Abstract This paper looks at how judicial review and the entrenchment of the Charter of Rights in Canada have affected the legal system and the ability of teachers to provide high quality and meaningful education to students. In the final analysis, it is proposed that greater knowledge of the Charter and the relevant laws that affect teachers are the only solutions to the situation.
Abstract This paper focuses on the theories of Innis and McLuhan and how they remain valid with regard to the likely impact of current mass media upon culture and consciousness in Canada. The work of both men, in their emphasis on the past and on some of the universals of the human condition, encourage a view of contemporary reality in a linear or even cyclical context that may be lost, in effect, when drawing too firm a mental line between the Modern and the post-Modern.
Abstract The essay discusses the history of immigration of Chinese to Canada, and focuses on how race and class conflicts have contributed to producing Chinese ghettos in urban Toronto. The essay asserts that Toronto's Chinatown is as much shaped by class and gender, as it is shaped by class and racism.
Abstract This paper is an exploration of poverty in Canada. Issues such as race, ethnicity, immigration and migration are considered in the contexts of rural and urban communities, as well as with regards to gender and class. The argument here is that Canada's transitions in economics and industry have helped to produce an institutionalized underclass who live in poverty and who have limited resources for changing the conditions of their living. This paper further indicates the ways economic and social policy need to elaborate on the needs of the poor if the underclass is to be assisted in ways that can produce a change in the populations who live in poverty.
Abstract This paper is oriented towards Canadian legislation against Internet child pornography and as this general cause has affected federal government policy governing the registration and other regulation of Internet providers and users, in addition to interpretations of criminal offences which pertain to pornography and how they can be investigated.
Abstract This paper is written about residential schools in Canada. These schools are the worst examples of racism and discrimination in Canada history.
Abstract This paper looks at the current state of Pacific Coast salmon fisheries. The unique salmon lifecycle, the plight of the salmon in the face of human destruction of their habitat and over fishing, and the international implications involving Asian, American, Native, and Canadian commercial and recreational fishermen. This analysis extends to the economic tradeoff of short-term employment versus sustaining a species. Creating a sustainable environment is in everyone's best interest, but agreement on how to reach this goal is not easy to achieve. Most important is the threat of extinction of the species. Possible remedies are suggested and their implications highlighted.
Abstract This paper looks at the effect of American culture and influence it has had on Canadian culture not long after the inception of the radio. Today the same trends continue but now with globalization it seems as if Canadian culture has weakened even more.
Abstract This paper looks at two main protagonists from two different books and examines the similarities between these two characters, Vittorio from "Lives of the Saints" by Nino Ricci, and Noah from "Son of Smaller Hero" by Mordecai Richler. The similarities between these two are the pain and tragedy that comes from the estrangement and alienation from one's own community.
Abstract This paper outlines some of the macroeconomic issues in the Canadian political economy. It focuses on employment/unemployment, taxation, investment and job creation, and inflation. Each of these factors is defined and their interrelationships are considered.
Abstract This paper presents a comparison and contrast of the presidential and parliamentary systems of government in terms of their key characteristics as well as their strengths and weaknesses. It finds that, to varying degrees, both systems are concerned with the promotion of accountability, responsibility and efficiency. Each system has a leader, the President and the Prime Minister, respectively, and power is held on the basis of popular support through political constituencies that are generally equal in population. A major difference between these two systems of government is that while the Senate in the American presidential system of government is an important and integral part of the day-to-day functioning of the system, the same cannot be said for the Senate in the Canadian parliamentary system. A major weakness of the American presidential system of government is that the legislative process can be slow and cumbersome.
Abstract This paper will examine the topic of strikes and grievances in Canada. This will include an outline of how grievances work, the process that is involved, as well as the positive and negative aspects of grievances.
Abstract This paper summarizes and critiques the article "Sexism, Racism and Canadian Nationalism." In this paper, Ng reviews analyses of the early formation of the Canadian State and the ways race, gender and class were incorporated by elite classes and state-based institutions on the basis of perceived white superiority. Whiteness is, historically, a paternalistic relation of domination; thus, the State is constantly setting up structural forces (e.g., immigration policy) that constitute sites of struggle and conflict. It is here, in struggle and conflict, Ng argues, that the relations can be understood as historical processes of production and reproduction.
Abstract This paper talks about a Hong Kong immigrant's experience in Canada. This paper looks at the university experience in Canada and family adaptation to a new culture.
