Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

To many people marijuana is considered to have medicinal benefits while others believe it’s a gateway drug. Some consider it to have a “high potential for abuse which may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence” ("Resources - Controlled Substance Schedules", 2016). That may not be the case as marijuana possession was criminalized in the Confidential Restricted List in 1923 under the Narcotics Drug Act Amendment Bill only because some “business people and clergy” were upset by the…

Introduction In the book, Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries Into Indigenous Deaths in Custody by Sherene H. Razack. Razack talks about the Canadian approach to Indigenous people and the different forms in which they are mistreated in the Canadian Justice System. Indigenous people in Canada have been viewed as “less of a person” than the normal white civilian. European Settlers have been trying to assimilate the Aboriginal community into the “white way of life” since they took over…

World War II: The Four Freedoms Because the United States had been supporting isolationism and were creating and supporting non-interventionist groups, such as the America First Committee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt it was time for a change in America's stance on the involvement of war. To do so, he delivered the Four Freedoms Speech on January 6, 1941. The Four Freedom Speech had been addressed to Congress in effort to move the nation away from the foreign policy of neutrality.…

The truth can also be attained through discrediting a false opinion. There is value in being disproved for the person whose opinion is false. To explain, to believe with one hundred percent certainty that one is right is to believe that one is “infallible”, or, incapable of being wrong and this notion may lead to the halt of growth for a society ( Mill 53). Without having the ability to individually form opinions one might be inclined to simply follow the ideas and opinions of others and…

The case of Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc. v. Saskatchewan, 2005 SCC 13, [2005] 1S.C.R. 188 is considered very controversial as it questions the national public health concern that is caused by the smoke of tobacco and can affect our youth in a negative way. What this cases focuses on is s. 6 of the Saskatchewan Tobacco Control act and how by the virtue of the paramountcy doctrine is inoperative due to the fact of s. 30 of the federal tobacco Act. The doctrine of paramountcy establishes that…

Community Policing Introduction Community policing is a strategy that promotes the use of partnerships with the public and police to work together. In order to solve problems and it uses techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime. Collaborative partnerships between law enforcement agencies, individuals, and other organizations, they serve will help in the development of solutions and increase…

I. Physician-assisted suicide, under various names and colloquial definitions, has been a documented ethical issue for centuries – not to mention an undocumented ethical issue since the hypothetical dawn of life. By common understanding, physician-assisted suicide is death either directly or indirectly permitted or carried out by a physician. In simple terms, an “out” is provided. For this reason, it is often associated with chronic pain or terminal illness. Suicide where the doctor in charge…

develop different perceptions of women’s gender over time and the impact on their lives. Sports such as biking, baseball and hockey demonstrate how sports determine what gender is for women. In the 1880’s bicycle racing was very popular in large Canadian cities. However women were not allowed the same privilege has men little more than ride bikes at all. The privilege of biking was not allowed for women because it contradicted the meaning of women’s gender. According to the doctrine of…

Introduction Every morning we open our eyes, instinctively turn off the alarm clock, we prepare coffee ... We make some more monotonous actions, which always ends with locking the door. We run out into the streets, rushing to work or to study. There are always a lot of people around us. we encounter some in the subway, at work and with totally different people, we drink coffee or watch a movie. Each of these people is unique in its own way. Everyone has his own character, habits, behavior. But,…

benefits (D. D., L. G., & Meisner, A, 2013, pg. 3). Contract jobs and wage earning employees are an example of this rising issue. Contingent jobs also fall under the same category. They fill permanent job needs but are not given permanent employee rights. According to a report, “precarious employment has increased by nearly 50% in the last 20 years” (D. D., L. G., & Meisner, A, 2013, pg. 4). The increasing numbers of employees is very upsetting because in todays world there is a lot competition…