Canada Health Act

In 2004, Canada and the United States implemented the Safe Third Country Agreement – a bilateral agreement modeled after the (then) Dublin Convention of the European Union (Macklin, 2005; Arbel, 2013). As a vital bilateral agreement between Canada and the United States, has the Safe Third Country Agreement caused more harmful implications surrounding refugee claimants than beneficial? Indeed, the Safe Third Country Agreement has caused adverse implications for refugee claimants, as a multitude…

Before significant change in the Indigenous incarnation system, there needs to be a shift in the jurisdictional control of Indigenous affairs. There are many different Indigenous nation that exist in Canada with “diverse governmental traditions, territories and aspirations” (Hogg 192) James Tully’s argument for renegotiating treaty-federalist relations is a potentially viable solution of a multitude of nations that would remain flexible and accommodating unique governmental traditions. The…

the criminal justice system is a topic of controversy in both public and academic spheres. The imprisonment of ethnic minorities at a higher rate than their White counterpart occurs in most western nation (La Prairie, 1999; Tonry, 1995, 1997). In Canada, the overly represented groups are Aboriginals (First Nations, Inuit, and Metis) and Black Canadians relative to their incidence in the general population (Roberts & Stenning, 2001; Owusu-Bempah & Wortley, 2013). The over-representation of…

Canada is viewed as a land of immigrants, disregarding aboriginal peoples, and yet Canada has a history of racism. The Chinese entered Canada during different times and were greeted with different extremes depending on the social context at that point of time. The Chinese were welcomed during the gold rush in British Columbia as well as when needing labour to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Then restrictive policies started to be placed such as the increasing tax and finally in 1923 the ban…

Since then, Canada has been home by many people migrating from different aspect of the world, and known as the most diverse country in world as of now. Despite of that, Canada have been through a lot of challenge and acceptance to able to consolidate each individual and make a strong and peaceful country. From past to present, the Canadian government is still dealing with a lot of issues in relation to build a unite society, sadly there are still some conditions that influence many ethic groups…

Three Founding Nations When asked, “Who founded Canada?” the tendency is for people to reply with the notion that there are two founders: the French and English. It is due to negligence that people overlook the first residents of this land, our land; the land of the aboriginal peoples. My people where from the Plains land in the west, where we hunted buffalo and lived in tepees. It was us, along with other Native groups who were here before any Frenchman, Briton, or even Spaniard arrived here.…

They wanted the same rights to education, health care, and many other benefits like hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering in the public eye as the Status Indians were given in Ottawa. In the end the 400,000 non-status Indians were granted the same rights as status First Nations from Ottawa. Betty Ann Lavallée is the National Chief Congress of the Aboriginal Peoples say’s, “Today's decision will mark a new relationship with the government of Canada; Let's be honest. It's not going to change…

Introduction and Literature Review In this lab report, I will compare the experience of soldiers during World War I and the Afghanistan war and the similarities and differences of their experiences on the front line. On the one hand, World War 1 is an international war which occurred between 1914 and 1918 where the Central Powers ,Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, fight the Allies, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and United States in 1917. This war ends with the victory of the Allies…

In the twenty-first century many of us who live in Canada have become used to the idea of female independence and freedom from male authority. We see women in powerful positions such as the heads of corporations, or provinces, or universities, and few think of such women being hindered by their husbands in any way. However, although this is the case for many women today, it is not the case for all of them, and they have not always had the freedom to fully express their own identities and…

In her article, Manitoba First Nations children's advocate fasting to raise awareness, retrieved from http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-first-nations-children-s-advocate-fasting-to-raise-awareness-1.2575655, Puxley (2015) sheds light on Manitoba’s “broken child-welfare system” as she interviews Cora Morgan, a First Nations children’s advocate. (para. 1). Morgan explains her plan to “go without food or water, along with five other women” for two days, in protest of the injustices associated…