Abstract As a resource-based economy dependent on export markets, the effects of a global economic system are potentially very marked for Canada. If a global economic system comes hand in hand with free trade, liberalized financial institutions and high mobility of capital and labor, Canada's probable outcome can be predicted by contrasting the effects of a global economy with those of the regional NAFTA arrangement. Using this yardstick of measurement, Canada has much to gain from a more global economy. This paper will further elaborate this point.
Abstract Canadian economic history since Confederation can be divided into three broad categories. The era of the National Policy, the era of the Keynesian welfare state and, in the last twenty years the socio-political environment has shift hard right with 'neo-liberalism.' This paper briefly summarizes, delineates and differentiates these three central periods of Canadian economic history.
Abstract The purpose of this paper will be to examine the social conditions during the Great Depression and the government's response, with particular emphasis being placed on Western Canada.
Abstract During the 1990s Canadian real estate, residential and commercial, endured a prolonged slump. After a decade of rapidly escalating prices and increasing speculation the market collapsed in 1989. Across Canada prices fell by as much as 30 percent. Toronto was one of the markets hardest hit. However, it has also been one of the quickest to recover and its recovery has been extremely strong in comparison to other major metropolitan regions. This paper identifies four factors in the recovery of the Toronto real estate market: The city's quality of life, its strong economy, its location and its continuing appeal to immigrants.
Abstract Free trade with the United States has not been of net benefit to Canadians. This paper points to how harder aspects of the adjustment to free trade in Canada have been dismissed as mere 'growing pains' of adjustment. It is emphasized that the 1980s Debate did not really grapple with possible detrimental effects as these were pushed to the background in order to ratify a most questionable agreement.
Abstract In 1996 Donald Marshall was convicted of fishing illegally. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court successfully on the basis of Marshall's Treaty Rights as a Mi'kmaq. This discussion outlines the facts surrounding the Marshall case, the Supreme Court decision on appeal and the case's role as a precedent. It outlines the implications of the Marshall case for Constitutional Law and Treaty rights across Canada.
Abstract In the novel "Disappearing Moon Caf?" by author Sky Lee, the nature of the hamartia is found within the inability of the characters in the Wong family to reconcile the conflict that occurs between aspects of their Canadian and their Chinese lives. This is most highly manifested in the character of Suzie Wong, who apparently dies from an illness that is brought on through the accumulated stress provided to her through being asked to conform to both American and Chinese traits and failing to satisfy the demands of either. The hamartia of the Wong family is therefore found in their inability to accept both Canadian and Chinese lifestyle traits and their failure to do so becomes the tragic flaw that results in Suzie Wong's undoing. This paper explores this topic in order to better define how the hamartia impacted the Wong family's personal growth and prevented them from truly embracing a combined Canadian and Chinese heritage.
Analyzes the ways in which Canadian social welfare legislation has reinforced the concept of separate spheres and thus treated women disadvantageously.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 2 sources, 2002, $ 62.95
Abstract In the years from 1945 to 1980, it is generally asserted that the Canadian government was engaged in the construction of a Keynesian welfare state. However, at the same time, these reforms, products of the dominant culture itself, acted to reinforce and institutionalize social and class structure. This paper looks at how these reforms worked to the disadvantage of Canadian women.
Abstract In this essay, the theories of Karl Marx are applied to Canadian contexts as a way to interpret the importance of an education. This paper provides a sociological analysis of Marx's theories and offers an analysis of these theories as a way to explain how education is implied in Marxism. The implication of education is then connected with both class struggle and Canadian social structures.
Abstract This party examines the reasons for the party's success throughout the twentieth century. It becomes evident that Liberal party leaders succeeded in finding a compromise between French and English Canada. Today, however, it appears that the present Liberal Prime Minister is leaving the path of previous liberal leaders in that he is dismantling the welfare state.
Abstract Summary: This paper introduces a variety of published work pertaining to subjects of the Canadian mass media. A tendency that is noted, in different places, is that of Canadians assuming that their media are free in comparison with the mass media influences of the United States, or the United Kingdom, for example. However, as is mentioned, the Canadian media seem to be shaped by their environment, and the environment beyond Canada to a significant degree.
Abstract The objective of this paper is to evaluate what type of impact judicial review has had on Canada's representative democracy by tracing its evolution. Although it is tempting to focus closely on the more controversial and obvious relationship between judicial review and the Charter, this paper will endeavor to highlight the implications of binding adjudication on issues dealing with the distribution of legislative power since 1867.
Abstract This essay discusses victimless crime. The paper examines how there are certain "crimes" connected to such activities as prostitution and drugs that do not have victims. Nonetheless, Canada still has certain laws in legislation that prohibit victimless crime and have certain penalties for those engaging in it.
Abstract This essay evaluates Yee's paper from the perspective of a Chinese female student who has immigrated to Canada. This review of Yee's article states, "Yee's paper will prove of interest to various readers interested in women's issues, the experience of Chinese newcomers in Canada at a particular time. As a contribution to feminist perspectives, the paper is most helpful in fully explaining the sense of difference that is felt by some Chinese women and, of course, in its most interesting comparisons between the Chinese countryside as visited by Yee in young adulthood, and the very different reality of the Toronto that has been home to her for most of her life."
