When the topic of Canada comes up among peoples‚ immediately the thought of ice hockey‚ the Mounted Police‚ and beavers comes to mind. In fact‚ Canada has truly lost its true identity that we once knew. It is slowly being assimilated and in fact “Americanized” in aspects of social identity‚ national identity‚ and cultural identity. First‚ Canada is being slowly “Americanized” in its social identity. When we talk about a country’s social identity‚ we examine a few
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Our Home and Racist Land-Pg.73 3. Do you think Canada is still a racist country? Why or why not? Explain using examples to support your opinion. Being one of the most socially developed and multicultural countries in the world everyone probably sees Canada as a Utopian country. Unfortunately Canada isn’t as perfect as everyone thinks it is‚ and a major persisting issue is racism. Being a multicultural there are many minorities and this usually results in racism‚ isolation‚ and unequal treatment
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society over a long period of time. Yet in Canada‚ the obvious push to assimilation had been the introduction of the White Paper‚ which had been negatively received. However‚ while Canada is still on the verge of negotiating self-governance and self-determination‚ the United States lacks such opportunity due to the amount of policies that have been enacted. Another difference in the United States system is the fact that while the First Nations peoples in Canada had the opportunity to represent themselves
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Does Canada still have the same connection with the Queen as we used to? The Queen is irrelevant today. Change like this is in the future. Nothing stays the same forever. However the role of the monarchy in Canadian history cannot be denied. The same could be said of the Nazis; or the Mohawks and Laura Secord. However the Monarchy offers dimension to our history. Canada continues to need as many historically based structures as possible to distinguish the country from its burgeoning‚ warmongering
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more than the name of our province. The word means ‘our land’ in Inuktitut‚ and it is a reflection of Canada‚ from its distinctive culture and way of life‚ to its vast and beautiful expansiveness. Its greatest assets are the welcoming communities that have banded together to conquer the simultaneously awe-inspiring and often harsh northern landscape. Nunavut is the youngest territory in Canada‚ becoming recognized through the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act in 1999‚ yet its
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Poverty in Canada Sociology 1000: Writing Assignment 11/26/2012 Cassandra Vincent How can there be so many people in poverty? It is all around us even though Canada has made the G20 Richest Nations; they still have one of the highest poverty rates for in the industrialized world. Through reading many articles such as Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell’s “Poverty in Canada”‚ others that I have found online‚ and my own personal experience I have learned the numerous reasons why so many people in
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Book Report In the book entitled Canada‚ NATO and The Bomb: The Western Alliance in Crisis by Tom Keating and Larry Pratt the main issue discussed was Canada’s position in Europe‚ North America and their view on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It went into specific issues dealing with political tension within Canada and tension outside Canada with other countries. It went through the years of different political parties and how they dealt with the matters of NATO. It states Canada’s
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of household and universal governmental issues the world over. In this article‚ we’ll investigate a rundown of movement to Canada‚ and attempt to see if or not there exists a net benefit to the Canadian economy which is encouraged by migrant labour and other such economic boons provided by this kind of influx. (Pat 2014). Most attention has been paid
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Arthur Manuel’s Unsettling Canada‚ A National Wake Up Call is absolutely inspiring and a must read for all Canadians as they go through the discoveries of colonization policies‚ legislations and unfair treatment of Indigenous land and peoples. This book completely resonated with me as I feel the necessity to settle Indigenous title and rights has been long overdue and the imperative requirement for all to live lightly on the land. Unsettling Canada has substantial value as a pertinent text worth
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Canada as a nation-state traces its evolution from the dispossession‚ racism‚ genocide and displacement of Indigenous peoples‚ lands and territories by European settlers and colonialists‚ mainly coming from Britain and France during the 15th century onwards. In a global context‚ settler-colonialism in present-day Canada was similar to the European conquest and colonial practices all over the world as there was a general trend and attempts of annihilating the Indigenous population. This overall impacted
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