This textbook provides the novice learner with a foundational understanding of Canada’s 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling. It highlights important considerations for future health professionals seeking to adopt the new food guide into their practice, including strategies towards healthy eating. This open textbook underscores a relational inquiry approach to inform discussions with clients about nutrition and healthy eating.

Essential Accessibility for Everyone

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With raised awareness and accessibility laws emerging around the world, understanding what inclusive access to the Web means is becoming necessary knowledge for anyone who produces digital content. Much of the current information on Web accessibility requires some technical understanding, and may be difficult to consume for the average person. The instruction here will “interpret” the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), to make it easier to understand for a general audience. You will have an opportunity to experience barriers firsthand, then experience that content with the barriers removed, developing a practical understanding of web accessibility.

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With raised awareness and accessibility laws emerging around the world, understanding what inclusive access to the Web means is becoming necessary knowledge for anyone who produces digital content. Much of the current information on Web accessibility requires some technical understanding, and may be difficult to consume for the average person. The instruction here will “interpret” the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), to make it easier to understand for a general audience. You will have an opportunity to experience barriers firsthand, then experience that content with the barriers removed, developing a practical understanding of web accessibility.

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The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The novel follows Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is then left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who experiments on animals to create human-like hybrid beings.

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The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The novel follows Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is then left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who experiments on animals to create human-like hybrid beings.

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Jane Eyre (1847) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name Currer Bell. The novel was the first of its kind to use first-person narrative to highlight the protagonist's moral and spiritual development. Often credited for revolutionizing prose fiction, the book is also considered to be ahead of its time for how it explores topics like class, sexuality, religion, and feminism, and for Jane's individualistic character.

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Jane Eyre (1847) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name Currer Bell. The novel was the first of its kind to use first-person narrative to highlight the protagonist’s moral and spiritual development. Often credited for revolutionizing prose fiction, the book is also considered to be ahead of its time for how it explores topics like class, sexuality, religion, and feminism, and for Jane’s individualistic character.

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Jane: A Story of Jamaica (1913) is a novel by Jamaican author H. G. de Lisser and is the first West Indian novel to feature a Black protagonist. The story follows Jane, a young woman raised in the Jamaican countryside, as she prepares to leave home for the first time and move to Kingston to begin her career.

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Jane: A Story of Jamaica (1913) is a novel by Jamaican author H. G. de Lisser and is the first West Indian novel to feature a Black protagonist. The story follows Jane, a young woman raised in the Jamaican countryside, as she prepares to leave home for the first time and move to Kingston to begin her career.

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A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)—full title A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the most Remarkable Occurrences, As well Publick as Private, which happened in London During the last Great Visitation In 1665—is a book by English writer and journalist Daniel Defoe. The novel is an account of one man's experiences during the Great Plague of London, when the bubonic plague struck the city of London in 1665.

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A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)—full title A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the most Remarkable Occurrences, As well Publick as Private, which happened in London During the last Great Visitation In 1665—is a book by English writer and journalist Daniel Defoe. The novel is an account of one man’s experiences during the Great Plague of London, when the bubonic plague struck the city of London in 1665.

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Leviathan (1651)—full title Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—is a book written by English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. The book offers a criticisms regarding the structure of society and legitimate government. It is considered one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.

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Leviathan (1651)—full title Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—is a book written by English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. The book offers a criticisms regarding the structure of society and legitimate government. It is considered one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.

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The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847) is a published memoir by Native American author George Copway. The novel centers on his life and time as a missionary. Not only did the novel make him Canada's first literary celebrity in the United States, but it is also recognized as the first book published by a Canadian First Nations writer.

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The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847) is a published memoir by Native American author George Copway. The novel centers on his life and time as a missionary. Not only did the novel make him Canada’s first literary celebrity in the United States, but it is also recognized as the first book published by a Canadian First Nations writer.

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Little Women—originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869—is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. Loosely based on the lives of Alcott and her sisters, the novel follows the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they journey from childhood to womanhood.

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Little Women—originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869—is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. Loosely based on the lives of Alcott and her sisters, the novel follows the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they journey from childhood to womanhood.

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MEDIAUCRACY: Why Canada hasn't made global hits and how it can is the story of the fiery collision between Canada's national TV policy and the global, online era. Featuring interviews with Hollywood showrunners, award-winning producers, and top policy leaders, it argues for a new goal -- globality -- policy that incentivizes global reach and popular content. Mediaucracy concludes with an original five-step, goal-driven, evidence-based, critical path including POM to COM, G-Score, and PM to AM. Called an "important, timely roadmap to a much-needed policy update," this 21st century tool kit will future-proof Canadian TV policy via the three key words in the TV biz: Audience, audience, audience.

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MEDIAUCRACY: Why Canada hasn’t made global hits and how it can is the untold the story of the collision between Canada’s national TV policy and the global, online era. It argues for a new goal — globality — TV policy that incentivizes global reach and popular content. The book makes it case with interviews with top-tier creators, executives, and policy makers; an authoritative value chain analysis; a review of TV policy around the world; and a comprehensive history of Canadian TV policy, including Canada’s 4 recent federal inquiries on the same issue — the impact of digital disruption. MEDIAUCRACY concludes with an original five-step, goal-driven, evidence-based, critical path including POM to COM, G-Score, and PM to AM. Called an “important, timely roadmap to a much-needed policy update,” this 21st century tool kit will future-proof Canadian TV policy via the three key words in the TV biz: Audience, audience, audience.

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ISBN: 978-1-77417-023-6

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Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)—full titles Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated—is a philosophical treatise by French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. First published in Latin, the book is made up of six meditations written as if Descartes had meditated for six days; each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday." The author rejects all belief in things that are not absolutely certain and then attempts to establish what can be absolutely certain.

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Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)—full titles Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated—is a philosophical treatise by French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. First published in Latin, the book is made up of six meditations written as if Descartes had meditated for six days; each meditation refers to the last one as “yesterday.” The author rejects all belief in things that are not absolutely certain and then attempts to establish what can be absolutely certain.

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A Play

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Written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729, A Modest Proposal—full title A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick—is a satirical essay which mocks the heartless attitudes towards the poor. In order to improve their economic troubles, the essay suggests that the impoverished Irish sell their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies.

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Written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729, A Modest Proposal—full title A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick—is a satirical essay which mocks the heartless attitudes towards the poor. In order to improve their economic troubles, the essay suggests that the impoverished Irish sell their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies.

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Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is a novel by English writer Virginia Woolf. The novel follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–WWI England, as she prepares for a party she will host in the evening, and the ensuing party. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.

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Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is a novel by English writer Virginia Woolf. The novel follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–WWI England, as she prepares for a party she will host in the evening, and the ensuing party. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels.

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The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is a Gothic romance novel by English author Ann Radcliffe. The narrative follows Emily St. Aubert, a young woman who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father, supernatural terrors, and machinations of an Italian brigand.

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The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is a Gothic romance novel by English author Ann Radcliffe. The narrative follows Emily St. Aubert, a young woman who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father, supernatural terrors, and machinations of an Italian brigand.

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