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With the current minimum wage in Ontario starting off at $11.40/hour it makes it very difficult for people to make a living for themselves, especially those who come with very minimum background of education and is forced to work jobs that are paying as low as minimum wage. Families who are new to the Country that come in as refugees are forced to live in poverty, therefore leading the kids in becoming affiliated with illegal money to help provide themselves and their families with some money.…

rate is .76 percent, with the birth rate at 10.29 births per 1,000 persons. The current death rate is 8.3 deaths per thousand people. There are currently several urban areas in Canada. The major ones are Toronto (Ontario), Montreal (Quebec), Vancouver (British Columbia), Ottawa (Ontario), Calgary (Alberta), and Edmonton (Alberta). The annual rate of change in these urban populations are 1.06 percent.…

Japanese Canadians Who are the Japanese Immigrants? Where are they from? This report will tell you all about the Japanese immigrants and their lifestyle. Let’s start by talking about where they originally came from. The Japanese Canadians are from Japan. They all came from different cities/areas in Japan. The first group of Japanese immigrants came between 1877 and 1900. The first group of Japanese immigrants that came were all men. Their wives and children stayed back in Japan. Since they were…

Through the research I have done thus far, I believe that although Nestle Pure Life water may not be wholly bad, but it definitely supports and showcases many more injustices. I found it interesting how Canada, specifically Ontario is depleting its own water systems in order to make a profit, consumers may be benefiting but in the long run it is very detrimental to the countries ecosystem and sustainability (Public Water For Sale, 2010). By this, I mean that it is evident Nestle…

my sisters and I, as females, to knock down any gender limiting doors in our way, especially through education. With my fathers profession of being a police officer, came a few significant moves for our family, across Ontario. Residing in Northern, Ontario, and Southern, Ontario, rural communities, and suburbs, each move helped me learn how to adapt to new environments, and read the new “culture” I was now living in, adapting accordingly. Even within communities of the same province, culture…

was giving them a bad reputation. Many of the administrators also argued that students that took part in the challenge might have been too young to legally consume alcohol, which led to the Molson Company being in hot water. University of Western Ontario was offended to be in 8th place, owing to the fact that they showed importance and focused on student experience. St. Francis Xavier University and McMaster University expressed that Molson’s approach to getting the students’ attention was…

USports was founded in 1906, and was originally known as the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU). At its inception, only universities from Ontario and Quebec participated in CIAU sport. As more universities from across the country began to incorporate sports into their institutions, management of the CIAU saw an opportunity for the development of university sport growth and expanded their league…

Karla Homolka is among the most notorious criminals (“Karla Leanne Homolka”). She is famous for the plea bargain she made with prosecutors before her trial. She testified against her then husband, Paul Bernardo, in exchange for a 12-year prison sentence ("Homolka's Plea Bargain Revealed”). Little did Crown officials know that she was just as involved as her husband in the rapes and murders of two school girls ("The Karla Homolka Files: A U.S. Perspective on Karla Homolka’s Plea Bargain”). Now…

Introduction Occupational health nurses face a plethora of ethical issues throughout their everyday practice. An obstacle persists when the occupational health nurse faces an ethical issue, in which they are unable to act on their ethical obligations due to a variety of constraints (Canadian Nurses Association, 2003). This phenomenon is also known as ethical distress. Ethical distress is of utmost importance as this can be an expression of a nurses’ sensitivity to the moral aspects of practice,…

Margaret Atwood’s reflections on the short fiction of Alice Munro represent commentary from one Canadian literary great on another. Fittingly, Atwood provides any number of insightful reflections on Munro’s work, each of which could be the basis for further study. I would like to focus briefly on just two of these: sex and sexuality as they are represented in Munro’s works, and Atwood’s observation that in Munro’s works “a thing can be true, but not true, but true nonetheless.” Taken together,…