Pierre Omidyar

Nationalism Source Interpretation - Eric Cope The author of source I is stating the thought that if you accomplish something and no one knows about it it will be forgotten completely. Stories, songs, etc leave behind a legacy. An entity to remember something that has passed. The same goes for nations, before the writing and the internet the only way to pass on a record was with a story. If no one was told about the occurrence it would fade off into nothingness. Whereas if told with a story even

also placed into the internment camps. During the october Crisis Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau used the War Measures Act to be able to arrest people without having to give proof of wrongdoing. He did this because he was searching for members of the terrorist group, Front de Liberation du Quebec, because they had kidnapped, “British trade commissioner James Cross, and kidnapped and murdered Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte”(Smith). Trudeau used the Act for a good reason, but it was still a serious

Since confederation, Canada has been a nation that is completely different to the rest of the world. Citizens embrace different cultures, religions and ethnicities as their own. When a civic nation is born there are always going to be discrepancies; not everyone is united under one idea. Therefore, loyalties begin to contend with each other which has resulted in the Canada we live in today. Separatists are amongst the majority. Quebec, The Maritimes, Cascadia, The West, all want to be independent

The Tar Sands Disaster is a piece of content written by Thomas Homer-Dixon. His purpose on writing the piece was to help bring awareness on the potential environmental damages that are caused by tar sands production in Canada. Thomas explains that Canada is using pipelines (specifically the Keystone XL pipeline) to export tar sands to the United States, and while it does help the economy financially, it harms the environment. Thomas hopes for his readers to go against the tar sands industry, and

Ruaa 9W Oct.30 /2016 Senators should be Elected “When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty” (Theodore Roosevelt/Google Images.) The Senate plays an important role in the Canadian government. Canada's Senate today is made up of a variety of backgrounds such as different cultures and religions. It also includes both men and women. The Senate looks at the different issues that individuals or groups might have. They look at the children

Canada, orginally consisted of disenfrachised French-Canadians and Cathloics in 19th century. Previously a centrist party that holds great values on free market and personal responsibility, Liberal has changed to a left-winged party when former leader Pierre Trudeau advocated large and activist government can improve social and economical issues in Canada.       The Conservatives were merged from two parties: the Progessive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance. Under the leading of former leader

For most Quebecers, November 15, 1976 serves as a memorable date that triggered an array of effects that have come to define today’s Quebec. The date marks the Quebec general election in which the Parti Québécois (PQ) led by René Lévesque, defeated the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa (Gossage & Little, 2012, p. 265). The victory caused many repercussions and reforms in rural zoning, auto protection, and laws on political party funding (Dickinson & Young, 2008, p. 333). Most notably,

Prime Minister’s Problem: Justin Trudeau’s Conflict of Interest A free private vacation to the Bahamas with your family and friends, sounds almost too good to be true, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently found this out first hand. After returning from his luxurious holiday on Aga Khan’s private Bahamas island in January 2017, the media outlets were booming with many articles criticizing his actions and divulging the public with the Conflict of Interest Act. One passage in particular had

During the 2015 Canadian federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party took policy positions that were furthest to the political left compared to the other two main parties, the Conservative Party and the New Democratic Party (NDP). In an effort to appeal to traditional liberal supporters as well as voters who traditionally identify with the NDP, the Liberal Party adopted a reform liberal economic agenda and social democratic policies. Conversely, Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the NDP

Nowadays, different governments meet with the problem of “Americanization” of their countries’ cultures and lifestyle and they try their best to mitigate this tendency and prevent future “invasions” of American culture. The aim of this essay is to identify main problems and possible solutions over protecting local cultures from the impacts of globalization through The Canadian Magazine Dispute. I think that national authenticity is a vital part of each country. The U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute