... closing months of 1937 a new source of stain bore down upon the west coast's racial cleavage. Japan attacked China once again and, in Canada reports of this aggression provoked the first strong outburst of anti-Japanese feeling in a decade. (Ward 459) This "outburst" was just one of many ... spies and military officers living in Canada. In this atmosphere of improvisation and amateurism, many of the available reports by the RCMP and the military on the Japanese Canadians tended to focus on investigation of alleged "unlawful drilling [with weapons]" by male ... Japanese Canadians, repo...

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... physical aggression more than doubled." The fact that a given person sees more than 8000 people die on television before they reach adolescence is horrendous. It is no wonder that many reports show that television gives people a false sense of reality. This is stated in the fact that many programs are now forced to display disclaimers which state, "Do not try this ... of Educational Progress shows a lack of reading skills among students in all age groups, beginning with the reading performance of 9 and 11 year-old children. In addition, a survey by the Book Industry Study Group shows th...

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... effect on voter turnout. Voter turnout has been decreasing steadily as more people have come to the realization that their votes will not necessarily be accounted for. In Jeffrey Simpson's book, The Friendly Dictatorship, the author reveals that "only 61 per cent of eligible Canadians bothered to vote in 2000, the lowest turnout by far since the Second World War" "(Simpson ... further than just representation. Since women and minority groups are receiving the support and attention they deserve in PR, more effort is made to vote. Political scientist G. Bingham Powell Jr. reports that vot...

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... chance. She retired from her magistrate position in 1931 and passed away in 1933 (Cochrane 48). Emily Murphy is best known as feminist activist. As Rosemary Evans comments in the book Women: Changing Canada: "Emily Murphy [was] the woman at the centre of the Persons Case."" (Evans 31) As Canada's first female judge and as the person to lead the Persons ... ). In 1921, miners, from Glace Bay, Cape Breton, had their wages cut drastically. However during the time the government did little to stop and help them, and tired of government reports Macphail travelled to Cape Breton herself and sa...

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... global warming emission levels. As result of such foolhardy methods, meteorologists have seen Canadian winters getting warmer every year for the last 24 years. (5) Dave Phillips, Canada's senior climatologist says "book off or play hooky- when they find great Canadian winter weather because "it wont last long-.(6) As result, now Canadian tourism is also taking hit as ski and recreation areas ... worshipers are still reluctant to care and have little to complain about warmer weather, they also will often forget the heath risks associated with global warming.(7) The Ontario Medical Associ...

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