Introduction Marijuana is currently a hot topic of debate throughout Canada‚ and has been for the past few years. Marijuana was first banned in 1923 under the Opium and Drug Act‚ but since 1997 the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act have controlled it. In 2000‚ over 30‚000 Canadians were charged with possession of marijuana. Currently‚ the marijuana laws are not enforced equally across the country‚ which has prompted the interest in changing the laws or possibly decriminalizing marijuana.
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Wrongful Convictions in Canada James Doe 153678 (Student Number) Course Name Course Section Dr. Bahareh Assadi (Instructor Name) November 20‚ 2012 2 Wrongful Convictions in Canada One of the most controversial issues existing in the Criminal Justice System is the concept of wrongful convictions. The problem is that occasionally innocent accused persons are convicted of crimes that they have not committed resulting in unfair prison sentences. Criminologists in Canada are exploring the causes
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key to understanding the dynamics of labor markets (see Friedman‚ 1968). Economies with diverse resources‚ different structures of industries and labor forces trigger labor mobility across regions. The diversity of these regional economic activities can be represented by regional unemployment rates and weighted employment growth rates: two measure of local market conditions (LMC). For example‚ seminal work of Blanchard and Katz (1992) investigates the U.S. state-level data and provide an extensive
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Multiculturalism and Racism in Canada: The Great Contradiction Racism in Canada is an undeniable issue as seen through widespread anecdotal evidence‚ acknowledged institutional abuses and countless studies. Recently‚ within the media and politics‚ focus was placed on the issue of the niqab during the federal election‚ when the Conservative government attempted to rally voters behind restrictive policies for face coverings in citizenship ceremonies that defied previously court rulings pertaining
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Canada has relative advantage of experiences in conducting elections‚ ensuring peace‚ policy making and integrating gender equality‚ managing civil and common law codes‚ preventing conflicts‚ etc. Outputs of Global Economic Governance Program require western countries to prioritize the import of other country expertise with the aim to complement its own expertise and not for substituting the same. Traditionally Canada has been working towards getting freedom to make decision and ensuring international
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one of the most significant developments in the protection of human rights in Canada was signed and entrenched in the Canadian Constitution under the leadership of then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Coming into force on April 17‚ 1982‚ the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the most visible and recognized part of the Canadian Constitution and is intended to protect certain political and civil rights of people in Canada from the policies and actions of all levels of government. Since its enactment
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cabinet members expressing similar points of view‚ the provincial government quickly thought to prohibit any further immigration of Japanese. However‚ because of Japan’s military ties with Britain‚ and because Canada was a British subject at that time‚ completely banning Japanese immigration to Canada based on race was not favourable as it would “embarrass Britain” and its ties with Japan (Roy 2003: 83; Roy et al. 1990:
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Canada is known as a liberal-learning‚ forward-looking nation all over the world and its unstoppable promotion of gender equality is renowned in all parts of the world; however‚ the Canadian prostitution laws fails to show these Canadian distinctions as the laws show an antiquated view of the issue of prostitution. Prostitution has long been called “the world’s oldest profession.”(“Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia” http://en.wikipedia.org/) For as long as two thousands year ago‚ evidence can be found
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The development of the theory of plate tectonics from Continental Drift to the present The theory of continental drift first came to be in 1915 when Alfred Wegener first proposed his belief that 300 billion years ago there was one single supercontinent‚ Pangaea. At the time‚ most did not believe it was true as he had no proof or idea of how the masses of land would move. However‚ new evidence was put forward over time that fit with Wegener’s beliefs. The first key piece of evidence is the shape
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In Canada‚ there is a catastrophic history that accompanies the Aboriginal populations‚ suffering through colonialism and decades of forced assimilation into the larger Canadian society‚ and this history has‚ in turn‚ had devastating psychological and social consequences. There was a replacement of values and beliefs in society by Euro-Canadians‚ through ways such as the residential school system in order to assimilate children into mainstream society at the time (Switlo‚ 2002‚ pg. 103). Within the
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