According to Investopedia, poverty is defined as “a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living. Poverty means that the income level from employment is so low that basic human needs can't be met” (2019). Childhood poverty is then a situation in which children lack resources for living. In Canada, childhood poverty continues to be a growing concern as it directly affects health outcomes, educational attainment, and...
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Canada has become very popular among international students who are passionate about staying in the country even after completing their program. Canada is no longer a downgraded place when it comes to acquiring foreign education. International students are open to numerous opportunities in this country and they have a better chance of securing a permanent residence after the completion of their studies. Canada is highly ranked among the top ten places to study and live in the global world, plus,...
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Canada is a great place to live in. Canada's support towards different cultures makes it a multicultural country. Canada's landforms create a perfect life for people. Tundra, grasslands, and mountains are all fun places to drive through while traveling coast to coast. Canada offers many jobs for immigrants that are in need of money. All cities around Canada have different attributes, making them unique. Canada is the best place to live in because of Canada's physical geography, human geography, and...
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The culture of Canada has a lot of elements such as artistic, literary, humor, musical, political, and social that represent Canada and Canadians. Throughout Canada's history, Canada's culture has been influenced by many cultures such as European culture British culture, French culture, and its own baronial culture. Many elements of the cultures of Canada's immigrant countries have been put into Canadian history to make a bigger Canadian culture. Why I chose Canadian culture because I wanted to learn more about...
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The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has highlighted an impending shortage of nurses who have the skills and knowledge to meet the healthcare needs of the Canadian population, a lack, according to the CNA, that has been unequaled in past decades (McDonald, C. and McIntyre, M., 2019, p.317). Economic analysts and political analysts have voiced a lot of views and opinions on the reasons for this issue. From a financial perspective, the shortage is mostly driven more by the supply. McIntyre...
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Canada is the third-largest forested area in the world. The enormous amount of forested land is an obvious explanation as to why large-scale commercial forest harvesting is taking place in Canada and contributes a lot to its economy. However, the deforestation of such a large number of trees has affected the environment in a severe way. If steps are taken to manage forests with a more sustainable approach, then attempts can be made to restore the environment and preserve it....
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The boreal zone, situated within the northern regions of the globe, stretches around 5000 kilometers from Labrador and Newfoundland in the east to Yukon in the west, extending south 1000 kilometers from the edge of the arctic tundra. Estimated to be around 270 million hectares, this boreal region covers more than half of Canada’s land area, sheltering millions of wildlife species. Making up a third of this boreal zone, Canada’s boreal forest is essential for not solely the tradition and...
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The common law system is recognized as an older; as well as proficient technique in quite a few countries helping making the system of law a better one. In Canada, common law is used and based on judges past decisions rather than written law (Department of Justice, 2017). The common law system takes past decisions made by judges and uses them in new situations that are similar to the original event - otherwise known as the term “stare decisis,” which...
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Summary Mr. Mustapha lawsuit against Culligan of Canada Ltd. was the case captured media attention in 2005. According to Mr. Mustapha, when his wife was opening a new bottle of water which they purchased from Culligan of Canada Ltd., she discovered a dead fly floating in it. After that, the couple claimed they had been vomited and Mr. Mustapha developed into an extreme psychiatric reaction characterized by server depression, anxiety and phobia. The mental illness caused him to lose revenue...
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The reforms initiated by the Obama administration are the result of ugly, inflammatory and misleading statements in public forums in the United States over the past year. Along with the complexity of enacting laws, it is possible that the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives can pass the Senate. The resulting 'hybrid' approach to health care reform has produced a conservative strategy that ignores the experience of other wealthy democracies. More importantly, given the possible changes in administrative...
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Imagine you’re a cancer patient in Wisconsin. You’re terminally ill, in the last stages of your lung cancer, in great pain, and the only drugs available to you are highly addictive painkillers. A natural painkiller is illegal in your state, and if you want this drug, you are forced to buy it on the black market where it could be potentially dangerous. Marijuana, a drug that could save you is completely locked away simply because someone- a politician, or a...
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The future of work in Canada will see intensified debates between business and workers, pitting Canada’s growing small business and corporate class against the working class. Even at a time when more Canadians are entrepreneurs, independent contractors, working from home, and working on more favorable, convenient terms, one can still see every day Canadians having difficulty achieving fair wages and fair conditions as the business class does not want to provide benefits, does not want to provide increased wages, and...
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A challenge for Canadian health care is access. Most Canadians have timely access to world-class care for critical emergencies such as stroke, cancer care, and heart problems. However, for less critical problems the wait time can be as long as months or even years. “In Canada, only 38 percent of people report being able to see their primary care provider the same day or next day when they call. France, Australia and the United Kingdom all report 50 percent or...
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Gun Incidents and Laws in the U.S. and Canada During the year 2018, there has been over 47,000 gun incidents in the United States. With such a significant number of deaths resulting from gun use, this has sparked controversy around the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which grants people the right to bear arms and whether it should be upheld. Comparatively, Canada has only endured 208 shootings. It is no surprise that Canadians pride themselves on having more gun control...
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Physician assisted suicide has been an ongoing debate since the early years however, it recently sparked more attention in 2009 when Gloria Taylor, an ALS patient, decided to challenge the Canadian courts’ prohibition. ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a disease affecting motor neurons of the spinal cord, which causes progressive weakness and atrophy of muscles. She was soon joined by Dr. Shoichet, Lee Carter and Hollis Johnson both of whom were fighting for Kay Carter, a woman with spinal stenosis...
