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  Canada and NATO

  The Myth of a Global Peacekeeper

  Owen Schalk

  In this book, Schalk disrupts the popular Western perception of NATO as a defensive, collective security organization, and argues that Canadians should oppose it and support their government’s withdrawal from it for the following reasons: NATO has always been an offensive alliance; the wars it wages are not just; its existence and expansion stir global tensions and raise the risk of global war; it undermines Canadian sovereignty; and it diverts resources that can serve the social needs of Canadians into a largely U.S.-owned arms industry.

  (Arbeiter Ring Publishing Ltd., $24.00 Paperback, 140 pages, ISBN: 978-19-97544-07-4)  

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  Real Grownup

  Elizabeth Bachinsky

  Now a parent herself, the speaker of these crystal-clear poems juxtaposes her mother’s stories of her birth and childhood with stories of birthing and raising her own daughter, daring to hope for an easier time, as she looks back on her wild youth, losses, and hard-won recovery with humour and love.

  (Nightwood Editions, $19.95 Paperback, 96 pages, ISBN: 978-08-89714-96-0)  

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