Youth gangs in Canada is becoming more and more of issue. Adolescents across Canada resort to joining youth gangs for many different reasons. A youth gang is a group of young adolescents who use intimidation and violence to gain prestige among other gangs and control certain areas of unlawful activities. For all the reasons an adolescent would join a youth gang‚ police and the Government have come up with programs to prevent youth from joining and to get them to leave the gangs. With programs involving
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In 2017‚ Canada announced their plan to fill a 300‚000 quota number of incoming immigrants. That is a large number and appears like Canada is showing such openness for incoming immigrants. But this innocuous sentence can be problematic. It can be difficult to gage the problems of Canadian perception of immigration when one’s family arrived in the country several generations ago and now identify as a native Canadian. The word “quota” is problematic in describing immigration for its inferred meaning
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The approach to building food security is greatly influenced by where you live. Food insecurities in non-urban regions of Canada is a major challenge. The native origin population comprises 3/4th of the total population in non-urban region. The non- urban food sources comprise of 1) Country sourced 2) External sourced. The country sourced food have scanty availability. 23 It is of a particular problem for those individuals living in Non-urban areas. 23 The accessibility to country food become a problem
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Infertility is a growing women’s health issue in Canada. In 1984 5.4% of Canadian couples reported fertility problems‚ by 2010 that number had increased to 16% (Bushnik‚ Cook‚ Yuzpe‚ Tough‚ & Collins‚ 2012). Today infertility is defined using the biomedical definition which classifies infertility as “a disease of the reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.” (World Health Organization‚ 2017). In
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statistically shown that more than 50% of the time‚ drivers take their eyes off the road‚ resulting in 80% of collisions and 65% of near crash situations as a form of inattention (Owran‚ 2016). Distracted driving has also had a major economic loss on Canada. At least $10 billion annually is spent on health care costs and lost productivity due to distracted driving (CAA‚ Statistics‚ 2012). However‚ finding a resolution for distracted driving is remotely difficult for Canada’s provincial and territorial
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One of the many things that Canadian parents expect to be able to do is pass their citizenship onto their children and as a result their grandchildren as well. As of April 17th‚ 2009 under the law of Bill C-24 if Canadian parents are living abroad and they give birth to a child that child will be considered a Canadian citizen as well‚ however‚ if that child decides to follow in their parent’s footsteps and live abroad and have a child that child may not be considered a Canadian. In 2011 Jennifer
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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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Responsible government is to Canada what apple pie and exceptionalism must be to the United States: the identity of the nation is built into its ideal‚ but probe deeper than the crust and the whole façade crumbles. Convoluted metaphors aside‚ this section will substantively address how responsible government and Parliamentary democracy – as Canadian tenets‚ of course‚ but ones borne from the UK – are unable to provide a singular objective definition of modern committees. Contrary to public mythologies
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would be like to live on the beautiful island of Newfoundland and Labrador? This breathtaking province is located on the eastern edge of North America and is the youngest province to join Confederation in 1949 (Summers‚ 2010) to become a part of Canada. There are many attributes that make up this province. Physical‚ economical and human diversity play a large role in the makeup of this province. These various characteristics differentiate Newfoundland and Labrador from the other Canadian provinces
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Holocaust is obtained from the Greek words “completely burnt.” This topic may seem as if it does not relate to Canada in any sense‚ but the reality is that it does! We as Canadians could have played a role in saving the lives of millions of people but instead we became one of the reason that some of these people were killed in the first place. Yes‚ it is true that Hitler gave the U.S‚ Britain‚ Canada and many other nations the chance to take in Jewish refugees and essentially save their lives‚ but we did
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