In Canada‚ the term Indigenous peoples (or Aboriginal peoples) refer to First Nations‚ Métis and Inuit. Aboriginal people are the original inhabitants of the land that is now Canada. In 2011‚ there were more than 1.8 million Aboriginal people living in communities throughout the country. Their history significantly predates the arrival of European settlers. Though severely threatened and in certain cases extinguished by colonial forces‚ Aboriginal culture‚ language and social systems have shaped
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Canada’s most defining moments Canada is a one of the wealthiest countries in the world but Canada didn’t just become wealthy overnight. Canada has many accomplishments and failures but the most defining moments in Canadian history were both the failures and accomplishments in the economy or economy related. The three most defining moments in Canadian history were; the stock market crash‚ which led to the “Great Depression”‚ the baby boom on the other hand led to increases in jobs during the 1960’s
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The Missing Link: Operations Improvements Enhance Portfolio Performance No. 1 in a Series Chandresh Iyer Head of Global Custody and Investment Services Citi Chito Jovellanos President & CEO forward look‚ inc. The coming decade will be a difficult one for institutional asset management. A vastly more crowded market for investment and trading ideas‚ more constraints on leverage‚ demands for greater transparency‚ changing compliance rules and more risk-averse investors will ensure
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Geoffrey Canada wrote in his book Reaching up for Manhood‚ "The image of male as strong is mixed with the image of male as violent. Male as virile gets mixed with male as promiscuous. Males as intelligent often gets mixed with male as arrogant‚ racist‚ and sexist." In this way many people define the masculinity and try to conform boys in these stereotypes which negative influence on boy’s development and behaviors. This image of masculinity started in antiquity and is still predominate in our days
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the custom is seen as protection for young girls from premarital sex”. (Keilburger‚ 2013: 1) Adding on‚ developed nations across the world including Canada do not allow for such treatment to be performed on women as it is believed here to be inhumane and child abuse (Keilburger‚ 2013). Despite scarce records of such mutilation to occur to Canadian women in secrecy‚ there are laws preventing physicians‚ doctors and
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both negatives and benefits but it should be banned from Canada as the negatives of smoking are far greater than the benefits. Smoking should be banned because of its
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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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Similar to the situation in the United States‚ Canada has increasingly had a mass incarceration and overrepresentation issue with primarily the minority groups. The “failure” of the Canadian criminal justice system toward the Aboriginal people are the most evident through the overrepresentation of Aboriginal individuals in provincial and federal prisons. In 2013-2014 Aboriginal adults accounted for one in four admissions to provincial/territorial prisons‚ while only representing 3% of the Canadian
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Introduction It is essential to understand that people‚ both men and women‚ do actively and willingly engage in sex work; the reality is‚ it is not going away. It is my opinion‚ and indeed the opinion of the Government of Canada‚ that some forms of sex work should be legalized. Harm The state‚ through legislative decree‚ ought not to be able to limit or prohibit the activities of an individual or individuals who are willing to actively or passively participate in the sex work. Such limitations
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witnessed of the harm one man did to a community. However‚ not every plural marriage family that continues to practice polygamy is like Jeff’s community. When it comes to looking into the legalities behind polygamy‚ in Canada according to “Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada explicitly bans polygamy and threatens offenders with a five-year prison term” (CBC News). The worry of being thrown in jail for five years have caused many Canadian polygamist families to go into hiding from the government
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