Canada Pension Plan

As time has progressed, Canada as a whole as improved in accepting minorities. The nation is known as a melting pot and it certainly earns that name with the multiple cultures and religions that make up a large portion of the population. However, even with the large melting pot that Canada is, racial profiling is prevalent in Canada’s society as a whole. In general, it is noticeable that racial profiling has been on the decrease as time has passed and is only getting rarer, and the Canadian…

British Columbia as it is in alignment with my skills, experience and career objective and I will be working on the subject that I am truly passionate about. It would be a great honour to be part of the one of the cleanest electricity producers in Canada and North America. Definitely, BC Hydro is performing remarkable and astonishing work when it comes to designing new hydroelectric projects as the Site C Clean Energy Project on the Peace River, improving reliability of transmission systems by…

Many people identify Canadian identity as a hockey nation that enjoys maple syrup and beavers on coins, but the way I see Canada as a place where people come from different parts of the world to live together in harmony. Canada is one of the youngest countries but the oldest democracy without a civil war in 153 years of history. Canada does not have an ancient heritage compared to the United Kingdom, Japan, India, Mexico, China, etc. But it has one of the biggest multicultural societies.…

What is the environmental cost of drilling? Do we dare touch such a fragile ecosystem that could never resurrect itself just because “gas prices are too high?” Is mankind so greedy and superficial that we have to take away one the most vast and unique areas of the world just for our own benefit? These are some of the many argumentative questions rational, environmentally aware individuals are asking after a significant amount oil has been recorded under the layers of the Arctic National Wildlife…

Historical events within Canada, as well as many other countries, are frequently portrayed from a one sided perspective. We like to view ourselves and our fellow Canadians as kind and noble, when that may not always be the case. Wendy S. Hesford and Brenda Jo. Brueggemann explore this idea of seeing our country in only the positive light, stating that “the ways in which we remember major events in our history can also mask the history of racial and ethnic discrimination” (160). Canadians are…

representation of women in politics reflects the value our society places on the status of women (Trimble & Arscott, 2003) and as long as women in politics face these challenges, challenges restricting women’s voices will continue to exist for all women in Canada. Women in Canadian politics face the challenge of being underrepresented at all levels of government and in leadership positions. Trimble & Arscott (2003) argue that if no gender bias existed in our society it would be expected that…

question "Has Canada's history made you proud to be a Canadian?" And that smile means yes, I am proud to be a Canadian, due to Canada having so much effect over the years of the 20th century, which I will point out from my GREAT CANADIAN SELFIE. The first prop is the outfit and the mustache, in which I am supposed to look like an immigrant, who just immigrated to Canada, because of Canada's 1980 immigration act, which added five new classes, which are people applying by themselves, family,…

I am European And I grieve Though my direct lineage does not include colonizing Canada, I am guilty The tears come My heart breaks and tells me that this is all wrong and I grieve some more. I grieve for my brothers and sisters of the First Nations Their history is a culture that uses a rolling tongue that remembers everything and unites a community by the careful telling of the journeys of the First Nations since the birth of the world. Every word Every moment Every feeling…

which also ended up hurting the Native Americans. One of the wars was the Seven Years’ War which set up America's independence. France Finds a Foothold in Canada (Pg. 89) How and why did France begin to colonize Canada? In what ways did New France differ politically from its neighboring British colonies? France began to colonize to Canada because King Louis XIV took deep interest in overseas colonies. The French landed in what is now Quebec and Samuel de Champlain made an alliance with the…

Many people who oppose the idea, because they believe that the Keystone XL pipeline will bring up many spills than any other pipeline. In the Environmental Analysis of the Keystone XL Project articles it talks about how there are data it calculated by the Department of State (DOS) there would be 1.8 to 1.183 spills that will be bigger 2,100 gallons per year. Also it states, “The existing Keystone Oil Pipeline system has experienced 14 spills since the operation in June 2010…of those spills,…