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People generalize the idea of poverty that it is just homeless poor people. While this is part of it, the basic description of poverty is; people not having enough money to afford the basic needs to have a good quality of life like food, water, shelter, and clothing. Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to...
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Today, there are many developed countries in the world that still do not accept gay marriages and think it’s inappropriate. In those developed countries, gay/lesbian couples are denied their rights to marry even if they’re a citizen. A couple whom is gay/lesbian also pay their fair share of taxes, follows the law and serves their community well. In Canada, same-sex marriages were legalized in Canada in July of 2005. Accordingly, to census data from Statistics Canada same-sex married couples have...
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Housing remains a prominent issue for immigrants when trying to settle in an area. Vulnerable immigrant groups such as low-income, visible minority groups rely heavily on government and non-government organizations that provide funding and resources for attaining housing. Another major aspect in the process of immigration is the integration into the host community. “Integration refers to the long-term process through which immigrants come to participate fully in their new society” (Hoernig and Zhuang, 2010, 156). Some aspects that hinder the...
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There is no perfect country in this world, each country has its pros and cons. There are many factors that cause people to like a country, whether people like the culture or environment or safety of a country, it all depends on their own opinion. Overall, I believe Canada is the best country to live in, for it has multicultural, has a free health care system and a high-quality education system. To begin with, people can loathe a country because...
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Multicultural does not only refer to the different skin tones we see on an everyday basis, but it is a vision of society, where people with different nationalities, languages, religions and ethnicities can live together. Over the years, Canada's multiculturalism has evolved greater and become a part of their national recognition. In Canada, we have over 250 ethnic origins, and it is a home to 230 different nationalities. Not only is Canada accepting of all but believes we all should...
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Ecotourism is a dynamic and far-reaching sector in the economy of the countries, especially in Canada. Ecotourism in Canada is categorized into two segments, natural ecotourism and ecotourism emphasis on the arts and culture of the local people. It has a positive impact on social and economic aspects of Canada which is evident through its GDP and growth of other related areas. They adopted some principles to make the department run smoothly. However, it also has some disadvantages to the...
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The architectural techniques used to implement the Indian residential school system in Canada is a fundamental but frequently overlooked aspect of the overall system, which isolated “150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children from their communities and families over the duration of a century and a half” (Mortice, 2017). The residential structures were the sites of enforced assimilation, echoed throughout the lands in Canada, but their spaces were not merely a backdrop for the distressed story of the forfeiture of...
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Canadian history has been profoundly shaped by numerous events. In Canadian history it is quite evident we are influenced heavily by the much stronger nations around us. Therefore, our own content in Canada is sometimes overshadowed by other cultures, specifically with regards to the United States who have a big influence on our cultural industries. Canada has experienced a lot of military exploits throughout the 20th century and has also learned valuable lessons in military warfare. In this essay we...
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The article I chose for this essay is about the racism that is happening to Asian people in Canada due to the coronavirus. Amy Go who is the national president of the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice in Toronto, explained that many of her friends and family have experienced xenophobia and racism due to the coronavirus. She spoke about how her friends and family have witnessed racist acts and remarks towards Asian people, from people moving away from...
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There is no arguing that there is and was discrimination towards Aboriginal people and their families in Canadian society. It is a serious social issue. There is no excuse Aboriginals should be treated this way in society. Factors such as: historical barriers, present barriers, racism, victimization and equality are all things that have affected Aboriginals in our society. Canada is one of the richest countries in the world, and yet the original people of this land experience disproportionate rates of...
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Freedom of speech, our right to say what we please without the fear of being censored or persecuted, one of the most essential conditions of any free society. Protected by laws, constitutions, and in Canada by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the freedom of speech is considered an integral concept of modern liberal democracies. As the years have progressed our freedom of speech has seen limitations put on it by bodies of power, using these restrictions for personal gain...
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For many years, this land was known as British North America. Now it is called by one name. Canada. Canada used to be a country with a small population until there was a revolution. It was the Canadian Pacific Railway. One astonishing fact is that the Canadian government gave the CPR company over 25 million dollars and 25 million acres of land to build the railway. It is stated that the Canadian Pacific Railway had a positive impact on Canada’s...
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The rising rate of obesity cost the global economy an estimated $2 trillion expenditure annually. In Canada, one in four obese people spend as high as $7 billion in related health care costs and is expected to increase in $9 billion by 2021. Dr. Arma Sharma states that expenditure in treating obesity will be lessened if the healthcare system focuses on preventing its occurrence rather than curing the conditions that arise from it. Access to treatment of obesity in the...
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Introduction Workplace discrimination is the process in which an individual treats another individual applying to, or in a workplace discriminatorily due to a personal characteristic such as race, sex, religion, or any other characteristic protected under the Fair Work Act (2009). Significance of Workplace Discrimination Workplace discrimination causes detrimental effects on a small scale to the individual, thereby leading to costing the national Australian economy billions of dollars. A 2015 study released by the (American) National Institute of Health revealed...
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Sexism has been an evolving issue globally for decades. More specifically, women’s rights and inequality has been the topic of issue for hundreds of years. Sexism is something that has given women inconfidence and the ability to believe they are lesser than the men in this world. Before in Roman law, women couldn’t own a house without having to give it to their husbands immediate family if he passed away, they had no access to birth control or abortion, and...
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