premiums by getting Wal-Mart to contribute more. For labor‚ it is an enduring embarrassment not to have a presence at a company that is widely viewed as the epitome of American business success. Many labor leaders see this organizing effort as a test case of whether unions can succeed in the 21st century. Wal-Mart officials‚ like many companies‚ have strategies to keep out unions as a way of holding down costs. But labor leaders assert that Wal-Mart often crosses the line and violates federal laws
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I believe that Canada prides themselves on being a very equal country for the most part‚ equality is “the state of being equal “(Collins English Dictionary‚ 2015) no matter what race or gender you are. As much as Canada prizes itself of this equality I don’t believe it is present in Canada’s education system. If you look at schools in Canada‚ it is easy to see that they change dramatically from facility to facility. Poor or not as developed towns/cities seem to not have as many resources available
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Voyage of the Beagle‚ “If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions‚ great is our sin” (Charles). Poverty is not an inherited trait‚ but is a consequence of societal laws‚ practices and customs. First Nations in Canada have been put into a position of poverty and the Canadian government is largely to blame. The First Nations have been disconnected from their traditional way of living in part because the Ministry responsible for helping them has not supported their
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more than the name of our province. The word means ‘our land’ in Inuktitut‚ and it is a reflection of Canada‚ from its distinctive culture and way of life‚ to its vast and beautiful expansiveness. Its greatest assets are the welcoming communities that have banded together to conquer the simultaneously awe-inspiring and often harsh northern landscape. Nunavut is the youngest territory in Canada‚ becoming recognized through the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act in 1999‚ yet its
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2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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FESTIVALS Canada is a vast and diverse country‚ and its many festivals illustrate the many exciting cultural events that Canada has to offer. Canadian festivals and events attract visitors worldwide.This are some of them. The Calgary stampede The Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo‚ exhibition and festival held every July in Calgary‚ Alberta‚ Canada. The ten-day event‚ which bills itself as "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth"‚ attracts over one million visitors per year and features one of
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a variety of obstacles‚ primarily due to the high product mix‚ which explains why extensive utilization of lean is not reported in the journals for this industrial sector. Most of the reported applications and documentations are discussing lean in cases where there are a few families of high volume products and processes involved. The reports mainly fail to detail the ways waste is removed. The recommendations are far from applicable when thousands of parts in low quantity and several nonlinear processes
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Canada Goose (CG) is a manufacturing company of cold weather clothing; specifically its products are jackets‚ parkas‚ hats and gloves. Their products are high quality manufactures due to use of special materials such as natural skin animals and special insulation also known as aquatic animal down. The price of their products is therefore higher than the industry standard. Thus‚ its main customers are high-income individuals who are willing to pay more for a product considered Premium. The company
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Arthur Manuel’s Unsettling Canada‚ A National Wake Up Call is absolutely inspiring and a must read for all Canadians as they go through the discoveries of colonization policies‚ legislations and unfair treatment of Indigenous land and peoples. This book completely resonated with me as I feel the necessity to settle Indigenous title and rights has been long overdue and the imperative requirement for all to live lightly on the land. Unsettling Canada has substantial value as a pertinent text worth
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Being a descendent of immigrants to canada‚ I have a pretty weird cultural background‚ as it really is a mashup of 3 different cultures. My mother is a Taiwanese‚ my grandmother and grandfather both ran from communist China. My father is Vietnamese‚ he ran from the communist as well. Being born in Canada my biggest influence would be canada. In my collage‚ the middle cluster of pictures is all about my experience as being a canadian‚ it shows my favourite fast food restaurant‚ the sports i watch
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