Manitoba

Montreal is a city that has special meeting space that various peoples among different cultures, religious backgrounds, ethnicities and languages can encounter. Specifically, Montreal is a perfect historical city that illustrates Mary Louis Pratt’s concept of a contact zone. The contact zone is where social spaces (i.e. cities) is in contact with two or more cultures that could clash and interact with each other through ideas, identity, class, culture and politics. The historical context can be…

taken away by the white settlers. Louis Riel, leader of the Rebellions fought against the federal government to protect those rights for the First Nations. This act of violence impacted Canada through ethnic divisions by creating a province called Manitoba for the Metis with a total of 600,000 acres of farmland for peace. In such a way by isolating them in one area. However, the Metis were still unsatisfied due to the cost of the CPR, which led to the Battle of Duck Lake and Batoche. As a…

National Energy Program introduced (1980) In order to combat the rising gas prices and renewed oil crisis, the Liberal government created the National Energy Program or NEP in 1980. This program was aimed towards protecting Canadians against the rising oil prices, making Canada able to produce its own oil and reducing Canada’s consumption of oil. Funding was provided to Canadian petroleum companies in order for them to be able to drill for oil in sites that looked promising. These sites included…

who was born on October 22, 1844, on the Red River Settlement in Saint-Boniface. Riel was fluent in both English and French. During his lifetime, Riel achieved many great successes and inspired many people. Riel was a Métis leader, the founder of Manitoba and the National Métis Committee, and was also one of the primary figures in the Red River Resistance. Ultimately, Riel was executed in Regina, Saskatchewan on November 16, 1885, after he was found guilty of high treason. Sir John A.…

Since police officers have large amounts of discretion, they are held accountable for the actions that they do. For example, a Manitoba officer of the royal Canadian mounted police was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Steven Campbell (Taylor, 2017, p.1). “Const. Abram Letkeman was also charged with criminal negligence causing death, reckless discharge of a firearm, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.” (Taylor,2017, p.1). Various…

took information on students from three different school districts; nine cohorts from districts one and two, and six cohorts from district three. All of the data they used in their study came from the Population Health Research Data Repository in Manitoba. In district one and three, full-day kindergarten was implemented slowly, taking about three and four years respectfully to have it implemented into all schools. Also, in district one, full-day kindergarten was only introduced to schools that…

My group and I propose that our school should add American Sign Language as another foreign language option to choose over Spanish. I believe that we should implement some ASL in the younger children's curriculum, as in an immersion school. The students would keep up their Spanish curriculum in addition to ASL. Once they get into 5th grade, we will allow them the option to continue learning Spanish, or to continue ASL as their only foreign language. The learning of American Sign Language is…

all forms of discrimination based on gender identity, The Huffington Post details. The approval of the transgender bill in Quebec is similar to the reform implemented in Alberta, British Columbia, Labrador, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Manitoba, The Montreal Gazette notes. Olie Pullen, 13, was born Oliver and has struggled with the issue in school. When she starts Grade 8 this fall, she…

rights, and were isolated geographically. This affected them by having no presence in economic competition. Individuals presently still contribute to this social problem by saying offensive statements due to historic crutches. A teacher from Winnipeg, Manitoba had posted on Facebook “They have contributed NOTHING to the development of Canada. Just standing with their hand out. Get to work, tear the treaties and shut the FK up already. Why am I on the hook for their cultural support?” (Maclean’s)…

Mireille Paquet’s article “The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada” published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science issue. 47, September 2014. Speaks about the institutional changes between 1990 - 2010 in the Canadian governments immigration and integration of policies between the federal and provincial government. Paquet is a professor in the social science department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and has written many articles regarding immigration. Her…