The largest areas of culturally diverse societies consist within the 5 major metropolitan cites of Canada which are‚ Toronto‚ Montreal‚ Vancouver‚ Edmonton‚ and Calgary (Mercer‚ 1995‚ 174). Most crimes occur in these large metropolitan cities‚ where many cultures are mixed within the large communities. As a result of many of the large Canadian cities being home to a majority group of people from a distinct array of ethnic identities‚ patterns of crime are often quite similar. For example‚ statistics
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Colonization There is an affective colonialism on aboriginal women in Canada. The histories of colonization have forced aboriginal women out of their community and family support. The violence of cultural assault or physical brutality of residential schools. It is essential to make efforts towards ending of violence against aboriginal women in Canada. The aboriginal people have grown up in poverty. Many aboriginal women run in to racism and they may shut out of labor markets. Aboriginal women turn
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Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Canada Name Institution Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Canada Question #1 The chief aim of this paper is to contrast and compare anti-Semitism in Canada – predominantly modern Canada – with different forms of racism. For instance‚ the most popular practice of anti-Semitism in Canada is Zionism and nationalism. Most considerations of anti-Semitism in Canada and of the Jewish community more usually‚ have taken place separately from typical
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Canada-India Relations * Fact Sheet: HTML Version | PDF Version * (129 KB) In India‚ Canada is represented by the High Commission of Canada in New Delhi. Canada also has two consulate generals in Chandigarh and Mumbai‚ a consulate in Chennai and trade offices in Ahmedabad‚ Bangalore‚ Hyderabad‚ and Kolkata. India is represented in Canada by a High Commission in Ottawa‚ and by consulates in Toronto and Vancouver. Canada and India have longstanding bilateral relations‚ built upon shared traditions
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The issue of electoral reform has become more important than ever in Canada in recent years as the general public has come to realize that our current first-past-the-post‚ winner-take-all system‚ formally known as single-member plurality (SMP) has produced majority governments of questionable legitimacy. Of the major democracies in the world‚ Canada‚ the United States‚ and the United Kingdom are the only countries that still have SMP systems in place. Interestingly enough‚ there has been enormous
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The government of Canada construction of migrant workers as persons who come to countries like Canada and pays them to do the “dirty work” that no Canadian citizen wants to do. Velasco (2013) points out that the Canadian government have constructed migrant workers to be cheap‚ docile and exportable labour and because of this constructed of migrant workers‚ many countries like Canada go for cheap labour. Velasco (2013) explains that the Canadian government have use their immigration policies to get
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completely unregulated and prescribed freely by physicians for a wide variety of ailments. Canada’s Drug of Choice: Marijuana Contrary to popular belief the rate of illicit drug use is actually on the decline. The most commonly used drug in Canada is Marijuana. According to the 2004 Canadian Addiction Survey‚ 44.5% of Canadians surveyed said that that used pot at least once in their lifetime.14.1% reported that they have used marijuana in the past twelve months. Those individuals that have
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Canadians are the people who are identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential‚ legal‚ historical‚ and/or cultural. Canadian Government policies – such as publicly funded health care; Every canadians are having their own care card‚ they dont need to worry about spend lots of their saving money on their health. Their health care are covered by the taxes. That is why Canadians are need to pay higher and more progressive taxation. Canadian government
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organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests. These rights include working conditions‚ better wages‚ and security in the workforce. In the beginning‚ most unions were developed in manufacturing and resource companies such as steel mills‚ textile factories and mines. Eventually‚ however‚ unions began to expand into
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The whole world was affected tremendously by the great depression‚ but Canada was one of the hardest hit nations. Exports being a large part of Canada’s income‚ it was because of the damage done to world trade that Canada suffered so greatly. At the height of the depression‚ in 1933‚ 30% of the labour force was unemployed and 20% of all Canadians were dependent on government relief for survival. Did the government do enough to fix this? Most people certainly didn’t think so. The relief that the government
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