Fight" is a manifesto, a scathing criticism of the status quo, and a call to action for the next generation of feminists all in one.
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In 2015, half a million refugees fled Turkey for Lesvos. A century ago, my family did the same
Steven Heighton | In 2015, Heighton travelled to Lesvos to assist Syrian refugees who had crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey -- the same crossing made by his mother's people after the Greco-Turkish War ended in 1922.
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Catherine Hernandez is 'not here for nuance' at this critical time in history
Alexandra Valahu | Although the world Hernandez builds in her new novel "Crosshairs" has been described as sci-fi and dystopian, it looks a lot like the one we live in right now.
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'Enemy Alien': A graphic novel about life inside an internment camp
Navjeet Sidhu | An absorbing and revealing look at the brutal conditions inside one of Canada's wartime internment camps, where thousands were imprisoned during the First World War.
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Liberal restraints won't fix surveillance capitalism
Cristina D'Amico | Ronald Deibert's "Reset" presents a chilling portrait of our current communications infrastructure, but his solution misses the mark.