Canada: The Post-industrial Transformation Has Canada become a "post-industrial" Society? In order to answer that question, we must first define just what is a post-industrial society comprised of. For more than two decades sociologists have debated the social and political consequ...

Globalizing and localizing forces at work in the world today are generating a need for a new solution to meet the demands of both. The traditional sovereignty of the nation-state is being corroded by increasing interdependence with other countries and by internal factions struggling for independenc...

Canada's Peace Enforcement, and ignorance to the true definition of Peacekeeping, has destroyed our true intentions of our missions to keep the peace, as we are so reputable of doing. How have are peacekeeping missions given Canada an identity? Has our recent peace enforcement altered this defi...

Many people look back at the twentieth century and feel that Canada did pretty well. Canada was voted best place to live several times and made an international name for itself in peace keeping. These people tend to forget the many problems Canada suffered during the twentieth century. Back in 1...

Canada is currently one of the most prominent host of immigrants in the world. In fact, Canada is the leading country that accepts people from all over the globe. There are approximately 250,000 people immigrating to Canada each year which is about 0.8 percent of Canada's total population. ...

ETHICAL INVESTING Ethical investing is looking at both personal values and social concerns with investment decisions. People who consider themselves, as ethical investors tend to invest their money so they can build a better situation or future. They also earn profits in return. Ethical investments...

After more than sixty years, it seems difficult for most Canadians to comprehend the reasons behind the internment of Japanese-Canadian during World War II. They were innocent Canadian citizens, mostly resided in British-Columbia, many of them even born in Canadian soil, yet they were stripped all t...

Women in the work place The past decades there has been a dramatic increase of women participating in the labor 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 expe...

Introduction The measure of productivity is extremely important in determining growth performance of a country. After two decades of high productivity growth in the 1950's and 1960's, we observed a significant slowdown of productivity growth following the oil crisis in 1973. The debate ...

The question of whether Quebec will secede from Canada to become an independent nation has been a hot topic in the country for several years now. It dates back to the abortive rebellions of 1837-38. In 1980, a referendum to secede was rejected by a 60-40 margin. Since then though, the numbers o...

The Western Canada Concept The Western Canada Concept is a separatist party led by Alberta lawyer Doug Christie. The party is devoted to a peaceful secession of the four Western provinces and the two territories from Canada. By means of four referenda held in each respective western province, the We...

INDEPENDENT STUDY PROJECT CANADIAN POPULATION CHANGE IN SIX CITIES Population Change in Six Canadian Cities Since the first moment that humans arrived in Canada, Canada has undergone many changes and will continue to do so as time g...

Once an organization establishes itself as a profit seeking company, its primary objective is clear: maximize profits and minimize costs. Therefore, among other responsibilities, the president of an organizations duty is to ensure that employees are productive and working to their full potential...

Peacekeeping is more than you really think. When you think of peacekeeping, you think of everyone getting along, with no problems. It is more than that, much more. People die to keep the peace. People spend their lives trying to keep the peace. This entire country tries to keep the peace, but yet it...

Canada\'s healthcare system has been the envy of many western industrialized countries for years. England\'s Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspired it in 1948 when he said: \"The discoveries of healing science must be the inheritance of all [...] Disease must be attacked whether it occurs in the...

Capital Punishment The purpose and aim of criminal law is to protect the public from harm. This is done by inflicting punishment to the delinquent who has already committed the crime, and by threatening with sentence to those who are enticed to harm the public. Over the centuries there have...

Envision the workplace: an environment with no interaction or concern between the employees, no laughter, no jokes, only dull, hectic work. Wouldn't you rather be a part of an office with a friendly environment, where people can have some fun and enjoy their time there? Although 'work' and 'pl...

The encyclopaedia documents certain historical events. The purpose of this documentation is to have a more dispassionate and less jingoistic view of historical events. The hope is that these unbiased views will show people what really happened in the past. This is not what is always achieved. So...

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T h e G r e a t W a r When Britain is at war, Canada is at war,¡± Laurier had said in 1910 (Morton 1, p.130). Canada, being part of the British Empire, was allied with Britain during the Great War. Thus, as soon as Britain declared war on Germany, Canada was automatically involved. Wh...

Immigration, the entrance of people into a country for the purpose of settling there, has always played a central role in Canada's history. It was much a feature of ancient times when the ancestors of Canada's native peoples migrated from Asia by land via Beringia or by sea via the Japane...

Due to the obligation of serving as a new tribal member in third world environments, one would be expected to maintain the standards and beliefs of religion, politics, and family. Dedication to these new beliefs would cause stress and added pressure for one to strive for the satisfaction of the tri...

In a country as vast and as culturally diverse as Canada, many different political opinions can be found stretched across the country. From the affluent neighbourhoods of West Vancouver to the small fishing towns located on the east coast of Newfoundland, political opinions and affiliations range f...

Since the establishment of democracy in Ancient Greece campaigns have cost money. The role money plays in elections has recently become a concern and has opened up much debate about regulatory policy in several democratic countries. In Canada the Canada Elections Act outlines restrictions on camp...

Canadian Peacekeeping Canadian Peacekeeping is a complicated issue. It involves many able bodies and difficult procedures to ensure people's safety. Peacekeeping plays an enormous role in Canada. Peacekeeping started in Canada, back in 1957, when a Canadian diplomat, Lester B. ...