Edmonton Journal

This essay discusses the aboriginal protest against tar sand projects in Canada based on two academic journals written by McCreary and Balfour respectively. In this paper, I will focus on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project in Canada, which is mentioned and analyzed in both journals. Enbridge is a energy transport company that has proposed the Northern Gateway Project, which is a pipeline that connect Alberta and Pacific coast of British Columbia in order to transport bitumen extracted from…

kitchen and household cleaners, on these poor critters. These animals are also used to test experimental compounds, as reported by Ian Sample, a reporter from The Guardian, an animal rights magazine. As stated by Bif Naked, a reporter for the Edmonton Journal, it is still legal to poison, blind, and kill innocent animals in the U.S. These terrified creatures have chemicals and other potentially dangerous substances forced upon them and shoved down their throats and then they left to suffer for…

Technology is a big part of the world today everything revolves around technology. Technology changes every time an inventor gets a new idea to help society or make a new upgrade. Technology is now even in automobiles such that one can connect their phones to the car speakers and play music, internet can be routed into an automobile so that the automobile is a hot-spot and you can connect your phone to the Wi-Fi. The interest I have to technology is that my goal is to become a software developer…

The Arctic. The last available source of untapped wealth in the form of natural resources Earth has to offer, and every country who can lay claim to it will try. The diminishing ice surrounding the North Pole means that it is now open to exploration and geological mapping to countries with an Arctic border, such as Canada, Denmark, Russia, Norway, and the United States. Every one of these countries are beginning to establish a presence in the Arctic (Smith, 2010, p. 651-652) due to the U.S.…

From Room 93 to Badlands, much had changed in artist Halsey’s career. For over nine months in 2014, the singer only had one single called “Ghost,” a song about loving someone who was toxic to you. In early October, she released a five track EP called Room 93, which told the experiences of a few youth that affected their day-to-day lives. It only took a year, from sleeping at her manager’s parents’ house to having her own apartment in L.A., for her to be inspired to make this album. On August 28,…

The mainstream media holds an important role in the distribution of information and the construction of criminality and the criminal justice system. Public perceptions are formed by journalists and news reporter’s portrayals of victims and criminals in the news media. They focus on the drama of the crime story rather than the content, resulting in the skewing of reality. Within the context of Canada, a researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal revealed that 95% of news reporters use the…

Lewthwaite would need to prove that it was a worthy financial investment. Finally, the committee needed to consider the length of time required to establish a new database because most committee members believed that conclusive information on customer behavior could be drawn only from a minimum of 500,000 members. Further, although they thought that an investment in such a program could be largely beneficial for Cineplex, if implemented poorly, the organization’s image and its ability to…

Statistics Canada reports that in 2017, the predicted life expectancy for the total Canadian population is projected to be 79 years for men and 83 years for women. Among the Aboriginal Population, the Inuit have the lowest life expectancy of 64 years for men and 73 years for women. Metis and First Nations people have a life expectancy of 73-74 years for men and 78-80 years for women.( 2015-11-30) There is a fifteen to five years life expectancy in male and ten to three years life expectancy for…

Insufficient Support to First-Nations By: Tristan Maybee #200350618 17/11/2014 First-Nation Discrimination in Canada Introduction In today’s modern society there are many minority groups that have faced and currently face racial discrimination. Groups such as the First-Nations face these social problems every day and the government doesn’t provide enough help. These problems however are getting worse and not better, although the government gives millions of dollars and provides…