sometimes the complainants have a strong argument‚ and stronger legal rights. In such situations‚ the employer has failed to follow specific employment legislation. Two cases of discrimination were alleged‚ and settled‚ in the human rights tribunals of Nova Scotia and Alberta in 2009 and 2013 respectively. Both complainants allege‚ in some way‚ discrimination that violates the Human Rights Act of their province. The complainant in the first case
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Growing up in Canada I always felt that I could rely on the government to do their jobs‚ and to do their jobs well. My family instilled in me that it’s important to keep up to date with politics and to be aware of the world around me. Due to this type of upbringing‚ I’ve tried my best to stay in the loop when it comes to politics. As I’ve grown up I’ve developed a few expectations of the government of Canada. These expectations include providing free and proper health care to all Canadians‚ to uphold
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In Black Like Who?‚ Rinaldo Walcott addresses the erasure of the Black body in national historical narratives to the extent that “many people continue to believe that any black presence in Canada is a recent and urban one spawned by black Caribbean‚ and now continental African‚ migration (43).” As a matter of fact‚ as exemplified by Myriam Chancy‚ Canada is widely considered as a harbor‚ as a place of tolerance and diversity for people seeking refuge “differentiating it from the United States and
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4. Describe the events that led to the Deportation of the Acadians. Who were the key players? How was the deportation carried out? What impact did this have on the First Nations and their ability to resist the British take-over? During the War of Austrian Succession‚ France had many successes‚ however the British army was able to defeat the French during their expedition for Fort Beausejour (Conrad & Finkel‚ 2009). The Acadians that were captured during the Beausejour raid claimed that they had
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Verrazzano investigated the shoreline of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland‚ including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay. He was nearly followed in 1534 by Jacques Cartier who investigated the drift from the Cape Fear River to Nova Scotia. Jacques Cartier went to the Gulf of St.
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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers You have a certain amount of freedom in deciding where to place yourmodifiers in a sentence: We rowed the boat vigorously. We vigorously rowed the boat. Vigorously we rowed the boat. However‚ you must be careful to avoid misplaced modifiers -- modifiers that are positioned so that they appear to modify the wrong thing. In fact‚ you can improve your writing quite a bit by paying attention to basic problems like misplaced modifiers and dangling modifiers. Misplaced
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seaboard of Canada in 1604. -Tensions arose between the French and British settlers of Acadia‚ who came after the French. -Great Britain gained control of Acadia in 1713 and named in Nova Scotia (“New Scotland” in Latin). -The British expelled the thousands of defendants of the original Acadians from Nova Scotia‚ and many of them eventually settled in southern Louisiana‚ the Mississippi Delta region‚ where their culture continues to thrive today. These settlers are called Cajuns (an alteration
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degree to blame for the mass shooting. In an interview printed by the Nova Scotia Chronicle following the shooting‚ an anonymous Bostonian recounted the events of the aforesaid day. His account of the situation‚ while correct in many senses‚ was aimed to gain public sympathy for the townspeople of Boston. He claims that "the [British] soldiery aimed to draw and provoke the townsmen" in order to "make use of...weapons" (Nova Scotia Chronicle 1). The colonist essentially claims that the Redcoats are
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He returned to Canada in 1604 on Pierre de Mont’s expedition. From 1604-1607‚ he sailed around and charted most of the coast of Nova Scotia (to the Bay of Fundy) and down the coast to Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts)‚ and later to Rhode Island. After a short time in France‚ Champlain returned to Canada and helped found a colony in Port Royal‚ Nova Scotia (1605). In 1608‚ Champlain led 32 colonists to settle Quebec in order to establish it as a fur-trading center. Only nine colonists
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uses light contrast to show diversity with in line-regions. The speaker opens with this form of identity‚ saying “I’m a lobster fisherman in Newfoundland”. While we may not readily relate Nova Scotia to snow‚ it seems there is some experience on the speaker’s part that uses this characteristic to describe Nova Scotia. At least in the case of the Maritimes‚ those descriptions seem accurately made and seem to introduce the idea of diversity even between these prairies. In the second portion of the poem
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