Justin Trudeau

Many factors that led to World War 1, like nationalism, competition for territory, military rivalry, and alliances, are still causing conflicts today. One example pertaining to the issue of competition for territory that is prevalent today is the issue of arctic sovereignty. The countries who are involved in this issue are Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway, and Denmark. All of these countries are anxious to claim the rights of the arctic waters mainly because of the rich oils and natural…

This opinion piece, written by Senator Leo Housakos and published earlier this year in the Montreal Gazette, talked about the Senate’s attempt to improve the connection between this parliamentary institution and the Canadian citizens. As stated in the article, the Senate tried to deepen the connection between citizens and the institution by cultivating a better communication amongst them. According to Senator Housakos, transparency and accessibility go hand in hand with good governance, meaning…

it’ toll as a preventative, then possibly we can save billions of dollars before it is too late. The Government of Canada has become cautious of the economic disaster that climate change could bring. So following this new agenda, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently attended the Paris Climate Conference on December 21, 2015. All of the 196 attending countries came to a consensus to reduce emissions, and prevent World temperatures from increasing over 2 degrees on average. This is a good…

Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for an early election with the strong belief that his party, the Conservatives, would win. However, he did not take into account the fact that there were numerous structural and institutional constraints, which consequently resulted in a loss for his party in the recent 2015 federal elections . Canada is a parliamentary system, which is a democratic government that is dictated by the legislature (the parliament) alongside the executive power, making the…

gender parity with 25 women and 28 men elected as members of the ruling NDP (Women in Canadian politics, 2018). Alberta’s Premier, Rachel Notley, has appointed a cabinet with equal representation from women and male politicians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also has appointed a fully gender balanced Cabinet, and women make up 47.5% of the appointed Senate (Women, 2018). However,…

Since the 1990s, Canadian public and academic discourse has largely framed young people as apathetic and disengaged from civic life. The perceived lack of civic engagement among youth has led to the proliferation of various programs and initiatives, both state-led and community-based, which aim to overcome and address the perceived issue of young people’s lack of participation (Caron, Raby, Mitchell, Thewissen-LeBlanc, & Prioletta, 2016, pp. 3-4). As Caron et al. (2016, p. 4) note, many of these…

their feeling that marijuana should no longer be illegal in Canada. It has been one of the most highly debated topics in Canada and recently seems like there are more people for legalization than against. Just last year in the Canadian election Justin Trudeau was elected in by the Canadian population. One of Trudeau’s goals was to legalize the use of marijuana once he became Prime Minister of the country. So have majority of Canadians jumped on the mainstream idea and are for legalizing…

It was exactly twelve in the morning and Gwyn was tapping away at her cellphone keyboard. The wifi in the white house surprisingly sucked and it was annoying. She huffed and rolled over in her queen sized bed, looking around for anything to do. Her dark hair and skin perfectly contrasted with her white bed sheets. The fifteen year old sat up abruptly; something was wrong. It the same feeling a mother gets when they know their children are in danger that the young daughter of the POTUS was…

The Book of Negros is an invigorating Canadian miniseries that has portrayed the perilous journey of an African woman, starting with her abduction in modern day Mali, then moving on to her enslavement in North America, and winding-up with her return to Africa as a freed woman. The show concludes with her going to London to promote the Abolition Movement with her personal account of the misfortunes of slavery. This woman, Aminata Diallo, is the protagonist of The Book, directed by Damon…

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.…