Canada is a nation of obvious cultural diversity. Over the past two centuries, heavy immigration has made it one of the most multicultural of all industrial nations. These immigrates are among people from Asia, Middle East, and partly from United Kingdom. Given this diversity, many people call C...

Canadian Culture Culture is a broad term that describes customs, traditions, institutions and all other human proceedings together considered as being characteristic of a particular community, people or nation. Things such as media, other neighbouring cultures and time can influence and even chang...

Canada vs America The controversy over Canada and America, and who takes after whom has been around for many years. Canada and America are puzzles, two countries that are home to millions of people, living in relative comfort and health. We both have become nations through the help of each ...

Canada is both a multicultural and multiethnic country where people from diverse parts of the world have chosen to live. With them these immigrants carry their various backgrounds made of many cultures, ethnic origins, values and beliefs. Multiculturalism is a symbol of peaceful integration in and o...

Dear Editor, Imperialism has been used many times throughout history. Some people believe that imperialism has had a positive influence on our world's history. While others believe it is negative. I agree that imperialism has been negative to our world. With most negative situations, ther...

Paying more attention to the differences between boys and girls, or men and women, starts getting people to have many ideas about them. The question remains whether we should ignore them or not. I don't blame the family in the rural Canada for making the girl feel like she's nothing mor...

In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated every year on the second Monday of October. The first Canadian Thanksgiving was celebrated on April 15, 1872, to give thanks for the recovery of future King Edward VII from a serious illness. But the major reason why Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving is that we ...

The Work of Harold Innis Harold Adams Innis has made many significant contributions to Canadian history and culture throughout the course of time. He was a well-respected historian as well as an author, who has very firm beliefs in the evolution of Canada as a nation as we know it. Some of his...

The Irish first arrived in Canada nearly 400 years ago, and to this day they have almost been fully integrated into our Canadian society. Years ago, they tended to move to large American cities, however they also moved to Canada and spread into the Canadian countryside. They have made a significan...

In order for any state to have control and keep order over their respective boundaries the powers of that state must have a form of decision-making structure in place. Through the ages several types of decision-making structures have been used from democratic to authoritarian. One of the oldest typ...

December 17, 1992 The past decades their has been a dramatic increase of women participating in the labour force from countries all over the world including Canada. In 1950, one Canadian worker in five was a woman. By 1980 this percentage had doubled, and women are expected to make up more than 44 p...

The witness of a century Victoria Belcourt was born on 19 November 1861, in the Métis community of Lac Ste Anne, which was located northwest of Edmonton, part of Rupert's Land, was owned and controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company. The area would not become part of Canada ...

Should Canada continue its international role as a "peacekeeper"? Between 1991 and the end of 1996, 24 new peacekeeping missions were set up under the UN's flag- six more than the total established during the preceding 43 years. At the peak of UN activity in the mid-1990s, ...