Canada and the Twenties CP HW p.48-73 1) The tensions that underlined the Winnipeg General Strike began when all the soldiers came home from Europe and didn’t have a job anymore; this put a lot of women out of their jobs. The pay had also been reduced during the war‚ which made workers demand for a higher wage from their employer. On top of this many if not all of the war material factories were going out of business. Economic hardship and unfairness erupted into a strike that made Canadian history
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Shuo Zhang Rose Caruso EAP500 October 01‚ 2012 Writing Assignment 1 Newcomers in Canadian Job Market Nearly quarter million immigrations landed in Canada every year‚ most of those newcomers find that it is difficult to make a new life in Canada. High educated immigrants have lower employment rate is a widespread phenomenon in Canada. According to the “Educated new immigrants struggle to find work” in ProQuest‚ the article shows that newcomers are hardly to find jobs in their field‚ even
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Aboriginal women in Western Canada have been faced with challenges and adversity in many aspects of their everyday lives. It is important to identify and analyze some of the reasons why there are a high proportion of Aboriginal women involved in the sex trade in Western Canada. This analysis is to further demonstrate the state and society’s implications and effects on the lives of these women‚ and how they have shaped the world that sex trade workers in Canada are forced to live in day in and day
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general apathy. Not many people think of Canada as a country that can hold its own when in a conflict with those of similar economic conditions such as Russia‚ America or even France. However‚ historically and statistically‚ Canada has been an extremely strong military power‚ but only when the need arose. From the “stormtroopers” of Canadian raiding parties at Vimy Ridge to the sophisticated liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands in World War Two‚ Canada proved its extraordinary war efforts. The
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Canada is more of an individualist society than a collectivist society. Within our society we believe the individual is responsible for themselves and their self-interest. These set of principles within society are focused on the individual‚ which many of our values are to benefit the individual. Such as the Rule of Law and the Individual Rights and Freedoms‚ this makes it so everyone is entitled to basic human rights and everyone is equal under the law. In our individualistic society we also believe
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When I was only three years old‚ my family made the long 18-hour airplane trek from General Pico‚ La Pampa‚ Argentina to Saskatoon‚ Saskatchewan‚ Canada. I lived in Saskatoon from the age of three to the age of thirteen. This transition was a culture and language shock for my family and I. We were moving to a new country with a different language‚ different infrastructure‚ different cultures‚ and different demographics. Demographically‚ General Pico‚ the city I was born in‚ has a population of
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Canada’s Role in the World From 1945-2000 Canada has played a very significant and valuable role in the world since 1945 and this vital role has continued to this very day. Canada is continually being viewed as a peacekeeping and peacemaking nation because of its efforts and contributions in organizations such as the UN‚ NATO and NORAD. These contributions have given Canada a much larger and more influential role on the world stage. Since 1945‚ Canada has been able to find a comfortable role in
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For thousands of years Canada was occupied by a mixture of mongoloid peoples in different development stages between Late Paleolithic to Late Neolithic who had arrived thousands of years ago from Asia. The first contact with Europeans was when viking settlers tried to establish a logging settlement in Newfoundland. The vikings left for unknown reasons‚ possibly because the natives were hostile to viking presence. In the 15th century European explorers began to come to Canada and major French and English
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the French in Canada By: Kimia Canada‚ the 3.885 million square mile country located directly north of the United States‚ is the second largest country in the world. It has an extremely diversified population of 35.16 million people‚ and among this population are French Canadians. There is a lasting influence of French culture‚ religion‚ language‚ and more in Canada. This is due to the fact that it was once French territory; French Canadians currently residing in Canada are descendants
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International Relations Between Britain and Canada Canada has always had strong relations with Britain; starting as one of Britain’s colonies and later becoming an independent nation. The 19th century brought many changes to Canada; as a new independent nation so closely related to Britain‚ Canada began to step out from under her founder’s shadow and be seen apart from Britain. The United States became Canada’s largest trading partner in the early 19th century‚ a close reliable neighbour
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